Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft?

The Daily Telegraph (Australia) ^ | 5/12/10 | The Daily Telegraph

[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.

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[knarf]

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[Professional]

LOL!

[Jewbacca]

"Americans could never be that dumb again, could they?"



Gee, this loser might be in charge when aliens attack. Wonderful.

[Mad Dawg]

Translation:

Your satellite is very important to us. Please stay on the line and we will respond to it in the order in which it was received.

[the rest of the signal is hold music]

[null and void]

How does one become an alien expert when we have had no proven contact with any [space] aliens?

The same way one becomes an economics expert.

[knarf]

Quoth the Jabberwok, “Nevermore” ... ???

[a fool in paradise]

[Deaf Smith]

Well, they did include a nekkid pic of a blonde on the spacecraft.

[fungoking]

Has our spawn Obama destroyed America yet?

[Hot Tabasco]

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

is it a secret message?

Yes, I've managed to decode it on my computer. It says "turn the damn music off, we're sick of listening to Barry Manilow and the BG's......!"

[null and void]

Of course it has a mundane explanation. For aliens to send us messages through the spacecraft would be like sending text messages to someone sitting right next to you.

I've seen that being done.

[a fool in paradise]

Gee, this loser might be in charge when aliens attack. Wonderful.

He's pulled all funding for manned space exploration. Why bother to spend money to go to other worlds when we can just wait for them to come to this Third one?

[RobinOfKingston]

Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf ...

Given the dearth of actual aliens or even alien artifacts, exactly how does one achieve "expert" status in this field?

[GeronL]

The signals would be so diffuse it’d almost be impossible to pick up anything but a pixel here and there.

[Quix]

Will check it out.

Thx.

[bert]

Play it for honey bees. We can’t expect to communicate with aliens when we have not yet established two way communications with bees

Maybe the bees will get it right away

[GeronL]

Americans could never be that dumb again, could they?

Now you are just being sarcastic

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