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Contact with NASA's Voyager 2 probe severed by technical glitch
UPI ^
| JULY 31, 2023 / 8:49 PM
| By Don Jacobson
Posted on 08/01/2023 10:56:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv
V-ger ping!.................
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posted on
08/01/2023 10:56:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
dang... beat me to it...
frowny face emoji
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posted on
08/01/2023 10:57:20 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: Red Badger
Thanks for posting this.
I first read of this on The Register but haven’t had time to post it.
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posted on
08/01/2023 10:58:30 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: Red Badger
If they issued a reset command, it could take a while to observe success on the other side.
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posted on
08/01/2023 10:58:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:03:51 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
To: BigFreakinToad
Somebody dropped the game controller...................
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:04:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
“Scientists think the situation is only temporary because the craft is programmed to auto-correct its orientation several times each year in order to keep its antenna pointed toward Earth. Its next planned reorientation is set for Oct. 15.”
Very cool, but I can only imagine it says, “Um...my data set of stars doesn’t go out this far.”
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:04:57 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(No Arm up! They have!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:05:45 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
To: Red Badger
Was it caused by a bad command or by passing close to those
two planets as both were stated by the article?
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:06:09 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
Somebody dropped the game controller...................Blame it on Stockton Rush.
To: Red Badger; All
Wasn’t this the plot for the Star Trek movie?
To: BigFreakinToad
sure it’s a comm glitch.
It hit the edge of the box. All the stuff we see from our flat earth are the pinholes in the box
To: woodbutcher1963
Partially................
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:11:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: tet68
A software ‘glitch’............................
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:12:36 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: CodeToad
I’m sure they picked a star to align on that is far enough away to not have parallax problems............
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:13:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
One of my sons is an Astronautical Engineer at NASA. His first mission was flight operations on a solar observation satellite. Some years before, an on-board gyroscope broke and the spacecraft turned away from earth. They set up a program to call out in case it ever righted itself. A couple years later, it did and they were back in business.
The satellite first went live the year he was born and was supposed to be operational for 2-3 years. He began working on that mission as a college student and the satellite was still operating.
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:31:28 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
To: Red Badger
"... the craft is programmed to auto-correct its orientation several times each year in order to keep its antenna pointed toward Earth."Let's hope the same idiot(s) who sent the commands that "inadvertently caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth" weren't the same ones who programmed the spacecraft to auto-correct its antenna orientation several times a year.
Also let's hope some of the programmers didn't write program code lines that measure the antenna angle in degrees, while some other programmers' program code determined the antenna angle in radians.
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:31:53 AM PDT
by
Carl Vehse
(Move the Overton window to the right with defenestration.)
To: Red Badger
""A series of planned commands sent to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 21 inadvertently ...." Clearly, million man march math plus education in government schools has long term consequences...
"inadvertently" == "stupidly" or "moronically"
Wokeness & diversity rule!
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:33:59 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: Red Badger
Oh great, more bald-headed women.....
I think that was a song by the BeeGees
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posted on
08/01/2023 11:34:02 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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