Voyager 1, Moving Ever Closer to Solar System's Edge, Hit By Rapidly Increasing Amounts of Cosmic Ra - Polidicks

[QUOTE=dark soul;36393557]I wonder how much longer before the little guy starves and goes offline due to lack of sunlight :(.[/QUOTE] he'll go offline due to lack of power (not sunlight- he isn't solar powered) in 2025-ish if he's kept on 100% of time for the next 13 years.

Now lets hope we don't suddenly discover that the area outside the heliosphere will annihilate everything we send out of it through some sort of mysterious anomaly in physics.

[QUOTE=areolop;36392866]I want the mars rovers back home. Their famous.[/QUOTE] I want to see them use that new one they're sending up there, the nuclear powered one, to go and clean off the panels of spirit and pull it out of that crap its stuck in somehow

Can anyone who knows fuck about shit explain to me how the fuck we can still get goddamned information from this bitch? Also what the tits is still powering this motherfucker?

[QUOTE=prooboo;36393808]Can anyone who knows fuck about shit explain to me how the fuck we can still get goddamned information from this bitch? Also what the tits is still powering this motherfucker?[/QUOTE] A shitload of radio telescopes are aimed at it, as it's signals are getting weaker the farther it goes, and it's powered by a nuclear reactor.

All it needs is a asteroid to smash it into dust....

Plucky little SOB. A testament to American engineering when American engineering actually meant something.

[QUOTE=finbe;36393947]A shitload of radio telescopes are aimed at it, as it's signals are getting weaker the farther it goes, and it's powered by a nuclear reactor.[/QUOTE] More precisely, it's powered by an RTG.

[QUOTE=finbe;36393947]A shitload of radio telescopes are aimed at it, as it's signals are getting weaker the farther it goes, and it's powered by a nuclear reactor.[/QUOTE] Not quite a nuclear reactor, but it is powered by heat generated by decaying plutonium.

They should have given Voyager a gun. That would show those good for nothing particles who's boss.

The only sad thing is is that every single one of us alive right now will very unlikely know anything besides the extremely big (galaxies, nebulae, supernovae) outside the Solar System. :(

[QUOTE=prooboo;36393808]Can anyone who knows fuck about shit explain to me how the fuck we can still get goddamned information from this bitch? Also what the tits is still powering this motherfucker?[/QUOTE] It's a big moment in your life, when you first discover you can swear on the internet

Actually it can only last a few thousand years long, cosmic particles and their impacts are already erroding the machine and one day it will be nothing but a perforated hunk of trash looking like someone made spaghetti out of metal and threw some acid at it.

[QUOTE=shian;36394481]All it needs is a asteroid to smash it into dust....[/QUOTE] the odds of that are like 5 trillion trillion to one space is big, yo

[QUOTE=OvB;36392878]Let's build museums around all the landers/rovers that we've put on the moon/mars/elsewhere when we colonize it. Build a big glass box around it as best as you can without messing up the area.[/QUOTE] According to the Novels, thats what they did in the Star Trek Universe this was in a Star Trek episode as well, I thought it was nice [t]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110624225956/memoryalpha/en/images/6/66/Carl_Sagan_Memorial_Station.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23810060/terra_prime_285.jpg[/t] [url]http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan_Memorial_Station[/url] When and if we reach Mars, we need to do this

[QUOTE=Rastadogg5;36395357]They should have given Voyager a gun. That would show those good for nothing particles who's boss.[/QUOTE] Interstellar drive-by.

-snip- what the fuck wrong thread

[QUOTE=apurplerock;36393091]technically speaking, dark matter is non-tangible[/QUOTE] I thought we didn't know what dark matter was, and it was just an explanation for all the unaccounted for matter in the universe.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36395550]I thought we didn't know what dark matter was, and it was just an explanation for all the unaccounted for matter in the universe.[/QUOTE] Yes, we can't see it and it's not colliding with anything so it's probably a particle that can only interact gravitationally.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36392682]Even if the electronics on it fail, it still carries that plaque of humanity of where it's from on it. It will float, forever, in space even in silence carrying that proof that we are here.[/QUOTE] it also has a record on repeat of carl sagans son saying a few lines

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcJXUWXMTI[/media] Relevant.

Fuck, meeting a species from another planet is my greatest wish.

Who gives a shit about Voyager I Voyager II 4ever

[QUOTE=Rastadogg5;36395357]They should have given Voyager a gun. That would show those good for nothing particles who's boss.[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_II:_Combat_Commander][img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34087914/screenshots/intro.gif[/img][/url] :v:

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;36395510]Interstellar drive-by.[/QUOTE] You came to the wrong star system, motherfucker.

[QUOTE=TestECull;36394503]Plucky little SOB. A testament to American engineering when American engineering actually meant something.[/QUOTE] I would rather call this a testament to human engineering, seeing as how scientists and engineers from around the world have contributed to the technology and research that the probes are built on.

Edit: Oh, battlezone 2.

[QUOTE=demoguy08;36396213]I would rather call this a testament to human engineering, seeing as how scientists and engineers from around the world have contributed to the technology and research that the probes are built on.[/QUOTE] But their nations didn't build, launch, or operate it. We did. Sure, the team that designed it was international, but at the end of the day the Stars and Stripes are what's stenciled into the hull.

Voyager 1, i mean, Voyager 6 is going to turn into V'ger after it crashes on a remote planet, and sent back home to finish it's mission, after being upgraded by the advanced robot society on the planet. [QUOTE=PowerBall v1;36396164]Who gives a shit about Voyager I Voyager II 4ever[/QUOTE] Sorry, Voyager VI forever.

I bet the real reason of sending voyager was to set up an intersteller Starbucks on the edge of the solar system for the incoming aliens after their long journey...