Feeling guilty about using my #ZSA#Voyager keyboard more than my #Moonlander on some days while I can't even type my account password on the macOS login screen with it.
Good news for the 47-year-old and 22.5-light-hour-away #Voyager1: #NASA sent a “poke” instruction and managed to get back a dump from the Flight Data System. Now they’re diffing it against a dump received before the #spacecraft’s Telemetry Modulation Unit started spewing a stuck pattern to Earth three months ago.
This is a cool feature: you can dedicate 1 key per layer to tell the keyboard to stay on that layer until you press the key again.
With small boards and many layers, this is a more economic alternative than using layer toggle keys and momentary or one-shot layer toggles together. I currently do that on my #zsa#Voyager with the movement and numbers layer. Having a key to hold-to-switch and then lock, that sounds way better.
Several months (years?) ago I began my #StarTrek watch through with #Voyager. I started off really strong but ended up watching only about an episode a week. I'm happy to report that last night the crew of Voyager finally made it back to Earth and I have now seen every episode of a classic Star Trek series. On to #DS9!
Taken on #ValentinesDay 1990, the Pale Blue Dot: Planet Earth, taken by Voyager 1 from 6 billion km away, as it prepared to head out of our solar system after exploring Saturn & Jupiter.
34 years ago, on Feb 14, 1990, Voyager 1 took this image of the "Pale Blue Dot" from 6 billion km away, minutes before its cameras were shut off forever.
Carl Sagan, who played a key role in the mission wrote -
"To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
34 years later, how well are we doing on these 2 counts? How can we do better?
Here is Carl Sagan unveiling the Pale Blue Dot image on June 6, 1990 and eloquently describing what that image meant for humanity.
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
The "Pale Blue Dot" image was part of the "Family Portrait" set of images taken by Voyager 1 on Feb 14, 1990.
Taken from a vantage point 6 billion km away and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic, this mosaic of 60 frames captured 6 planets - Jupiter, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
J'en enfin reçu et configuré mon clavier de chez ZSA c'est un mécanique à touches plates, split, orthogonal en 60%, ultra programmable et portable... Et ben c'est génial (et les coulurs servent vraiment à qqch ici : ça indique le rôle des touches selon la "couche" active.