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Pioneer 10 spacecraft falls silent after nearly 31 years
Associated Press
| February 25, 2003
Posted on 02/25/2003 4:51:06 PM PST by HAL9000
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posted on
02/25/2003 4:51:07 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Hopefully we can send somebody out there to find out just what the heck happened.
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posted on
02/25/2003 4:53:28 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(California wine tastes better - boycott French wine!)
To: SamAdams76
Figures. It owed me $20.
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posted on
02/25/2003 4:55:38 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
To: SamAdams76
It will eventually be displayed in the Smithsonian after it's retrieved.
To: HAL9000
Wow..
This is so captivating.. It's romantic in a way.
It's mind blowing to think of voyager as traveling across space for millions of years.. gliding by all the cold and uninhabited worlds out there.
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posted on
02/25/2003 4:58:41 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
(Jhoffa_X)
To: AppyPappy
LOL!
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posted on
02/25/2003 4:59:02 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
(Jhoffa_X)
To: HAL9000
Darn! With all the things we really need to fall silent, why this?
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:02:54 PM PST
by
joey'smom
To: Jhoffa_
Actually, it won't get to the first of the cold, uninhabited worlds for 2 million years. Maybe a few hundred million more after that it may encounter the next and so on and so on and....
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:02:57 PM PST
by
Will
To: HAL9000
"Pioneer 10....has fallen silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a mission that has lasted nearly 31 years."If you returned it to L.L. Bean's, they'd probably replace it for free.
To: SamAdams76
Hopefully we can send somebody out there to find out just what the heck happened. I'll go. I haven't been outside the solar system in ages. This place is getting boring anyway. I thought Hawking was going to figure it out, but now he's going down the wrong path too. There's nuthin' gonna happen here for a while.
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:05:43 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(Freeps Ahoy! Caribbean cruise May 31... from $610 http://www.freeper.org)
To: HAL9000
The data rate of the old Pioneer spacecraft is something like 1 byte/second. I was at JPL (test engineer) when the big upgrade to the data rate in the gigabytes/second range came with Magellan. Back then ground stations could track Pioneer with a signal as weak as one-billionth of a watt. Back then everyone was saying Pioneer was dead, and what was the point of tracking it.... "Job security" others would answer.
To: HAL9000
Captain Klaa will find it soon enough.....
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:06:15 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
To: HAL9000
that was a long run... I agree, we got our money's worth
To: *Space
To: Jhoffa_
Vio con Dios Senor Diaz
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:08:45 PM PST
by
al baby
To: HAL9000
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:13:29 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: HAL9000
Pioneer 10 spacecraft falls silent after nearly 31 yearsIt's not silent - we just can't hear it...
To: Will
In 2 million years, some yokel's gonna have what looks like a giant microwave crash through the roof of his trailer pod, and his insurance won't cover it, because it's an act of the Gods. He'll take the plaque on TV and tell everyone how weird blockheaded aliens tried to stick it in his butt, and all the talk shows will make fun of him. Eventually, it'll be displayed in somebody else's version of the little Ale 'E Inn.
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:19:31 PM PST
by
TheLurkerX
("When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." Hunter S. Thompson)
To: HAL9000; First_Salute
By God, the engineers who designed the Pioneer spacecraft were giants. Will somebody please post the image of the plaque it carried?
To: Will
There are a large number of uncharted Kuiper belt objects that it could pass. Probably won't be passing the Vulcan's home world for a while though. :)
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posted on
02/25/2003 5:23:29 PM PST
by
Brett66
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