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Problem Detected with Voyager 2 Spacecraft at Edge of Solar System
Space.com ^
| 5/6/2010
| Tariq Malik
Posted on 05/08/2010 6:33:55 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Mmogamer
My 1972 Wheelhorse lawn tractor still runs. They don’t make them like they used to.
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:06:17 AM PDT
by
Freds2nd
To: Dallas59
Solid-state chips I helped make are on that space ship.
Presumably, they'll be out there 'zooming' around a million years after I'm gone.
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:08:39 AM PDT
by
blam
To: mad_as_he$$
25 years old NASA. NASA now cannot hardly launch a kids rocket.This was NASA, 25 years ago.
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:12:10 AM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Thebaddog
-455 Fahrenheit...average
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:13:12 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Dallas59
"
Because of that pattern change, mission managers can no longer decode the science data beamed to Earth from Voyager 2."
It's pretty obvious what happened. Voyager 2 saw something that the government doesn't want us to know about, so they commanded Voyager to encrypt its transmissions. It's quite possible that NASA indeed can not decrypt the transmissions, but certain other agencies within the government sure as hell can. I wonder what they saw?
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:15:21 AM PDT
by
Batrachian
(America electing Barack Obama is the moral equivalent of Palestinians electing Hamas.)
To: Batrachian
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:16:09 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Doe Eyes
NASA 1967:
“Apollo 1 (official designation Apollo/Saturn-204) was planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program to launch in February 1967. Its flight was precluded by a fatal fire on January 27, which killed all three crew members (Command Pilot Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee), and destroyed the Command Module cabin. This occurred during a pre-launch test of the spacecraft on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral. The name Apollo 1 chosen by the crew, was officially assigned retroactively in commemoration of them.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Incident
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:16:48 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Dallas59
>>>Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth
If I did the math correctly
0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years.
And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant.
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:17:53 AM PDT
by
tlb
To: Dallas59; Thebaddog
Re: How cold do you think it gets out there?
-455 Fahrenheit...average
"Absolute zero is the theoretical temperature at which entropy would reach its minimum value. The laws of thermodynamics state that absolute zero cannot be reached because this would require a thermodynamic system to be fully removed from the rest of the universe. A system at absolute zero would still possess quantum mechanical zero-point energy. While molecular motion would not cease entirely at absolute zero, the system would not have enough energy for transference to other systems. It is therefore correct to say that molecular kinetic energy is minimal at absolute zero.
By international agreement, absolute zero is defined as 0(K) on the Kelvin scale and as −273.15°C on the Celsius scale.[1] This equates to about −459.67°F on the Fahrenheit scale. Scientists have achieved temperatures very close to absolute zero, where matter exhibits quantum effects such as superconductivity and superfluidity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:31:30 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:38:58 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: tlb
0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years. And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant. So it would take Voyager... um, carry the one... a little less than a hundred thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri? If it were even going that direction...
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:42:14 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
To: tlb
Re: Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles from Earth
If I did the math correctly:
[8.6 billion miles = ] 0.0014629270371999592 Light Years (in 33 years).
Well, one light year, the distance light travels in a year at its constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 trillion miles.
And so,
8.6 divided by 5,900 = 0.0014
So you are correct.
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:45:00 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Dallas59
now bad for something prolly running what, a 8088 or 286 wi 64k or 128K ram???
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:45:29 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Doe Eyes
Yup. When rocketry was still relatively new and they got more done with half the people.
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posted on
05/08/2010 7:46:09 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(If you can read this you are the resistance.)
To: Doe Eyes
Actually upon reflection, Challenger was probably the break point where NASA went from cando to F’ed up.
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posted on
05/08/2010 8:03:15 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(If you can read this you are the resistance.)
To: Doe Eyes
Actually upon reflection, Challenger was probably the break point where NASA went from cando to F’ed up.
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posted on
05/08/2010 8:03:15 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(If you can read this you are the resistance.)
To: Dallas59
Could be ominous.
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posted on
05/08/2010 8:07:19 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: Sloth
Re: 0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years. And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant.
So it would take Voyager... um, carry the one... a little less than a hundred thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri? If it were even going that direction...
Correct.
33 years/0.0014629 LYs x 4.37 LYs = 98,500 years
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posted on
05/08/2010 8:15:00 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Absolutely. Despite a few flaws along the way.
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posted on
05/08/2010 8:17:36 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Dallas59
Can you imagine the mileage charge on the service call?
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posted on
05/08/2010 9:03:40 AM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Congress is out of order!)
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