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re: Voyager I thrusters fired for first time in 37 years
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:24 pm to reverendotis
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:24 pm to reverendotis
quote:Done with sliderules btw
As for the engineers and technicians from the 60s and 70s who worked on the Voyager project, you SOBs were either that good or that lucky
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Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:26 pm to Crow Pie
What if that is how Earth was populated. Some other race of humans sent a voyager style craft rocketing through space in an effort to learn more.
Only some dude named Bill fricked up and left some unaccounted for bacteria on the vessel.
Couple hundred thousand years later the craft crashes into Earth and the bacteria do what they do.
Meanwhile, back on the home planet that group has destroyed themselves.
Our all powerful creator is Bill, the unwashed payload specialist.
*takes blunt hit*
Only some dude named Bill fricked up and left some unaccounted for bacteria on the vessel.
Couple hundred thousand years later the craft crashes into Earth and the bacteria do what they do.
Meanwhile, back on the home planet that group has destroyed themselves.
Our all powerful creator is Bill, the unwashed payload specialist.
*takes blunt hit*
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:27 pm to Civildawg
quote:iPhone X??
How the heck do you send a command to something that far away?
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:29 pm to Civildawg
quote:
How the heck do you send a command to something that far away? Blows my mind
Electromagnetic radiation can travel at the speed of light in the vacuum of space. We have massive antennae across the world to listen for the faintest of signals that happen to come this way.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:30 pm to CptBengal
quote:It's not very smart for you to swear on a public forum.
I swear to god 90 percent of the population is too stupid to breed.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:31 pm to fightin tigers
quote:
What if that is how Earth was populated. Some other race of humans sent a voyager style craft rocketing through space in an effort to learn more.
Only some dude named Bill fricked up and left some unaccounted for bacteria on the vessel.
Couple hundred thousand years later the craft crashes into Earth and the bacteria do what they do.
Imagine that scenario if Earth was made of protomatter...
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:31 pm to reverendotis
quote:
As for the engineers and technicians from the 60s and 70s who worked on the Voyager project, you SOBs were either that good or that lucky.
That good, and here's why:
1. Space is an incredibly hostile environment for electronics.
2. They were using 1970's tech. And programs simply *had* to work the first time, bugs were simply inexcusable.
Oddly enough, 2 helps with 1. Chips with low transistor density are more resistant to radiation.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:32 pm to LSURussian
quote:
iPhone X??
Yeah Ruskie, I'm sure the gang at the JPL all have the latest Voyager app for such contingencies.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:32 pm to Pechon
I'm not impressed. There is nothing in space. Why are we surprised that things still work? What's going to degrade its function - nothing!
Also, I fail to see how this is helping NASA conduct Muslim outreach or continue efforts to fabricate that climate data.
Also, I fail to see how this is helping NASA conduct Muslim outreach or continue efforts to fabricate that climate data.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:34 pm to NC_Tigah
Year 40,272
19 hours for the transmission to return. And i thought my iPhone has been glitchy lately.
19 hours for the transmission to return. And i thought my iPhone has been glitchy lately.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:34 pm to Peazey
quote:
Or you're too stupid to recognize an obvious joke. One or the other.
actually there are three options....and the other is you;re part of the 90%.
yikes.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:35 pm to Crow Pie
quote:
It was launched in 1977, left our solar system in 2013 and wont get close(1.7 light years) to another star for 40,000 years.
To put that into perspective, that "close" encounter with another star is still about 65,000 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Or 1,300 times the distance from the Sun to the Kuiper Belt.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:36 pm to fightin tigers
quote:
Not sure if serious.... Do you know what those big dishes are for?
The first one is used mainly for radio astronomy and radar surveys of the other planets, but has been used a few times to transmit command signals to space craft with malfunctioning communication systems.
The second dish either is part of the NASA deep space network, or is very similar to those in thee network actually used to communicate with voyager.
LINK
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:40 pm to EA6B
I always assumed they used transmitters and not satellite dishes to send signals.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:42 pm to fightin tigers
quote:
Not sure if serious.... Do you know what those big dishes are for?
frick no dude. I don't know anything about the how deep space communication works. I'm sure I could google it but that wouldn't mean I'm an expert on the topic like yourself.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:45 pm to starsandstripes
quote:
I'm not impressed. There is nothing in space. Why are we surprised that things still work? What's going to degrade its function - nothing!
Other than the stress on components from the extreme temperature differential between the side of the spacecraft the facing sun, and the side facing the darkness of space, constant bombardment by radiation for 37 years, not much
This post was edited on 12/2/17 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:49 pm to foshizzle
quote:
That good, and here's why:
1. Space is an incredibly hostile environment for electronics.
2. They were using 1970's tech. And programs simply *had* to work the first time, bugs were simply inexcusable.
Oddly enough, 2 helps with 1. Chips with low transistor density are more resistant to radiation.
NASA looked at this stuff. For 191 different vehicles over the span of like 20 yrs they only logged 299 events - events included extremely minor things like an interruption of capability to major items. Not many events. Of those due to radiation they listed about 5% of them due to that.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:51 pm to Old Money
quote:
frick no dude. I don't know anything about the how deep space communication works. I'm sure I could google it but that wouldn't mean I'm an expert on the topic like yourself.
Apparently I may be wrong too. I assumed most of those were listening/receivers.
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:51 pm to reverendotis
But yet I can't get a smart phone to last one year without having battery issues. 1l
Eta of course voyager isn't constantly on XVIDEOS.COM
Eta of course voyager isn't constantly on XVIDEOS.COM
This post was edited on 12/2/17 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 12/2/17 at 8:55 pm to rantfan
You need a radioisotope thermal generator (RTG) for your phone. And some Plutonium 238 to put in it.
Should be good to go once you get those - probably on eBay.
Should be good to go once you get those - probably on eBay.
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