Science, Time, and Spirit

Goodbye to the Tech That Died in 2025 - YouTube When Companies Kill Products You Paid For: The Great Tech Shutdown of 2025 TL;DR 2025 became the year technology companies aggressively abandoned functional products, remotely disabling features millions of customers depended on. Google killed smart features on Nest thermostats, Microsoft ended both Skype and Windows 10 support leaving 850 million vulnerable devices, AOL shut down dial-up service used by hundreds of thousands with no alternatives, and Apple eliminated the iPhone home button. The year exposed an uncomfortable truth: you don't own your technology—you rent access to features companies can revoke whenever profit margins demand it. BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Major technology companies in 2025 terminated support for functional products affecting hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Google disabled Nest thermostat connectivity requiring $230+ replacements, Microsoft ended Windows 10 security updates on October 14 le...

  Why 90,000°F Feels Like Nothing in Space How the Voyager spacecraft survived temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun—and what fluorescent bulbs can teach us about the fourth state of matter On August 25, 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft accomplished something unprecedented: it became the first human-made object to leave our solar system. As it crossed the boundary between the sun's domain and the vast unknown of interstellar space, instruments measured temperatures reaching between 30,000 and 50,000 Kelvin—roughly 54,000 to 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Six years later, Voyager 2 followed, confirming measurements nearly double what models had predicted. Scientists dubbed this scorching boundary the "wall of fire." Yet neither spacecraft melted. Neither even warmed up measurably. Both continued their journeys into interstellar space, their 1970s-era electronics humming along, sending data back across billions of miles as if nothing remarkable had happened. ...