Voyager 1 Just Phoned Home From 24 Billion Kilometers Away On A Transmitter Not Used Since 1981

IFL Science ^ | October 31, 2024 | Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

[tennmountainman]

NASA built both Voyager’s based on talent and merit hires of their employees.
Not like today where hires are based on DEI, not merit.

[Roadrunner383]

My radar detector has X-band capability, but I leave it turned off, almost no locations use X-band radar guns anymore.

[Red Badger]

Don’t most of them use Laser now?.............

[TheDon]

Miles and kilometers are not useful on such a scale.

[Roadrunner383]

Clarify, I leave X-band disabled on my detector, K-Band and KA-band are still widely used by police.

[Roadrunner383]

“Don’t most of them use Laser now?.............”

A lot of laser, but coming back 380 miles from the FL Panhandle to N.GA I ran into a lot of police using radar.

[Larry Lucido]

Problem is they called collect.

[Red Badger]

Dukes of Hazzard Sherriff Roscoe P. Coltrane used a Hair Dryer.............

[Reddy]

Wasn’t V-ger featured in a Star Trek movie about 30 years ago??

[fwdude]

I keep bringing up the fact that the U.S. put a man on the moon, launched amazing missions like Voyager, all without the DEI and “gay” agenda requirements. In fact, most of the world criminalized open homosexuality as of 1977.

[Red Badger]

Star Trek - The Motion Picture, 1979................

[Spktyr]

There is a new generation of instant-on X-band police radar starting to show up out there now, FYI

[blitz128]

Or did it😎
Not saying it’s…… but it’s …….
Vger

[blitz128]

😂

[DarrellZero]

This code was written in the mid-70s and runs on the equivalent of a Commodore 64. No AI, and someone 50 years ago foresaw that error and programmed it to fall back to S-band. Remarkable.

[Resolute Conservative]

Kelly Johnson would not be happy today.

[MeanWestTexan]

Well, it’s roughly 1 light day away.

A light year is 5,879,000,000,000 miles

Divide that by 365 and you have your answer.

[Varsity Flight]

S t e r a l i z e

[cableguymn]

see? when they want, they can make electronics that last and last and last...

[SunkenCiv]

:^) No wonder the aliens picked Voyager to make contact with Earth.