When we get to Sol can we track down Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 as unidentified signal sources at the edge of the solar system, and if scanned they play the voyager sounds of earth recordings.
Voyager 1 & 2 Unidentified Signals
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Go take a look and lemme know. Given the dev teams penchant for little details here and there they're likely already out there or on the production like.
I've seen enough Star-Trek to know where this is going.
Voyager 1 just reached the "edge" of our solar system two years ago. It took 34 years to reach that far. It's currently moving at a speed of roughly 3.6AU/yr. It has enough power to last until 2020, at which point systems will shut down and it will be a cold, lifeless object moving through deep space. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light-years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis which is heading toward the constellation Ophiuchus.
So, roughly 1,287 years later (in 3300), where will it be?
Somewhere in deep space, between the solar systems, cold to our heat-sensing radars. We don't even travel in deep space as we have hyperspace engines to take us from one solar system to another.
1 light-year = 63240 AU. It would be 4762.407AU from Sol in year 3300. So, Voyager 1 will be roughly .0753069Ly from Sol.
So for a player to find Voyager 1, they'll have to take a (fast) ship out of Sol system on the exact same trajectory as V1 in order to even have a chance of bumping into it.
Anyone care to do the math to figure out how long the person's computer will have to be on to reach that location using regular drives? (Remember, supercruise bounces you around, so you'll veer off on another trajectory, and any slight .00000000000001 difference will mean you'll completely miss V1's small size, which is 9'6" x 21' x 57'. ( ' = feet, " = inches )
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Good luck!
So, roughly 1,287 years later (in 3300), where will it be?
Somewhere in deep space, between the solar systems, cold to our heat-sensing radars. We don't even travel in deep space as we have hyperspace engines to take us from one solar system to another.
1 light-year = 63240 AU. It would be 4762.407AU from Sol in year 3300. So, Voyager 1 will be roughly .0753069Ly from Sol.
So for a player to find Voyager 1, they'll have to take a (fast) ship out of Sol system on the exact same trajectory as V1 in order to even have a chance of bumping into it.
Anyone care to do the math to figure out how long the person's computer will have to be on to reach that location using regular drives? (Remember, supercruise bounces you around, so you'll veer off on another trajectory, and any slight .00000000000001 difference will mean you'll completely miss V1's small size, which is 9'6" x 21' x 57'. ( ' = feet, " = inches )
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Good luck!
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Voyager 1 just reached the "edge" of our solar system two years ago. It took 34 years to reach that far. It's currently moving at a speed of roughly 3.6AU/yr. It has enough power to last until 2020, at which point systems will shut down and it will be a cold, lifeless object moving through deep space. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light-years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis which is heading toward the constellation Ophiuchus.
So, roughly 1,287 years later (in 3300), where will it be?
Somewhere in deep space, between the solar systems, cold to our heat-sensing radars. We don't even travel in deep space as we have hyperspace engines to take us from one solar system to another.
1 light-year = 63240 AU. It would be 4762.407AU from Sol in year 3300. So, Voyager 1 will be roughly .0753069Ly from Sol.
So for a player to find Voyager 1, they'll have to take a (fast) ship out of Sol system on the exact same trajectory as V1 in order to even have a chance of bumping into it.
Anyone care to do the math to figure out how long the person's computer will have to be on to reach that location using regular drives? (Remember, supercruise bounces you around, so you'll veer off on another trajectory, and any slight .00000000000001 difference will mean you'll completely miss V1's small size, which is 9'6" x 21' x 57'. ( ' = feet, " = inches )
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Good luck!
THATS some masterful forum-fu!
You rock!
Voyager 1 just reached the "edge" of our solar system two years ago. It took 34 years to reach that far. It's currently moving at a speed of roughly 3.6AU/yr. It has enough power to last until 2020, at which point systems will shut down and it will be a cold, lifeless object moving through deep space. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light-years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis which is heading toward the constellation Ophiuchus.
So, roughly 1,287 years later (in 3300), where will it be?
Somewhere in deep space, between the solar systems, cold to our heat-sensing radars. We don't even travel in deep space as we have hyperspace engines to take us from one solar system to another.
1 light-year = 63240 AU. It would be 4762.407AU from Sol in year 3300. So, Voyager 1 will be roughly .0753069Ly from Sol.
So for a player to find Voyager 1, they'll have to take a (fast) ship out of Sol system on the exact same trajectory as V1 in order to even have a chance of bumping into it.
Anyone care to do the math to figure out how long the person's computer will have to be on to reach that location using regular drives? (Remember, supercruise bounces you around, so you'll veer off on another trajectory, and any slight .00000000000001 difference will mean you'll completely miss V1's small size, which is 9'6" x 21' x 57'. ( ' = feet, " = inches )
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Good luck!
Damn you and your analytical thinking!!
Maybe they have run into some Elite Dangerous 'space friction' and have slowed down...
More than likely what's happened is that once the faster drives were created, someone already went out to find Voyager 1 and 2. There would be no need for them anymore, so they could be brought back home to Earth and put on display with an interactive map on where they would currently be (not far at all) and just how far mankind has spread at that moment.
And then people of the year 3000 would all be like, "Wow... those gits back in the early 2000's certainly lived in the stone age. How they ever figured out how to get this is space is a mystery! There's no space for a FTL drive anywhere! And the design is so ugly. What were they thinking? Is that a circuit board?? Is that what they look like? How crude! Thank God we have quantum holographic nanotechnology for our computing power now!"
It'd only take about an hour and 20 minutes to reach Voyager's projected distance at 500 c (very doable once you get away from significant gravity sources while supercruising), so I don't think it's too unreasonable to assume that someone will set off in search of it.
People spent 6+ hours approaching stars/planets to see what happens when you clip through the surface, after all.
People spent 6+ hours approaching stars/planets to see what happens when you clip through the surface, after all.
Quick thought about Voyager 1 ingame
Hi there guys.
I was just discussing what might be in the Sol system ingame with a friend and a thought arose about the whereabouts of the Voyager 1 probe and will it be ingame and vistiable by any chance based on calculation to determine where it will be in the galaxy by the year 3300.
What are your thoughts on this ?
Hi there guys.
I was just discussing what might be in the Sol system ingame with a friend and a thought arose about the whereabouts of the Voyager 1 probe and will it be ingame and vistiable by any chance based on calculation to determine where it will be in the galaxy by the year 3300.
What are your thoughts on this ?
interesting idea but then the first one who finds it blows it up?....maybe vger comes and gets you..but it would be interesting to see how the unidentified contacts play out..i wonder how many different objects from various space series could be used as easter eggs without copyright infrigment?
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I don't think that too many of the younger people playing the game will get that vger reference
According to Wikipedia, Voyager 1 will enter the Oort cloud in 300 years and won't exit it until 3000 years from now. So short answer is it'll still be nearer to Sol than any other system.
It'll probably be a tourist destination in 3300 with Orca cruise ships visiting it on a regular basis
Apparently its only doing 17 km/s, so a little over half the velocity you can go in Supercruise at its slowest!
It'll probably be a tourist destination in 3300 with Orca cruise ships visiting it on a regular basis
Apparently its only doing 17 km/s, so a little over half the velocity you can go in Supercruise at its slowest!
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