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It is absolutely vital to Earth's future survival that we do not look uncool in front of aliens.

You'd think LEDs would be pretty low power, but the tech was still very new back in the 70's. Unfortunate, but what can ya do?

"How about the disco ball and DJ console?" "Absolutely not!" "It's unmanned! Who the hell's gonna use it?!?!" "Look, we have to show these aliens that we can party."

Voyager Operator: I've made great progress on the Voyager communication system. See, the ping times from Voyager have taken on a bell shape. They got longer and longer, then stopped changing, and now it's getting shorter and shorter!