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July 1

Who is the woman in white in this photo?

Who is the woman in white in the photo at the beginning of this article?: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Think-About-it-The-superfluous-elections-should-not-be-canceled-594185 Futurist110 (talk) 05:29, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean the person looking away from the laptop, I'm not sure whether that's a man or woman. SinisterLefty (talk) 12:40, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like a woman since she appears to have a necklace on. Futurist110 (talk) 20:03, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt she's a politician. The laptop and the fact that her seat doesn't have a microphone suggest that she is there in some kind of admin or support role. --Viennese Waltz 07:27, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I should have known she couldn't be a politician, because her mouth is closed. :-) SinisterLefty (talk)

Was certain external cabling on Voyager 1 covered with aluminum foil?

From what I remember, one of the things mentioned in the documentary "The Farthest: Voyager in Space" was that concerns arose about Jupiter's magnetic fields shortly before Voyager 1 was to be launched. Specifically, the concern was that systems on the spacecraft could be damaged or destroyed if certain external cabling on the spacecraft was exposed to Jupiter's magnetic fields. To provide protection, certain parts of Voyager 1 were covered with kitchen-grade aluminum foil and the foil was connected or bonded to a grounded portion of the spacecraft.

Among other places, there is mention of this use of aluminum foil in this AOL News article and in this Daily News article.

Of particular interest to me is whether the claim about using kitchen-grade aluminum foil to protect external cabling on the spacecraft is accurate. If the claim is accurate and it can be reliably sourced, it would seem that the topic might be worth at least a quick mention in the Voyager 1 article. Thanks.

(I posted a message about this on the Voyager 1 article talk page in June of last year. No responses were received, so my thought was to ask about the issue here.) --Elegie (talk) 07:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of those are near to RS for this. They might be barely adequate for "something was wrapped in something", but we're going to want accurate technical detail here. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Googling voyager aluminum foil brings up many mentions, including a transcript of an interview. It would seem remarkable if that transcript was a flat out fabrication (dare I say fake news). 85.76.66.111 (talk) 14:42, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a mention on nasa.gov which confirms that The Farthest: Voyager in Space says what the original poster says. The question is what is a reliable source on this for Wikipedia purposes. --76.69.117.113 (talk) 21:30, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The sources may not have as much detail as one would like, but they seem reliable enough for what they say, that kitchen aluminum foil was used for shielding, which of course we should not go beyond.John Z (talk) 04:37, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]