Posted on 12/10/2007 7:59:55 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Voyagers’ radioactively powered batteries are estimated to run out of juice—sometime between 2020 and 2025,”
Man I need some double AA’s that will last that long!!!<==<<
Once they leave the solar system, can’t they just switch from impulse to warp drive?
Maybe they will show up in cars....some day.
That’s a later technology...these are Model T’s.
How long yeh think until we have to start buying Bow Wave Shock Offsets from Al Gore?
OK - which one of you sat on it?
Yea, that idiot Algored selling those stupid carbon credits is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of or imagined.
Remember those old 40’s and 50’s western movies where the snake oil salesman had a sneaky untrustworthy personality ?
That is Algored to a T.
Trust him as far as I could throw him, as with his hulking tedkennedy girth, that would not be very far......
Amazing. I can’t believe the voyager is still operating. I remember when they launched it. It must’ve been 30 to 35 years ago. The last time I heard anything about the voyager, I think it was passing the rings of saturn, or somethign like that.
Remember the movie 2001 space odessy, when the machine’s name was v ger? Because the o and the y got wiped off?
I’ve probably paid Cosco enough for D cells in the past 15 years that I could have bought a couple of the radioactive batteries and still have money left over for a case of wine!
The funniest part is, idiots buy them. Iirc, there’s even airline companies that are starting to sell them to customers that want to “offset” their carbon expenses acquired from traveling.
To me, this smells more like the holy relic salesmen of the old medieval europe.
Knuckle bone of a saint! Guaranteed to absolve at least 3 mortal sins!
I thought that was the first Star Trek movie.
They have 14 billion miles for one and 122 billion for the other in 2020—there must be a typo (I think it should be 12 billion, not 122 billion), since the latter one is traveling more slowly.
Space Ping
As for the thread itself, it’s some really really cool stuff.
I know a woman that has a toy that is run by "D" batteries that seems to run all night every night. I'd love to be those batteries.
This stuff is fascinating as heck, but over my head.
Voyager 1 travels at about 11 miles per second.
How does it stay on course when hit with solar winds that can be from 60 miles per second to 250 miles per second ?
what or how is voyager propelled ? I read about the nuclear fuel and converting heat to electicity, but what propels it ?
Was it? I can’t remember. THat was a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away. That came from “the last starfighter”, I think.
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