Posted on 12/02/2017 4:37:18 PM PST by BenLurkin
That’s the signal, originating 11 and a half billion miles away from Earth, of Voyager 1. Way too small for any terrestrial optical telescope to see, but radio telescopes pick it up fairly loud and clear.
#12. Great comment re “Looks like meat is back on menu, boys”.
And then they would ask, “Where did we put that copy of ‘To Serve Man’”?
#15. It’s great to see that the two moons of Mars are still high in orbit around it.
She is one beautiful woman, Borg or not!
#34. Re “However we can still communicate with Voyager across that distance”.
Coming to a theater next year, “Star Trek: Voyager - Call Home”.
I read your line, “great union”.
My mind went zombie blank, staring into nothingness, for a long 15 seconds.
Then the biggest, LMAO! LOL! :-)
Incredible.
Those engineers and scientists from 2 generations ago sure did have “The Right Stuff”
I didn’t start my ol Jeep for a Month and the battery was dead so I am impressed.
“That’s the signal, originating 11 and a half billion miles away from Earth, of Voyager 1. Way too small for any terrestrial optical telescope to see, but radio telescopes pick it up fairly loud and clear.”
...although it takes something like 18 hours for one-way travel of the radio waves. And the bandwidth is now something like 20 baud (20 bits/second)...as in really, really, slow communication. And it’s plutonium battery is even running down.
Incredible spacecraft!
Yup. Yet another woman to abhor.
The engineers behind Voyager 1 probably went to the same engineering schools as the engineers behind 1970’s American cars.
Amazing stuff.
In that case, they probably were the ones behind the Mars Viking Landers that could scratch and sniff the soil (which they did to ambiguous results) but if a Martian elephant walked pass, they’d not have a clue.
Yea, incredible. I was calculating its location to compare it to Alpha Centuri (the nearest start). Still less than 1% of the distance...but a RESPECTABLE fraction of that 1%.
“If aliens come across this thousands of years from now, what will they think?”
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If some aliens find it whenever, they will think: possible competitor and hunt down and eliminate the problem with extreme prejudice.
“Those engineers and scientists from 2 generations ago sure did have “The Right Stuff””
And now most of our engineers come from India, China and Pakistan ...
“In that case, they probably were the ones behind the Mars Viking Landers that could scratch and sniff the soil (which they did to ambiguous results) but if a Martian elephant walked pass, they’d not have a clue.”
Same goes for the apparent fossilized crinoid which was ground off by MOS to study the rock beneath.
One and the same. V’ger= from the first Star Trek movie.
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