stackyFACTSWhen solar panels are useless in deep space, engineers just shove a glowing lump of plutonium into a metal box and capture the raw thermal heat. It is basically an eternal campfire that powers deep-space probes by aggressively refusing to cool down.
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When solar cells were first invented, they were so laughably expensive that absolutely nobody on Earth could justify bolting them to their roof. The only…
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