Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space

ScienceNews.org ^ | December 10, 2018 | Lisa Grossman

[Joe 6-pack]

"So, you're Neil DeGrasse Tyson now? /jk

I thought he changed his name to Neil DeGrabasse Tyson....

[Macoozie]

Been going miles and mikes since 1977, and hasn’t hit anything.

My dear, beloved MIL can’t go two weeks before a fender bender,

Me like um bald chicks like VeeGer!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks colorado tanker. Instead of Johnny B Goode, it might have been more apropos to include "Great Balls of Fire" -- but of course, that would have been racist. /s

[cuban leaf]

Once TNG took over the movies, I stopped watching them - until the new series of movies came out.

All of them were free on Amazon for a while and I tried to watch, but it just felt like a TV show and all the characters just looked like actors pretending on cardboard sets. i.e. I could not suspend disbelief while watching it.

[SunkenCiv]

Nailed ThatAss Tyson?

[Night Hides Not]

I thought he changed his name to Neil DeGrabasse Tyson....

LOL, you win the Internet today!

[freedumb2003]

I hope it doesn’t run into any exploring craft from an advanced civilization.

The result could be one of the worst movies ever.

[SuperLuminal]

"They did a hell of a job building her."

Yep!

Of course that was before NASA dumped it's science goals and began striving to "stop" global warming and promote moslem diversity...

[luvbach1]

...NASA dumped it's science goals and began striving to "stop" global warming and promote moslem diversity..."

That was the 0bpmb's charter for it along with an outreach to the Muzz..

[chrisser]

"That was the 0bpmb's charter for it along with an outreach to the Muzz.. "

Well, to be fair, the Muzz are a pretty alien race in a lotta ways.

[Kommodor]

Don’t we all :)

[aquila48]

I don’t get why there would be a sudden increase in the number of cosmic rays. They’re moving near the speed of light, the very weak solar winds ain’t going to do squat to them.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Either that or just fans of Lt. Saavik

Rules, people...

[JoSixChip]

That was the 0bpmb's charter for it along with an outreach to the Muzz..

All true, but one thing we can give positive credit to obumber for is encouraging private space ventures. Without that space exploration would be stalled for generations.

[C19fan]

In the movie it is stated that V’Ger, Vyager 6, fell into a black hole ending up at the AI/Thinking Machine planet.

[ETL]

I don’t get why there would be a sudden increase in the number of cosmic rays. They’re moving near the speed of light, the very weak solar winds ain’t going to do squat to them.

It is the sun's magnetic field which deflects galactic cosmic rays. The solar wind itself is a form of cosmic rays. Apparently the field is becoming weak at the remote location where the craft is now.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Technical difficulties on Voyager One caused a delay.

[Joe 6-pack]

"In the movie it is stated that V’Ger, Vyager 6, fell into a black hole ending up at the AI/Thinking Machine planet."

Which is my point - assuming Voyager 6 was traveling at the same rate as Voyager 1/2, there would need to be a black hole within five light-days of earth...unless of course the black hole was used to somehow send the upgraded voyager back in time to 2271.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the Voyager posts. My Dad was the program manager for the power plants on these two spacecraft. His team built the Radioisotope Thermal Generators that are still powering Voyager 1 & 2. The story of the development of the RTGs is amazing by itself.

[wally_bert]

Persis was better looking in Megaforce.