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Re:Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth by Rebelgecko on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:14PM (#38649370)
In addition to what other people mentioned (if you design something to have a 99.99% chance of lasting x years, it'll probably last some multiple of x), a lot of failures follow what's called a bathtub curve (visual depiction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve#/media/File%3A...).

Once you can make something work for 1 day, you're past the most dangerous phase.

Re:Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth by WalterBright on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:53PM (#38650175)
It's the same with people. If you can make it past gestation, birth, and age 10, you're pretty good to go until 80, when everything falls apart.