There's something very beautiful about Voyager's journey so far.

I hope one day when we're a true interstellar species we'll still keep tabs on it. The data may not be useful anymore, but it would be cool to imagine a year 3000 society with a little "Look at where Voyager is now :)" tool that you can see its path and where humans have colonized by comparison.

But what about the gravity of the Death Star? Wouldn’t the trash just land back onto the Death Star if they decided to release it into space?

The day I cancelled was May 19, 2020 and should've been yours too.

I wonder how much the rotation speed really matters. It comes down to the tensile strength of the material required to hold everything together I suppose but most metals should be able to handle 1g just fine. Once it's rotating you don't need much energy to keep it going, just enough to overcome any frictional losses from whatever interfaces happen to be required.

As others have pointed out, cryptographic authentication is very hard to bootstrap if you simply loose your device.

Just last month my missus cracked the glass of her iPhone. Apple repaired it under AppleCare, which is great… except… that they didn’t tell her that the “glass repair” entails them replacing the guts of the phone and wiping it in the process.

Apple iPhone backups don’t contain cryptographic secrets like eSIMs!

She got stuck in a loop where she couldn’t activate her eSIM because that needed her email, but her email needed MS Authenticator, which she couldn’t activate without an SMS.

She had to drive to the Telco with a pile of photo ID to reissue her eSIM. Her bank account got locked in the process despite the password being correct because of some sort of phone hardware lock.

This took days to fix and multiple in-person visits to various organisations. If this had happened while overseas on holiday, she would have been screwed.

Times have changed.

Your entire digital identity is now a smart card in your phones

That Smart Card is either a SIM card or an onboard TPM chip, but in any event if you lose it, you may as well be dead as far as anyone else is concerned.

Passkeys make this much worse. At least if you still have a physical SIM you can transfer it from any phone to any other phone.

Passkeys are not cross-vendor transferable!

Run away screaming. Don’t believe the hype. Wait until the vendors get their act together and come up with a solution for transfer and recovery.