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NASA temporarily loses contact with V'ger (arstechnica.com)

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The Voyagers were launched nearly half a century ago.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand it doesn't really matter, but why do that? V'ger. You've saved typing 2 characters net. To what end? I hate it.

[–] Chaser@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It's the... "Villain"? It's got a giant b hole that Spock flies into

[–] MrZigZag@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

And it isn't even a very good reference since VGER started out as Voyager 6.