Posted on 11/03/2020 2:38:42 PM PST by blueplum
Election Day may have us tied up in anxious knots today. But we can also take solace in the fact that nearly 12 billion miles away, one of humanity's greatest achievements is twinkling back at us, and our understanding of the mysteries of the universe continues to unfold....
...After a seven-month hiatus without being able to command Voyager 2, NASA is now able to communicate new directions and procedures to the craft, the agency announced.
The Voyager 2 space probe, launched in August 1977, has been traveling outward for more than 43 years visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Astounding to think that the computer onboard has '200,000 times less' memory than an average smart phone of today, but it's still chugging 4-plus decades after launch
Good sign. The Communist News Network is trying to distract its dozen viewers from the election.
It’s VGER!!!
Beaming back from space. GOD loves President Trump.
That suckers nuclear.
Does anybody know who sent them?
Faulty....error....
BEAT me to it!
"Be sure to drink..."
Voyager sending 30 electoral votes from Mars to President Trump!
Trying to send a vote from space for Biden.
“You got a command for me? Okay... Yeah, I reckon I do that. Gonna take me awhile, though... You don’t mind a wait, do ya?”
...And I wonder: how long does it take to send out a signal to Voyager 2? And for the signal to return? I imagine it is nearly the same time. The time for the round trip will no doubt surprise me.
Beat me by 4 seconds.
I hope the command wasn’t “learn all there is and return it to the ceator.”
ST:TMP plot was based on a TOS episode “ The Changeling”.
The Voyager team is interesting. Using technology from long ago that only a few understand.
My son is an astronautical engineer at NASA. His first job was flight operations on a solar observation satellite. It launched the month he was born for a two year mission.
At some point, something broke and the satellite lost contact for several years. Suddenly one say they regained contact and it’s been performing it’s mission since.
He was about 20 and still in college when he interviewed. He actually said he was born for this job.
Hey, now that was funny!
*****
:)
Canbeera. My Aussie in-laws are going to love that. It’s quite accurate.
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