Posted on 06/13/2022 10:16:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Thanks to Pioneer 10's pictures, the planet Jupiter and its moons, which were formerly only small circles in a telescope, became large, vibrant worlds in the eyes of scientists. For decades after those images beamed back to Earth, Pioneer 10 kept going. It sent valuable scientific data about the sun and cosmic rays before its signal became too faint for Earthlings to hear.
Pioneer 10 also carries a plaque with a message to any intelligent life it might encounter on its journey. The Pioneer plaque includes diagrams of Earth's location and drawings of a man and a woman
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I love it.
The Ferengi when they came across the Pioneer probe thought that humans walked around naked.
Sort of like an interstellar sign that says the equivalent of, “Eat at Joe’s!”
I think I remember that. Funny. That was when TV was watchable, instead of woke and boring. I did reduce the size if the image a little out of, uh, courtesy.
Voyager is beyond our solar system now. I’m not sure if that puts it out on the street at the end of the driveway, or perhaps at the end of the block, or at the outskirts of town.
I would go with at the edge of town, with miles and miles of Kansas prairie before the next town.
Found the following on the interwebs:
“Voyager 1’s next big encounter will take place in 40,000 years, when the probe comes within 1.7 light-years of the star AC +79 3888. (The star is roughly 17.5 light-years from Earth.)”
Hmm. 40,000 years ago is when the Neanderthal’s starting dying off and Homo Sapiens were taking over. Maybe in another 40,000 years it will be us dying off and the aliens taking over. (Assuming that the aliens have technology to move themselves around the universe fast, which I think is a huge if.)
I think they are off on their math though. From what I could find, Voyager 1 is traveling at 18,000 years per light year. So 17.5 light years it will be 315,000 years to close to the star. And I’m guessing it would need to make a turn to get to the star (which it can’t do), and that would take another 30,000 years.
(300,000 years ago is around the time hominoids started using controlled fire to work tools)
“That was how tight security was.”
Lol—tight security to send out plans to how to locate Earth to invade it....
You can’t make up this stuff.
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