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NASA's maintenance of 1970s spacecraft code highlights a growing crisis in legacy systems expertise, as the assembly language used for the Voyager probes becomes a dying art understood by only a handful of engineers worldwide. In a contrasting creative movement, the Dogme 95 offshoot Dogme 25 imposes a "vow of chastity" on filmmakers, mandating strict rules like shooting on location and using only natural light to foster innovation through constraint. Together, these stories underscore a shared tension in technical fields: the struggle to balance preservation of foundational work with the need for modern reinvention.