Breaking translation: "Are Earth girls easy?"
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.
It says"Loo-see, you got some splainin to doooo!"
-PJ
I came up with “Are Earth girls easy?”
it’s QAGAAR warriors!
Breaking translation: "Are Earth girls easy?"
It is all ones and zeroes.....zeroes and ones....checksum is your friend.
“Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!”
;-)
You’re one speedy knarf! :)
Imagine if James Carville was on the data?
We are coming, we are coming for all of you! We are coming, we are coming for all of you!...............................
“How’s Jimmy Carter working out?”
The Flight Data System is finally failing.
They know what data corruption looks like.
Definitely and the Voyager 2 is far from the White House so that can’t be the problem.
V-Ger is alive.
V-Ger is coming home!
Hey, this is a family website. You can’t post that kind of language here! /sarc
Great minds ... and all of that ...
Got it! I decoded the first part of it:
“Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!”
Frickin' brilliant.
We get a call and the first thing we do is hang up on them.
(Best case we will regret losing all that ordinary data after we figure out how to unscramble what we've gotten)
The first one is out of the solar system I think, more or less.
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