NASA Gets Response From Spacecraft 13 Billion Miles Away

Science Vibe ^ | 18th March 2018 | Stefan Nestorov

[sparklite2]

NASA has just received a response from the void, and believers everywhere are losing their collective minds.

After 37 years of inactivity, the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 fired up its thrusters for the first time in nearly four decades all the way over in interstellar space.

This incredible – and unsuspected – triumph means Voyager 1 can once again communicate with Earth, from 13 billion miles away.

[Terry Mross]

It was “V ger”. Dust was covering the “oya” so the computer saw V Ger. However, looking from inside it should have been backwards. But it wasn’t a documentary.

[faithhopecharity]

Absolutely amazing. Voyager can communicate with us from 13,000,000,000 miles distance. And yet, the average spouse frequently can’t manage much more than a grunt from across the mattress. Go figure!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My Dad was the project manager for the power plant on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2! Those radio waves we are now receiving were created from power generated in his RTGs.

He built the most amazing stuff in his incredible career. RIP, Dad. You would have loved to hear this news.

[Secret Agent Man]

its more like 1164 minutes.

[PA Engineer]

Oh no! We left a road map back to earth.



V'ger? Phone home.

[PLMerite]

“NASA Gets Response From Spacecraft 13 Billion Miles Away”

“...can I come home, now?”

[Mastador1]

Was there a bald-headed chick from India there?

Yup, she was strokin her V'Ger and got it fired up!

[FirstFlaBn]

Or - Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

[Paul R.]

Voyager got a better night’s sleep?

[JustaTech]

Someday (soon I hope) we’ll send out a probe that passes Voyager in a matter of days on it’s way to a nearby star.

Then a decade or two later, we’ll send out something that passes THAT probe in a matter of days, on its way to the same destination at a much faster speed.

With any luck, when the latest and fastest probe finally arrives at the nearby star system, we’ll have been there for decades already by virtue of something like a warp drive.

[Getready]

Persis kambata.....i believe...dont know her real name...but i remember she was very nice looking when clothed in her natural hair....as a side question...i wonder how physically wide the radio signal from earth to.voyager is at 20 light minutes away and how many watts does it take to get a signal that far..

[fso301]

On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Voyager engineers fired up the four thrusters and waited eagerly as the test results traveled through space, taking 19 hours and 35 minutes to reach an antenna in part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, at Goldstone, California.

[outofsalt]

In fulfillment of it’s Muslim outreach mission it radioed,
“Allah bored”

[Vermont Lt]

I have a 5 watt hand held 2 meter radio. IF I can hit a repeater, I might hit 20 miles.

I would hate to think our silly transmissions are readable 20 light hours away.

[fedupjohn]

Post #12

That is too funny...LMAO

[Yo-Yo]

So after all these years, it’s 19 light hours away. A few hours short of a light year.

About 364 days short of a light year.

[faithhopecharity]

Yes indeed!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A few hours short of a light day. For someone traveling at relativistic speed, it would only take a few minutes in his local time frame. But the necessary acceleration would kill him.

[from occupied ga]

I think it would take about 20 minutes for the signal to travel that distance

More like 19 hours

[from occupied ga]

So after all these years, it’s 19 light hours away. A few hours short of a light year.

Indeed. Yet there are people on this forum that think we should colonize the stars (people who apparently failed 4th grade math or who confuse science fiction with science)