Go, Go Voyager 1!!!

[c0rbin]

I love this stuff.

Tripping out into the void.

Link to CNN Article (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/05/voyager.solar.boundary/index.html)

Only 40,000 more years to the next star!

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Man, this sure gives you the heebie-jeebies about the vastness of space and the meaninglessness of time. Amazing.

~~ Paul

[Ursa Major]

I thought Pioneer 10 had already left the Solar system. What happened? Did they re-set the goal posts?

[TillEulenspiegel]

Pioneer 10 is 7.8 BK away
Voyager 1 is 13.5 leaving the solar system is different then breaching the heliopause
But you gotta love em both...The little spacecraft that could =)

[Rolfe]

Vijar. Where Nomad has gone before....

Oh, I guess you had to be there. (Virtual Mars bar for the first person to post the reference for this flippant remark, complete with explanation of the "Nomad" bit.)

Rolfe.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Rolfe
Vijar. Where Nomad has gone before....

Oh, I guess you had to be there. (Virtual Mars bar for the first person to post the reference for this flippant remark, complete with explanation of the "Nomad" bit.)It comes from Star Trek: the Motion Picture. Voyager VI had somehow found its way to a planet of sentient machines, which fixed it up and made it one of them, as it were. The nameplate was damaged, so that it read "V'Ger". The story is remarkably similar to an earlier episode of Star Trek, called The Changeling (I think). Essentially the same plot, with Voyager VI replaced by a probe called NOMAD.

[Rolfe]

Wow, that was quick. Virtual Mars bar to Martin! (OK, I got the spelling of the probe wrong, who said I was perfect....)

Rolfe.

[Martin]

You didn't think a challenge like that would go unanswered for long, did you? On this forum? :p

[TillEulenspiegel]

Man I didn't get the chance to answer =(
But the prize...Is that a bar like in mars bar chocolate w/ almonds or the place were one could watch Cptn. Pikes green girlfriend dance half nekked?

[athon]

I heard it's still sending signals. Does anybody know if these signals are useful for anything? Is it sending information of any type?

Athon

[Dragon]

Originally posted by athon
I heard it's still sending signals. Does anybody know if these signals are useful for anything? Is it sending information of any type?

Athon
Apparently so - here's the Nature (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v426/n6962/full/426021a_fs.html) article.
Isn't this stuff many, many times more interesting and inspiring than all the piddling "psychic" phenomena and religious revaltions put together?

[Interesting Ian]

Originally posted by c0rbin
I love this stuff.

Tripping out into the void.

Link to CNN Article (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/05/voyager.solar.boundary/index.html)

Only 40,000 more years to the next star!

If anyone ever does find it, it will be our remote descendents. LOL

[Kullervo]

Given the uncertain nature of time, could also be our remote ancestors.

[bjornart]

Originally posted by Martin
It comes from Star Trek: the Motion Picture. Voyager VI had somehow found its way to a planet of sentient machines, which fixed it up and made it one of them, as it were. The nameplate was damaged, so that it read "V'Ger". The story is remarkably similar to an earlier episode of Star Trek, called The Changeling (I think). Essentially the same plot, with Voyager VI replaced by a probe called NOMAD.

One of my pet peeves that. HTF did they know from four letters on a dirty nameplate how to pronounce the mangled name? And would machine intelligences know how to clean? Aaaagh. :D

[TillEulenspiegel]

OK Ian that's funny as sht. here she is in green.

[ceptimus]

I expect it will be a tourist attraction one day. There will be suugestions that it should be retrieved and put in a museum somewhere. But I hope the, 'leave it in its natural place' argument wins out. Travellers on their way to and from the solar system will stop by to look at it. Maybe an inter-stellar coffee bar and souvenir shop will be set up nearby.

[EdipisReks]

orion slave girls are keen.

[uneasy]

I think you are mixing up your Star Trek shows. It think the heliopause is that barrier that will give Voyager phsychic powers when it tries to cross it.

I never heard of the heliopause before this story. Here we are getting buffetted by solar wind, and at the same time the whole dang solar system is being buffeted with galactic wind.

I wonder if the heliopause could be surfed with a really, really huge light sail surf board. :)

[TillEulenspiegel]

I'm sorry to disagree but the heliopause is where a star aproches middle age not only cant it have any more baby suns , but thier behavior becomes unpredictable and subject to hot plasma jets, spots and ejecting hugh amounts of mass for no particular reason.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Sol is CMEing:D

[Zep]

Originally posted by Dragon

Isn't this stuff many, many times more interesting and inspiring than all the piddling "psychic" phenomena and religious revaltions put together? So SERIOUSLY agree with this.