The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery, May Be Resolved At Last

Popular Science ^ | 12/15/2010 | Natalie Wolchover

[Eye of Unk]

I hope any future spacecraft that are being sent out past our solar system states that Obama was an usurper and failed to qualify to be POTUS.

Just a bit of snarky humor for the closet liberal posters here at FR.

And birthers become national heros all across America, songs are created, statues built, new schools named in honor of the bravest birthers.

And of course all the syndicated TV birther shows.

[Brilliant]

I don’t think they actually “solved” the anomaly. They just wrote a 200 page article discussing various possible causes.

[Thermalseeker]

Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh..

The original road map was broadcast in August of 1945 with subsequent larger and larger maps broadcast over the following 20 odd years. If ET is relatively close by and was listening all doubt about our location was removed long before the Pioneer spacecraft were ever launched......

[PowderMonkey]

"Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh.."

I prefer to think of it as defining restricted air space. A warning of sorts. "Warning. Naked taggers with upraised arms and 70s haircuts, scribbling things on spacecraft." A quick recon of Detroit or South Central LA will tell them to avoid this "'hood."

[ZX12R]

A quick recon of Detroit or South Central LA will tell them to avoid this "'hood."

Like in "Independence Day" where they had to tell people in the hood to not shoot at the spaceships.

[Proud_texan]

"a road map to our planet"

It's no big deal, they already had crop circles.

[null and void]

Come and get it!

[decimon]

My favorite part: “After decades spent thinking, arguing, hoping, and in the words of Turyshev, “making a career off of it,”...”

But then, I’m biased.

[Crolis]

Awesome movie. :) I liked Ming’s wedding vows to Dale as well.

[I Buried My Guns]

I always got a kick out of the depiction of the naked humans. Is that what we want the aliens to first see of us, a dangling wiener sent out only with the purpose of peace and friendship? Sound like me on a Saturday night (pre marriage).

Personally, I would have depicted the female to possess 3 breasts, like the mutant prostitute in Total Recall. You know, just to shake things up a little. For all we know, the aliens have 24 breasts, and consider us pikers.

[wxgesr]

Why aren’t the eggheads ever named, “John Smith” or “Ben Dover”? Their names are always something foreign, intricate and smart sounding.

[techcor]

Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh..

Yeah, and a copy of the menu to the "All they can eat buffet".

[RinaseaofDs]

Kurt Waldheim should have added the following to the bottom of the plaque:

“Eat more chikin”

[SunkenCiv]

• Gravitational anomalies: An invisible hand?
• Pioneer [gravitational] anomaly put to the test
• Scientists ponder the problem with gravity
• 13 things that do not make sense
• The Unfinished Quest to Solve the Pioneer Anomaly (unknown gravitational effect)
• Computer Sleuths Try To Crack Pioneer Anomaly
• Newfound Data Could Solve NASA's Great Gravity Mystery
• NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes
• Pioneer spacecraft mystery may be laid to rest
• Lights Out for Dark Matter Claim?
• Problem Detected with Voyager 2 Spacecraft at Edge of Solar System
• Scientists reconstruct the Pioneer spacecraft anomaly
• Voyager near Solar System's edge
• The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery, May Be Resolved At Last

Thanks ErnstStavroBlofeld.

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[Lancey Howard]

Yeah, and a copy of the menu to the "All they can eat buffet".

To Serve Man

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

They need these names to feed their IQ and egos