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Posted on 05/13/2010 8:28:07 AM PDT by Braak
IT left Earth 33 years ago, now it's claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode.
NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.
But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!
The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?
Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth" Read more in Bild
Engineers are working to solve the data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said today.
The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.
Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most distant human-made objects.
Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space.
Voyager 2 will follow after that.
Don't get me started!
Gregorian chants--music for the masses!
Thanks!
Someone sees a pattern - or this "research" is being done by out of work global warming specialists....
It’s like sending a map of lost children to a camp of pedophiles...
Sounds like Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin found a new gig.
I have a large console stereo that plays (yes it works just fine) 45s, 33s, 8 tracks, AM & FM radio. The sound quality is better, in some ways, than anything I hear on CDs, probably due to the speakers.
I’ve kept it in excellent condition. The wood cabinet is just lovely.
By being smart and spending more time thinking about the issue than anyone else.
It's kind of like when I became the local Ada expert at the defense contractor I used to work for before there were any viable commercial Ada compilers. I didn't call myself that, but I still knew more than anyone else around me.
I'll bet just about anything though that if he read that he was being called an "expert", he'd cringe. If he doesn't cringe, then he's a loon. Only the insane (or liars) proclaim themselves as experts. It should be obvious. QED.
If you mean that as a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer - no.
The last thing I want is a bunch of liquored up aliens doing a drive by past my planet.
I suppose it could come down to that, but while we do not have technology to go star hopping and others potentially do, it's just better that we keep a low profile until we can.
We're at the bottom of a gravity well, so minerals are probably not valuable enough for someone to want to wipe us out for that. Certain biochems might be though and the first aliens to visit us could well be in search of new recreational drugs.
For whatever reason, I've been thinking a lot about alien invasions since around November 2008. Sigh.
+1 for The Sphere.
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