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re: Voyager 1 sending back mysterious data to NASA.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:24 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:24 pm to Darth_Vader
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has vastly less computing capability than the phone in your hand.
Ha! Probably doesn’t even have porn on it. Loser NASA.
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Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:24 pm to Emteein
Radioactive powered
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:26 pm to Wolfhound45
NOMAD never asked to be mind-melded.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:26 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:27 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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scientists on the mission recently noticed that it appeared confused about its location in space without going into safe mode or otherwise sounding an alarm.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:28 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:28 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Pretty sure they anticipate the plutonium powered batteries to run out in the next few years….
However, it will still keep traveling as it’s outside the gravitational force of the sun compared to its outward energy. I think it will burn up in like 50,000 years when it gets closer to some constellation
However, it will still keep traveling as it’s outside the gravitational force of the sun compared to its outward energy. I think it will burn up in like 50,000 years when it gets closer to some constellation
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:28 pm to StringedInstruments
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Ha! Probably doesn’t even have porn on it. Loser NASA.
Well, it’s got a nekked man and woman on it.
Remember, this is NASA we’re talking about. They think of everything.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:29 pm to Emteein
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A few questions: how does it still have power? How is it still sending a signal back to earth? I can barely catch wifi in every room, yet from billions of miles away it can send data.
Uses a decaying nuclear source to produce heat that keeps the electronics from freezing, and is converted to electricity using sort of a reverse pelter junction technology. The signal is so faint it requires a 150 foot dish to capture it, and the data rate is so slow it takes weeks to collect even very small amounts of data.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:29 pm to LSUPilot07
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I’m shocked it’s still transmitting after all these years. You know it has to hit all kind of space debris from asteroids and such it might just be finally starting to shite out.
Nah. The reason space is called "space" and not "all kind of space debris from asteroids and such" is because it's almost entirely... space.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:31 pm to IT_Dawg
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Pretty sure they anticipate the plutonium powered batteries to run out in the next few years….
Does it have batteries or is it purely running on plutonium decay because that could give it juice for a few years.
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:32 pm to UndercoverBryologist
It was assembled here in a room with normal gravity, it’s getting to parts in space where gravity, time, and distance play by vastly different rules than here on earth. Not surprising to see this but it is interesting AF nonetheless.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:34 pm to StringedInstruments
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Ha! Probably doesn’t even have porn on it. Loser NASA.
Two of the pictures on the gold record are about human sex organs and conception.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:34 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Voyager 1 is the definition of KISS principle.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:36 pm to Emteein
Im just a normal IT nerd and guessing here...
Very low power requirements? Just moving with momentum, no thrusters.
Very very low frequency waves, very very low bandwidth
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how does it still have power?
Very low power requirements? Just moving with momentum, no thrusters.
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How is it still sending a signal back to earth
Very very low frequency waves, very very low bandwidth
This post was edited on 5/18/22 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:37 pm to EA6B
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The signal is so faint it requires a 150 foot dish to capture it, and the data rate is so slow it takes weeks to collect even very small amounts of data.
I remember reading that the signal back to earth is not as strong as a two "D" cell battery flashlight.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:38 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:38 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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time, and distance play by vastly different rules than here on earth.
Wat
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:41 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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scientists on the mission recently noticed that it appeared confused about its location in space without going into safe mode or otherwise sounding an alarm.
You're supposed to hold it over your head and move it in a figure 8 pattern.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:42 pm to Hulkklogan
It's using heat from a decaying radioactive source for power. No thrusters. It's just bouncing between gravitational forces. Some nerds did some mad math to set this thing on the path It's been on.
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