Logical
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.
Cran-bury Sau-ce?
Think about the TV signals of Carter just reaching other systems. Some alien species probably thinks we would be push overs for an invasion with a leader like Carter.
bttt
Americans could never be that dumb again, could they?
Its a warp in the space time continuum.
I am . . . Ton Roo . . . Ton Roo . . .
So, all they hear is Radio Ga-Ga?
Is it really a wise idea to broadcast our presence to the universe? I mean, do you really think those able to receive the message would visit us for non-selfish reason? Think it better to lay low for a few more centuries. The last thing I want is a bunch of liquored up aliens doing a drive by past my planet.
Legal or illegal?
bttt
Easy, there - I still have some 8-tracks around somewhere ....
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Only one translation is possible: Mega Dittos!
Apparently, JPL and NASA may have an idea on this...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-SJLFf9I8xLsUL17LPPN1dVC9lQD9FHJ0980
Yeah, things could get a lot worse than that.
now that made me laugh
Probably those Plutonians sending a message with profanities due to their being de-classified as a planet.
Message: Keep your primitive junk out of my yard!.......................
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