A phone knows which way is up because a silicon chip smaller than a grain of rice contains tiny cantilever beams that physically bend under gravity, and the circuit measures how far they flex in three axes thousands of times a secondSeptember 7, 2026
The Voyager Golden Record has a small sample of uranium electroplated onto its cover, put there so that whoever finds it can measure how far the metal has decayed and work out how long the record has been drifting, a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years. Saving Tips May 28, 2026 Two identical records left Earth in 1977, one bolted to each Voyager spacecraft. The disc is the part most people…
