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>>belter+(OP)
It’s so inspiring when you see how these things are just built to last.

quote: “In the past, engineers have compared keeping the probes operational to keeping an old car running. The tech is severely outdated, yet it keeps ticking over – a trend often seen in the spacecraft of past decades.”

At some point us humans will probably simply have forgotten how to maintain them.

>>alex_s+O5
You should read "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster. Also, "Pump Six" from "Pump Six and Other Stories" will also do fantastic job of diving into this "forgetting how to maintain them" reality.

>>bayind+b6
Pump Six really nails that feeling of "this thing we don't really understand keeps filling the log with warnings we don't know what to do about, let's ignore them and pray it just keeps working."

Any similarities with the real world are surely coincidental.

>>the_af+Th
Many apps have warning/errors that are undecipherable from the very beginning, let alone 20 years later.

Or only make sense when looking into source code that is long gone

>>ilyt+Lr
The worst is when the log line is constructed in a way that makes it really hard to find the source. Source code file name and line number is ideal but a tag like on Android auffices.