A closer look
Your smart fridge has vastly more computing power than the hunk of metal currently representing humanity to the cosmos. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is zooming through interstellar space billions of miles away, operating on less storage memory than a low-resolution JPEG of a cat. NASA engineers have to actively overwrite old data just to give the probe new instructions, proving that actual deep-space exploration relies less on sci-fi quantum processing and more on extreme technological hoarding.
