Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space (1 minute YouTube recording)

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[LibWhacker]

Click here to hear it.

[Sherman Logan]

So where are the pictures of 7 of 9?

[Carpe Cerevisi]

It sounds like Voyager needs new brake pads.

[Yorlik803]

In space nobody can hear you scream.

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[deadrock]

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[LibWhacker]

Thought you guys might like this representation of the distance (from last year).

[central_va]

So what powers V-ger, solar panels?

[LibWhacker]

Had to look that one up on Wiki. I knew it was "nuclear," but saying just that doesn't tell a person much, and I can never seem to remember the RTG acronym, or even that the element is plutonium, so from Wiki:

Electrical power is supplied by three MHW-RTG radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). They are powered by plutonium-238 (distinct from the Pu-239 isotope used in nuclear weapons) and provided approximately 470 W at 30 volts DC when the spacecraft was launched. Plutonium-238 decays with a half-life of 87.74 years,[20] so RTGs using Pu-238 will lose a factor of 1−0.5^{1/87.74} = 0.79% of their power output per year.

(Note: it is far too far out there now for solar panels.)

[logi_cal869]

Even after reading that I still have trouble digesting that the sound is accurately depicted.

Record yourself and play the recording back at the same playback rate as the NASA video and you’ll see what I mean.

[Tanniker Smith]

Ping to watch later.

[dfwgator]

Maybe it sounded like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtrVrY1_Qq8

[zeugma]

What an amazing spacecraft. It’s over 30 AU out there. Been traveling a long time.

[BenLurkin]

Whales.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Klatu Baratta Nikto

[JRios1968]

PING!

[SevenofNine]

You know that in Star Trek 4 we still need whales in the future commuicate with Voyager right

[ops33]

When played backwards you can hear “Where’s the ka-boom. There’s supposed to be an earth shattering ka-boom. Delays, Delays.”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj, extra to APoD.

[colorado tanker]

I played it backwards. It says “Paul is dead.”

[RandallFlagg]

Mother’s deciphered part of it...it doesn’t look like an S.O.S...it looks like a warning...