soon to be Veger?
Soon to be V’ger?
Someone alert Steven Collins!!!!!
The gate is down.
The universe is one big “being”. The Solar system is one atom. Voyager is a cancer cell. Just a thought.
/mark
sounds like they are still in communication with it. thats astounding. i wonder how long it takes to get a message back?
Cruising along at just Warp 3 would mean we could catch it in just over half an hour.
It is about 12 billion miles out.
Warp 3 is 27 times the speed of light.
To put it in perspective, Voyager 1 is nearly 4 times the distance from the Sun as the distance between the Sun and Neptune. The effective power of the transmitted signal is about 1/16 (6%) of the power when Voyager was at the orbit of Neptune.
Then there is this. Last time I got reimbursed for POV mileage at government rates, I got 50 cents a mile. The Voyager will have to travel another 25 billion miles, at present velocity, or 77 more years, before NASA can claim reimbursable mileage from Voyager to cover this year’s NASA budget.
And it only had to travel 10.8 billion miles over 33 years to find out the solar winds are zero out there.
Just sayin’
The NappyOne
“...in about four years.”
So why post this non-story now?
Houston -- NASA directors announced a new amalgum of sorely needed efforts to study the impact and significance of "Voyager," particularly with its sensor recordings dealing with Earth Global Warming [er] Climate Change.
As Obama nominated NASA Director of Bullshitheitgefuhrer, Herr Direktor Sphinktor explains, "Vee muss retrieveshchung diese data und incorporatchimeinikechung diese results im der catalogie fur das Climatishergefraudgemineishigusung Bibliotecha!"
Ok. Space is always so confusing to me. Let me try to explain my confusion. Say for example all the the planets in the solar system were lined up on a horizontal plane, going East to West. If you launched a probe that exited Earth at the North Pole and kept going North, wouldn’t you be “out of the solar system” in about an hour?
In the Stars: Onward, Voyager! (Voyager 1 and 2 leave the Solar system)
Science Daily | May 27 | Phil Berardelli
Posted on 05/27/2005 9:16:42 PM PDT by Arkie2
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