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Voyager 1 is sending back data from interstellar space that's mystifying NASA
- tinsmith 4y agoAhh, yes. V'ger. Who wants to place bets on when its consciousness awakens?
- Topgamer7 4y agoGood ol' esoteric Star Trek references
- mjklin 4y agoBack when we thought there would be tons of Voyagers (V’ger was meant to be Voyager 8 I believe)
- remarkEon 4y agoVoyager 6. Lost in a black hole.
- cptnapalm 4y agoThey need to send it a message to leave the nice bald lady alone.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoIIRC the nice bald lady (played by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persis_Khambatta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persis_Khambatta ) got all one could ever wish for in the end, together with former Captain Decker. Und wenn Sie nicht gestorben sind, dann Schweben Sie noch Heute!
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoWhen it meets the self-replicating vonNanomans machines, roaming the vast emptiness between the stars, integrating it into their flock.
- Jcowell 4y agoAre there a books with this premise ?
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoI don't know exactly. I think there should be. For a funny novel of a failed interstellar von Neumann probe, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_Lifemaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_Lifemaker If that is too long, or not your thing, just the prologue (linked from there) is still good enough :-)
- EdwardDiego 4y agoI love that NASA can still hack on a 45 year old probe light hours away. That's amazing engineering.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoTARS needs to do a better job decoding this for NASA before transmitting
- bern4444 4y agoA particularly interesting bit from the article: > Voyager has already relied on backup systems to last as long as it has. In 2017, the probe fired thrusters that were used during its initial planetary encounters during the 1970s -- and they still worked after remaining unused for 37 years. Incredible that the thrusters still worked after 37 years with no activity. Talk about engineering rigor.
- kwonkicker 4y agoThings last a lot longer in a vacuum
- askin4it 4y agoThat's propaganda from the home vacuum bagger racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_for_use_in_vacuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_for_use_in_vacuum Enjoy this article that the political wiki-mafia didn't find interesting enough to "fix".
- ohcomments 4y agoCame here for the comments... I'm not disappointed.