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How many years until V'Ger returns home?

• prawn 16y ago
  For anyone who didn't get the 'joke' (like me) and who knows nothing about Star Trek (also me), turns out that "V'Ger" is a Star Trek character. From Wikipedia: "A sentient being that evolved from Voyager 6, a fictitious space probe from the 20th Century that vanished into a black hole and was given life by a race of living machines. The story of V'ger and its return to Earth to seek "the creator" forms the plot for the first feature film in the Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
  • reallyacow 16y ago
    I'm personally waiting for V-GINY.
    • blhack 16y ago
      (For anybody curious, this is a reference to an episode of Futurama, which was an homage to the Star Trek episode. In Futurama "V-GINY" is the result of an FCC "v-chip" which was mounted on a space probe coming back to earth to cleanse earth or "inappropriate content". You can read about this, here: http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/V-GINY http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/V-GINY)
    • coderdude 16y ago
      It must suck to create a new account, just to have your first comment failguy out and render your account useless. Won't the auto-kill feature just automatically deaden any future posts from this guy? Seems like a poor way to nurture possible good HNizens who make a mistake or two in the beginning. Technically he was only following the example of the V'Ger guy who isn't being downvoted.
      • prawn 16y ago
        V'Ger guy was being downvoted initially.