• Voyager-1 becomes first man-made object to leave the Solar System
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[t]http://imgkk.com/i/64xx.jpg[/t] Image from [url=http://www.space.com/20313-voyager-1-leaves-solar-system.html]Space.com[/url] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21866532[/url] [quote]The Voyager-1 spacecraft has left the Solar System, the first man-made object to do so. Launched in September 1977, the probe was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going. The US space agency (Nasa) reports that Voyager has now entered a realm of space beyond the influence of our Sun. This interstellar region is calculated to be more than 18 billion km from Earth, or 123 times the distance between our planet and the Sun.[/quote]
I'm not too knowledgeable about shit like this, but are they still getting updates from Voyager? Or are they just tracking a piece of junk that's flying through space, now beyond our reach.
One small step for it...
Suddenly a swarm of aliens destroys it.
One day this'll crash on to a planet and in thousands of years to come it'll be discovered by some thing.
Thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkik97YkiE0[/media] Soldier on, you magnificent little bastard.
[QUOTE=Kirovich;39980892]I'm not too knowledgeable about shit like this, but are they still getting updates from Voyager? Or are they just tracking a piece of junk that's flying through space, now beyond our reach.[/QUOTE] I think they still have contact with the probe.
[QUOTE=Kirovich;39980892]I'm not too knowledgeable about shit like this, but are they still getting updates from Voyager? Or are they just tracking a piece of junk that's flying through space, now beyond our reach.[/QUOTE] We're still getting signals, so we've also managed to discover much about the boundary conditions between our solar system and the interstellar medium beyond.
[QUOTE=Conna;39980902]One day this'll crash on to a planet and in thousands of years to come it'll be discovered by some thing.[/QUOTE] prolly not space is really vast
[QUOTE=Kirovich;39980892]I'm not too knowledgeable about shit like this, but are they still getting updates from Voyager? Or are they just tracking a piece of junk that's flying through space, now beyond our reach.[/QUOTE] We're [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Interstellar_mission]still getting updates[/url] and using Voyager to learn about the edge of our solar system! It only has about another 10 years of power left though, after which point its systems will shut down forever
Relevant [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcRUawHfXA&list=LL7l9dz-nobG3eM6dfvq1W_g[/media]
It still has minimal function.
ninja'd
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rss-xVvOBwo[/media] God speed, Voyager 1!
Well, that's good. Though whenever it stops completely working, those dirty fucking aliens wont get our space knowledge. Check and mate, you fucking space scum.
[QUOTE=Kirovich;39980954]Well, that's good. Though whenever it stops completely working, those dirty fucking aliens wont get our space knowledge. Check and mate, you fucking space scum.[/QUOTE] Instead they'll just get the golden record and learn all about us.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;39981043]Instead they'll just get the golden record and learn all about us.[/QUOTE] fuck.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;39981043]Instead they'll just get the golden record and learn all about us.[/QUOTE] There's still a discussion going on whether or not it was a bit naive to send something deep into space with our location in respect to nearby stars, things about us, etc. in case it's picked up by someone who's not quite as nice as we'd like them to be. On the other hand it might show that we're not afraid of being visited.
Would be cool if a friendly alien race intercepted the Voyager and back-tracked it to us and made a visit.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhxBAegoebI[/media] Go and invade the galaxy Voyager!
This is cool, you can see real time stats on this page: [url]http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/index.html[/url]
[video=youtube;FboXO1FtbvE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboXO1FtbvE[/video] Voyager may lose power one day but it will keep rockin' for 4.4 billion years
[QUOTE=MR-X;39981279]Would be cool if a friendly alien race intercepted the Voyager and back-tracked it to us and made a visit.[/QUOTE] It would be amazing if they brought it back too, as a peace offering.
I hope one day we can catch up to it and bring it back home. I get weirdly affectionate when it comes to these space probes. Probably because space is so dark and vast and scary and we currently have no viable means of bringing anything lost in that abyss back.
[QUOTE=Vilusia;39981532]It would be amazing if they brought it back too, as a peace offering.[/QUOTE] Or they bring it back while it's still operational, "...Guys, why the fuck is Voyager 1 going backwards?". And then we spend the next 30 or so years for the aliens to give it back to us hiding in bunkers.
Maybe, if no aliens show up, we can go and bring it back.
[QUOTE=Conna;39980902]One day this'll crash on to a planet and in thousands of years to come it'll be discovered by some thing.[/QUOTE] No it won't. This thing will probably be afloat in space for a very long time, and the chance are if it does enter the gravitational pull of a something it'll probably be a gas giant or brown dwarf.
It actually didn't leave yet, NASA responded saying its on the magnetic highway a new region of our solarsystem
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;39981043]Instead they'll just get the golden record and learn all about us.[/QUOTE] Blingest race in space
[QUOTE=MR-X;39981279]Would be cool if a friendly alien race intercepted the Voyager and back-tracked it to us and made a visit.[/QUOTE] What if they're already watching us, and sending a probe out of the solar system is the trigger condition for them to make contact.
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