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A comment on Show HN: Voyager 1 could've lasted MUCH longer. Parent comment
I’m not relying on the radiation to power it.
But rather, it’s own decay process.
That’s what they used.
The slower it decays, the more you’d need,
But the longer it decays, the longer it’s powered.
Which is why plutonium seemed so perfect.
But, we simply would’ve needed a little more time,
And it’d have been done,
With radium.
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I’m not relying on the radiation to power it.
But rather, it’s own decay process.
That’s what they used.
The slower it decays, the more you’d need,
But the longer it decays, the longer it’s powered.
Which is why plutonium seemed so perfect.
But, we simply would’ve needed a little more time,
And it’d have been done,
With radium.