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Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft?
The Daily Telegraph (Australia) ^ | 5/12/10 | The Daily Telegraph

Posted on 05/13/2010 8:28:07 AM PDT by Braak

IT left Earth 33 years ago, now it's claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode.

NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.

But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!

The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?

Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth" Read more in Bild

Engineers are working to solve the data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said today.

The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.

Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most distant human-made objects.

Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space.

Voyager 2 will follow after that.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Miscellaneous; US: California; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: littlegreenmen; space; voyager2
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To: Braak
The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?

It says"Loo-see, you got some splainin to doooo!"

-PJ

61 posted on 05/13/2010 8:40:45 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: pissant

I came up with “Are Earth girls easy?”


62 posted on 05/13/2010 8:40:54 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, you know chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Braak

it’s QAGAAR warriors!


63 posted on 05/13/2010 8:40:57 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Braak

Breaking translation: "Are Earth girls easy?"

64 posted on 05/13/2010 8:41:59 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: Braak

It is all ones and zeroes.....zeroes and ones....checksum is your friend.


65 posted on 05/13/2010 8:42:16 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: TexasCajun
Yes its V'Ger and when it gets home it's goning to be pissed at what it sees!

66 posted on 05/13/2010 8:42:16 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Braak

“Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!”


67 posted on 05/13/2010 8:42:23 AM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
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To: Deaf Smith
See, that's two translations in agreement!

;-)

68 posted on 05/13/2010 8:42:53 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: knarf

You’re one speedy knarf! :)


69 posted on 05/13/2010 8:43:34 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: C19fan

Imagine if James Carville was on the data?


70 posted on 05/13/2010 8:44:28 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: Braak

We are coming, we are coming for all of you! We are coming, we are coming for all of you!...............................


71 posted on 05/13/2010 8:44:28 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Braak

“How’s Jimmy Carter working out?”


72 posted on 05/13/2010 8:44:29 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Braak

The Flight Data System is finally failing.


73 posted on 05/13/2010 8:44:55 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Bookwoman

They know what data corruption looks like.

Definitely and the Voyager 2 is far from the White House so that can’t be the problem.


74 posted on 05/13/2010 8:44:57 AM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: Braak; KevinDavis

V-Ger is alive.

V-Ger is coming home!


75 posted on 05/13/2010 8:45:01 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Hey, this is a family website. You can’t post that kind of language here! /sarc


76 posted on 05/13/2010 8:45:16 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: C19fan

Great minds ... and all of that ...


77 posted on 05/13/2010 8:45:27 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Braak

Got it! I decoded the first part of it:

“Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!”


78 posted on 05/13/2010 8:45:39 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Anyone can fib. It takes an intellectual to tell a really big lie.)
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To: Braak
Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.

Frickin' brilliant.

We get a call and the first thing we do is hang up on them.

(Best case we will regret losing all that ordinary data after we figure out how to unscramble what we've gotten)

79 posted on 05/13/2010 8:46:00 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 476 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Lazamataz

The first one is out of the solar system I think, more or less.


80 posted on 05/13/2010 8:46:08 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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