Java Threads & Voyager Spacecrafts

Java Threads & Voyager Spacecrafts

Sometimes you know things happen—people move on or get separated—but life has its chords running. Just like threads in a Java program, some of those threads don’t die or can’t be terminated. They simply continue to operate in the background, carrying out their intended tasks. The program may be terminated, but the threads keep running, taking resources and a lot of memory space.

It’s so amazing to think about it all, and the only feeling one gets is one of awe and wonder. Things get antiquated and obsolete. However, similar to the voyager, a spacecraft that has left our solar system, it continues to transmit images of its surroundings and experiences. And we, for generations, will have to deal with the magnitude of the information that our own threads running out there will provide us someday.

You asked me what I was thinking, and I said I was concentrating. I was!! I accepted and systematically filed away the pictures that my voyager was sending to me. It was insignificant; merely a thread, devoid of intelligence and emotion, performing its intended function. At least it performs its task more effectively than we do! Right??