One was blown up by a klingon for target practice in one of the trek movies....
Astronomy / Space Voyager has left the Solar System
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One was blown up by a klingon for target practice in one of the trek movies....
The other one was worshiped wasn't it? v'ger or something. Damn my memory is getting bad...
The other one was worshiped wasn't it? v'ger or something. Damn my memory is getting bad...
That was Voyager VI. One more reason no sci-fi should be set within the potential living memory of its viewers
I suspect that as new data, and new ideas and theories, turns up the criteria change.... The ultimate in moving goalposts really...
Or the nature of the scientific method, that being to modify explanations in the light of new evidence.
Voyager to infinity and beyond
Excuse the silly title but the possibility that within E we might see Voyager 1 or 2 and the realm they've just begun to enter is very exciting.
Look at this BBC news website for more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23075332
Ab
Excuse the silly title but the possibility that within E
we might see Voyager 1 or 2 and the realm they've just begun to enter is very exciting. Look at this BBC news website for more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23075332
Ab
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It would be good if it was confirmed to have left "the solar system just as the game is released
I also had a thought once imagine just as voyager left the solar system there was a huge mess of radio singles for day an hour then nothing and we reach the conclusion most short wave radio signals bounce off the heliosphere and only in inter stella space do you really hear other communications from alien civilizations..... This could explain the one Wow signal seti heard as being a forigen body that just happened to punch a small hole through the heliosphere...... Just a theory
I also had a thought once imagine just as voyager left the solar system there was a huge mess of radio singles for day an hour then nothing and we reach the conclusion most short wave radio signals bounce off the heliosphere and only in inter stella space do you really hear other communications from alien civilizations..... This could explain the one Wow signal seti heard as being a forigen body that just happened to punch a small hole through the heliosphere...... Just a theory
just to give you a sense of how far Voyager has travelled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21937524
14 light hours away.
Not far.
Not far.
Minti2
Deadly, But very fluffy...
take me 534,307 years to walk to the edge of the solar system
No worries will pick you up on the way, hope you like cheese sandwiches
No worries will pick you up on the way, hope you like cheese sandwiches
Bring a thermos of Assam tea, will you TLG? I'll bring the cakes.
I know our radio signals are theoretically a hundred light years or so out but I'm not sure they would be detectable. So they are not our fingerprint or 'touch' that I once thought they were. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I can provide more information on this.
The two probes are physical artefacts though. It feels like we really are saying hello to the galaxy. The one thing the Voyager project forces home, at least to me, is the idea of time. 36 years for 16 odd light hours. Only just leaving the solar system. It's the tiniest message in a bottle in the biggest ocean. In fact, it took 40 years for the bottle to leave the hand and hit the water!
Plus all the scientists and technicians who have moved into late middle age/early old age over the course of the project. It's sobering to witness our brief existence against the scale of even the local stellar neighbourhood.
In the future, our distant offspring may indeed overtake the probes. I really hope they do.
well according the the BBC post its still not quite there yet
To be honest they kind of have to get it right as any further man made objects that leave the solar system will be subject to the same conditions I feel sorry for NASA as im sure a lot of it is down to journalists asking the age old question 'Are we there yet?'
But how far away is it in Cobra Mk3 Hours?
Not 40 reading some of the debates of the definition of LM
I think the probe "Voyager" is afraid. She crossed the limit, done some thousands of kilometers, sees the solar system get away. Interstellar space is very impressive, then she comes back, the time to recover from her emotions.
Homage to Voyager
Some nice words from Carl Sagan about Voyager's last photo from Earth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TIeuBF9Ss
Some nice words from Carl Sagan about Voyager's last photo from Earth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TIeuBF9Ss