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Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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Kenzie is probably right, but to think that Voyager is still going strong on '70's technology is unbelievable! Voyager - 35 years old ID: 1350384 ·  |
Darth Beaver     Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 
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I guess we will find out in approx. 2350 when Spook , Kirk , Scotty ,Sulo and team meet whot becomes of 1 of the Voyagers 
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kittyman  Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51515 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 
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Vger welcomes the carbon based lifeforms! What about the nitrogen based lifeforms in a long ago episode of Twilight Zone? Or might have been the other late night 'suppose if you will' series. Can't think of it now. Geez. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." 
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Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1388 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
You're probably thinking of "The Outer Limits' The very first episode, starring Cliff Robertson, was entitled 'Galaxy Being'. It was about a humanoid creature from the Andromeda Galaxy, whose life processes were based on a nitrogen cycle, instead of the carbon cycle, as with life on this planet. ID: 1358549 · |
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Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3
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Vger welcomes the carbon based lifeforms! That's it Chris can't remember what it was called exepts it's a trekkey movie
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Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3
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wow that old !!!but still a good 1 to watch time fly's when your having fun gess 35 yrs or so !!!!!!!!
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 edjcox  Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 96 Credit: 5,878,353 RAC: 0
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Worked at General Electrics Space Center in Valley Forge,PA. We built and tested the RTG's that provide power to the Voyagers. From 100 + Wt peak down to 1 Watt or so today, the RTG's still produce enough juice to allow a weak signal beamed back to earth to be picked up. Most of the systems aboard are inoperative as there's no power for them and the technology (including tape recorders) have long since aged past their utility. The deep space cold permeates the spacecraft and with exception of the receiversand transmitters and the RTG's little heat is present. The ancient vidicon's are also inoperative so no images are possible besides no recorders to store and play back in pieces necessary for transmission. Perhaps some day we will be able to get out there and catch up to them. Would be something to have a future Probe on its way to a nearby sun stop and pickup the voyager for future museum display... Anyways it funny to think back to those days and realize the RTG's are so very far away in Space and of course time as well..[/img] Never engage stupid people at their level, they then have the home court advantage..... ID: 1359215 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Nick  Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 
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Perhaps some day we will be able to get out there and catch up to them. Would be something to have a future Probe on its way to a nearby sun stop and pickup the voyager for future museum display... Yes Ed'...that's what I hope will happen one day. No point in leaving them out there if space technology is such that we can overtake them in space one day. Bring them back for they have shown themselves to be two technical masterpieces that deserve a place of honour in a space museum. Not only that but they do hold valuable information about the survival of technical components, ageing and so such over long periods of time in outer space. Voyager 1...Victor Voyager 2... Valerie The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. ID: 1367646 · |
Lynn  Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Gary Charpentier  Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31144 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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"By 2025, we will have to turn off the last instrument and that will be the end of the science mission," said Stone, "and the two spacecraft will then forever orbit the center of our galaxy silently." All trajectories are conic sections. (two body anyway) They don't have galactic escape velocity. Hyperbola or ellipse? 
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Allie in Vancouver  Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 
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Most astronomers set the outer edge of the solar system at the far edge of the Oort cloud which, by some estimates, is over a light-year out. It will be many, many thousands of years before they exit the solar system. Just another example of journalistic hyperbole. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein ID: 1374891 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Okay! NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble' PASADENA, Calif. -- Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. ID: 1385216 · |
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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23075332 The BBC are reporting on the Voyagers now.... The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. ID: 1385356 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Everyone... Voyager 1 Has Left the Building for Realz, New Study Says I think the jury is still out, on Voyager. ___________ The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred. Lynn ID: 1404393 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Chris and Michel.. This is what Reuters is reporting. Voyager left solar system last year, new research shows hmmmm? _________________ The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred. Lynn ID: 1404785 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Lynn, the Jury is sill out until further data can be got. I agree with you , Chris. Can't believe everything one reads. ID: 1404849 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Should have went to NASA, in the first place. NASA Voyager Statement about Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space. The model described in the paper is new and different from other models used so far to explain the data the spacecraft has been sending back from more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) away from our sun. __________________ Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows. -Jennifer Unlimited- ID: 1404870 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Voyager 2 Celebrates 36 Years In Space, Approaches Interstellar Border  ______________________ The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred. Lynn ID: 1405722 · |
Julie  Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 
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Woohoo!! Fingers crossed for both Voyagers! rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1405959 · |
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