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re: In less than one year, Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:54 am to Stexas
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:54 am to Stexas
They can work similar to that when broadcast out of a regular antenna (like a CB antenna) or they can be directed with a different kind of antenna, like a dish.
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Posted on 12/11/25 at 8:01 am to cgrand
And when it runs out of fuel, Shatner will still probably be alive.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 8:07 am to reverendotis
I wonder if alien spacecraft have record players on them...
Voyager's golden record.
Voyager's golden record.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 8:10 am to reverendotis
Is it Voyaging past Uranus ?
Posted on 12/11/25 at 8:14 am to reverendotis
quote:that rules out it being one of our LLOTOT
relatively tiny receiver.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 8:17 am to reverendotis
This is a good video on the Voyager 1 & 2 missions. *Note* it is long +2 hours, get a comfortable seat.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 8:38 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
The 70’s folks could send two probes to interstellar space with contact back with earth in the 2020s
2020’s folks cannot build a durable vehicle engine to be as reliable as engines built two decades prior.
Absolutely unbelievable.
2020’s folks cannot build a durable vehicle engine to be as reliable as engines built two decades prior.
Absolutely unbelievable.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 9:14 am to reverendotis
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11 miles per second
Seen faster thieves in the Quad on a Wednesday
Posted on 12/11/25 at 9:42 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:Instead of using radio waves, lasers can be used anywhere within our solar system more efficiently and with 100x more data. Both radio waves and laser travel at 186k miles per second so there's no gain on how long it would take for a command to be received or transmitted back were Voyager 1 able to receive laser transmission.
They can work similar to that when broadcast out of a regular antenna (like a CB antenna) or they can be directed with a different kind of antenna, like a dish.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 9:51 am to WWII Collector
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"Send more Chuck Berry"
And less Cardi B...
Reminds me of Futurama when aliens invade Earth looking for the ending of a TV show called Single Female Lawyer that Fry interupted back in 1999 delivering a pizza.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:01 am to CleverUserName
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2020’s folks cannot build a durable vehicle engine to be as reliable as engines built two decades prior.
cannot is different than will not
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:10 am to UptownJoeBrown
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Why not post this until it’s actually one light day from Earth?
Then how will the retards have time to go buy up all the toilet paper?
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:21 am to reverendotis
At Voyager1's speed(38,000ish mph), it would take 77,380 years to get to Proxima Centauri B (4.24 lightyears away), the closest potential habitable exoplanet.
We ain't going nowhere lol
ETA - For reference, Apollo 10 was the fastest humans have travelled in a man made craft at about 25,000 mph.
We ain't going nowhere lol
ETA - For reference, Apollo 10 was the fastest humans have travelled in a man made craft at about 25,000 mph.
This post was edited on 12/11/25 at 10:25 am
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:28 am to reverendotis
So, so when you figur it will bump up against the ceiling of the sky. And, and when will NASA build and dispatch a spaceship with Astronauts who can put their ears to that ceiling to determine if there's activity on the other side? Inquiring minds want to know, eh?
You know, find out what's on the other side of the ceiling of the sky?
......and who is the guy Yahweh?
So many questions, so few answers.
You know, find out what's on the other side of the ceiling of the sky?
......and who is the guy Yahweh?
So many questions, so few answers.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:28 am to Bestbank Tiger
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We need to do another one using modern tech. It'll be smaller, faster, more durable, and have better communication.
This works out swell when you buy a new appliances.
No thank you. I’ll keep my green ones
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:59 am to Bestbank Tiger
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We need to do another one using modern tech. It'll be smaller, faster, more durable, and have better communication.
Is that what New Horizons - the probe that took pictures of Pluto - is doing?
Posted on 12/11/25 at 10:59 am to UptownJoeBrown
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Why not post this until it’s actually one light day from Earth?
Duh, because of the speed of the internet would somehow make it inverse to the actual day the day before. Figured everyone knew that.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:26 am to reverendotis
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One of the best statistics isn't a superlative (farthest, fastest, oldest, etc) it is how slow it communicates, 160 bits per second.
101101001001011001101
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:33 am to CAD703X
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All fun and games until it's swallowed up by that giant cloud and comes back to Earth and tries to kill us.
That is a problem I have with that movie. They had to travel a pretty good ways at FTL speed (we know this because they went to warp speed to get there and even got stuck in a worm hole thing) to get to the cloud thing. V'ger has been gone about 50 years and has made it one light day. Star Trek TMP takes place about 200 years in the future, so V'ger would be about 4 light days away.
But, in the movie, they had to exceed Warp 8 or 9 (this would be exponential-like speed of light to the 8th or 9th power) to get to V'ger fast to deal with the emergency. My back of napkin calculations say they should have made it to V'ger in about like less than a minute. Maybe I'm wrong because those are some big numbers to deal with.
I guess maybe the answer is that V'ger comes in contact with something and becomes a self-aware thing and spends the next 150 years wheeling through the galaxy learning all kinds of cool stuff before heading home to meet the maker.
This post was edited on 12/11/25 at 11:36 am
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:41 am to wareaglepete
quote:whats to say the cloud didn't catch voyager while it was heading a different direction and kept going for awhile until it decided to take v'ger home?
My back of napkin calculations say they should have made it to V'ger in about like less than a minute. Maybe I'm wrong because those are some big numbers to deal with.
you're assuming the cloud immediately turned towards Earth immediately after absorbing v'ger.
also, maybe voyager hit a wormhole or singularity somewhere and it shot it across the universe and spit it out in the cloud's domain aka Q and the the Borg 'finger snap'.
also maybe the cloud was taking care of business killing other planets.
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