• Voyager1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
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[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;38721847]it's moving at about 360KM/ a day[/QUOTE] Try 360 km every 24 seconds if it's travelling at 15 km/s. Per day it's travelling 1296000 km if it's travelling at 15 km/s. Wikipedia says it's travelling at about 17 km/s relative to the sun, however.
Nuclear propulsion or electrical thrusters would make interstellar travel so much faster though. Would it just keep accelerating if there is nothing to stop it? At the moment its moving because there isn't anything able to slow it but what if you added electrical thrusters or nuclear propulsion.
[QUOTE=laserguided;38722132]Nuclear propulsion or electrical thrusters would make interstellar travel so much faster though. Would it just keep accelerating if there is nothing to stop it? At the moment its moving because there isn't anything able to slow it but what if you added electrical thrusters or nuclear propulsion.[/QUOTE] Yes, it would continuously accelerate if you continuously applied a force.
[QUOTE=vizard38;38700697]If my rudimentary of knowledge of chemistry is correct then even long after its death, Voyager will still be there in space, within the abyss of darkness and stars, to rest within the deep recesses of space perhaps far after humanity has died. And then, one day, a young alien race has made its foothold in the means of interstellar travel and they discover the remnants of Voyager and within it the golden disk. The race becomes jubilant, happy at the idea that they are not alone, and as they race for our planet to make contact, they thank little Voyager. And yet, as they approach Earth, it is desolate, empty, and this race would but think to themselves, "What an amazing society, what great people, and yet now gone and lost into the tomes of the past."[/QUOTE] This reminded me of something nearby. The feeling when you realize... Thousands of years after the mankind has slaughtered itself and the earth will be nothing but a radiating ball of rock and dust. ...Above the polluted earth and toxic atmosphere - this girl will still be flying her mission. [IMG]http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/laika.jpg[/IMG] [sp]not really, her capsule already burnt in the atmosphere =( [/sp]
I hope Voyager 1 doesn't pop the bubble and cause our solar system to fly away in the space wind.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;38730765]I hope Voyager 1 doesn't pop the bubble and cause our solar system to fly away in the space wind.[/QUOTE] That, Or hits the inner wall of the Dyson sphere containing our solar system, Century Rain style
Christ I hope there is a boom in space technology, or we gain the ability to extend our lifetimes significantly. I don't want to be stuck on this rock.
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