Wow, Voyager 1 calls home!!
After 37 years of silence.
How can we be sure it is not space aliens toying with our toy??? jk jk
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03/29/2018 5:54:55 PM PDT by
Enchante
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To: Enchante
Calling after 37 years?
Must want money.
2 posted on
03/29/2018 5:56:38 PM PDT by
Arm_Bears
(Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
To: Enchante
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
3 posted on
03/29/2018 5:56:44 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Enchante
I’m not sure what “safely test the thrusters” could mean in this context — if they didn’t succeed then we would never be hearing from the spacecraft again anyway, so how is there any risk to trying something?
4 posted on
03/29/2018 5:56:45 PM PDT by
Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: Enchante
Carbon units, you will tell us where the maker is:
5 posted on
03/29/2018 5:57:55 PM PDT by
DCBryan1
(Quit calling them liberals, progressives, or Democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!)
To: Enchante
It’s cold and lonely out here
To: Enchante
We better answer. We don’t want V’ger to return like in Star Trek 1.
To: Enchante
>>software that was coded in an outdated assembler language
I guess to “tech startups” maybe
9 posted on
03/29/2018 5:59:20 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge)
To: Enchante
Calls home using the power plant my Dad’s team at GE made for the Voyagers! He showed me some incredible videos of a test train crashing into a concrete barrier to prove that the cask containing the plutonium wouldn’t crack and spew its deadly contents over the land if the rocket crashed on liftoff.
To: Enchante
It is claiming she slept with Trump
13 posted on
03/29/2018 6:02:40 PM PDT by
al baby
(Hi Mom Hi Dad)
To: Enchante
I’m confused and it may be the article. It’s not that we haven’t communicated with Voyager 1 for 37 years, it’s that those particular retro nozzles haven’t been activated for 37 years?
Or am I reading the whole story wrong?
14 posted on
03/29/2018 6:02:46 PM PDT by
Fhios
(Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
To: Enchante
Wow, Voyager 1 calls home!! After 37 years of silence. Probably needs money.
15 posted on
03/29/2018 6:02:52 PM PDT by
ETL
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To: Enchante
It’s not 37 years of silence, it’s just 37 years since those particular thrusters have been used. Which is still amazing. The craft has been in contact with earth all along. Which is even more amazing. I just started my freshman year in college when it was launched, and now I’m contemplating retirement in a few years.
16 posted on
03/29/2018 6:04:32 PM PDT by
henkster
(Monsters from the Id.)
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18 posted on
03/29/2018 6:06:09 PM PDT by
aspasia
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19 posted on
03/29/2018 6:07:01 PM PDT by
PGalt
To: Enchante
Voyager does not have a home to return to.
Or does it?
21 posted on
03/29/2018 6:09:28 PM PDT by
353FMG
To: Enchante
Does assembler ever become outdated?
To: Enchante
Take that all you countries that have switched to the metric system!
24 posted on
03/29/2018 6:15:02 PM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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28 posted on
03/29/2018 6:24:51 PM PDT by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
To: Enchante
The Voyager series of spacecraft were the first to use a convolutional code and the new Viterbi algorithm for decoding which allowed error correction of exceedingly weak signals like we are now receiving. Dr. Viterbi went on in later years to found a little outfit called Qualcomm.
29 posted on
03/29/2018 6:26:13 PM PDT by
SpaceBar
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Aliens commandeered it. Count on it!
30 posted on
03/29/2018 6:28:26 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
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