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

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/img] Applies for Voyager too.

[QUOTE=DrLuke;36396695][img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/img] Applies for Voyager too.[/QUOTE]Do you have the "Spacebat: Cookies for the Rover" one? That sort of applies as well...

[QUOTE=TestECull;36396254]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.[/QUOTE] who cares about nations? the aliens sure as fuck don't [editline]19th June 2012[/editline] "oh boy, we've made contact with extraterrestrial life! my country's penis can grow another inch!"

Anyone interested on whats on the disc that the voyager is carrying can check this guy's channel out. Part. 1/31 [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuq9rNO_FQ&feature=channel&list=UL[/MEDIA]

[QUOTE=areolop;36393083]I think the entire science community would shit a log.[/QUOTE] I just pictured some obese scientist shitting over 150 pounds and suddenly becoming healthy from hearing that.

Damn for being old (1977 damn..), it reached far and I'm surprised we can still pick its signal up.

[QUOTE=End It All;36396835]Anyone interested on whats on the disc that the voyager is carrying can check this guy's channel out. Part. 1/31 [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuq9rNO_FQ&feature=channel&list=UL[/MEDIA][/QUOTE] you just know aliens are going to just want the digital copy

It's going to hit the skybox eventually.

[quote=Carl Sagan]We had an expansive run in the ’60s and the ’70s. You might have thought, as I did then, that our species would be on Mars before the century was over. But, instead, we’ve pulled inward. Robots aside, we’ve backed off from the planets and the stars. I keep asking myself: is it a failure of nerve, or a sign of maturity?[/quote] Voyager 1 is one of only a handful of probes and pieces of technology that is still functioning to this day which serves as a reminder of a time long since passed now - a time in which, however briefly, we actually collectively wondered what was out there in the vast unknown.

[QUOTE=sltungle;36397900]Voyager 1 is one of only a handful of probes and pieces of technology that is still functioning to this day which serves as a reminder of a time long since passed now - a time in which, however briefly, we actually collectively wondered what was out there in the vast unknown.[/QUOTE] and it'll be there long after we are all gone

What if gold is a deadly virus that flat out destroys their entire starship fleet when they touch it?

I wonder how many other alien civilizations have created their equivalent of the Voyager, and if we'll ever find one of their satellites floating around. Everything about this is fucking awesome.

[QUOTE=End It All;36396835]Anyone interested on whats on the disc that the voyager is carrying can check this guy's channel out. Part. 1/31 [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuq9rNO_FQ&feature=channel&list=UL[/MEDIA][/QUOTE] They shouldn't have used a guy with a strong accent. How will the aliens understand him? Anyway, this reminds me of in video games when you go out too far in the water or something and a shark or something inevitably jumps up and eats you (jak & daxter, Ratchet & Clank).

It would be creepy as fuck if it stopped and start accelerating back towards earth.

[QUOTE=Mind Infection;36399143]It would be creepy as fuck if it stopped and start accelerating back towards earth.[/QUOTE] If that would happen, a shitload of things would be clearer actually. It's not that non sensual.

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[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36392759]Pretty much why I post a lot of Popular Science articles. Half the stuff I post from there I don't even really understand, but science and it's cool stuff has always been something everyone on FP enjoys.[/QUOTE] Nnno!

[QUOTE=End It All;36396835]Anyone interested on whats on the disc that the voyager is carrying can check this guy's channel out. Part. 1/31 [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuq9rNO_FQ&feature=channel&list=UL[/MEDIA][/QUOTE] "Sweet, a frisbee!"

[QUOTE=jaykray;36398808]They shouldn't have used a guy with a strong accent. How will the aliens understand him?[/QUOTE] They shouldn't have used a guy who speaks a human language. How will the aliens understand him?

yeah what the fuck i'm from this planet, fluent in the language he is speaking, and am having trouble understand what he's saying

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;36404548]They shouldn't have used a guy who speaks a human language. How will the aliens understand him?[/QUOTE] I don't know, but someone english should have said it, for clarity.

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;36404548]They shouldn't have used a guy who speaks a human language. How will the aliens understand him?[/QUOTE] Yeah, they should have employed one of the earth's many alien language experts.

The entire record should have been made in Klingon and Na'vi so that the aliens could understand it.