V-ger will return

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besilarius

March 28, 2018, 06:40:50 AM
https://techstartups.com/2018/03/22/nasa-receives-response-from-voyager-1-spacecraft-13-billion-miles-away-after-37-years-of-inactivity/

Flabbergasted.  NASA did some great work there.
All I can think of is the german captain in "The Enemy Below". 
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Barthheart

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March 28, 2018, 06:48:11 AM
 :o
:bd:

BanzaiCat

#2
March 28, 2018, 07:24:43 AM
Holy crap, it's halfway to Alpha Centauri? That can't be right.

Barthheart

#3
March 28, 2018, 07:47:23 AM
Not even close, Alpha is 41.32 trillion km away, V-ger is only 18.8 billion km.

BanzaiCat

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March 28, 2018, 07:48:27 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on March 28, 2018, 07:47:23 AM
Not even close, Alpha is 41.32 trillion km away, V-ger is only 18.8 billion km.

I was gonna say...stupid Internet lies!

Barthheart

#5
March 28, 2018, 07:53:43 AM
The scale in that picture is a log scale in AUs (astronomical units - 1 AU = distance from Earth to Sun)

Saturn is 10 AUs from the Sun.
V-ger is currently 100 AUs out.
Alpha is between 10,000 and 1,000,000 AUs out.

DoctorQuest

#6
March 28, 2018, 09:39:43 AM
I can't find it on the PBS site right now but Nova did a very good show on Voyager not too long ago. It is really an amazing story. Got some serious space geek on with that one. 
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JasonPratt

#7
March 28, 2018, 11:56:17 AM
One of the significant plot-points from the epic fanfic HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY, following the premise that everyone, especially Voldemort, acts as competently as possible, is that Voldy either put a horcrux on Voyager or made it into a horcrux. Whenever he needs a time out from his busy plotting and just can't stand being around people anymore (which is part of his problem), he'll tap into where Voyager is and stargaze for a while in the vastness of space.

(...that was the only other pop culture reference to Voyager I could recall, aside from V-ger already used...)
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BanzaiCat

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March 28, 2018, 08:45:09 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 28, 2018, 11:56:17 AM
One of the significant plot-points from the epic fanfic HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY, following the premise that everyone, especially Voldemort, acts as competently as possible, is that Voldy either put a horcrux on Voyager or made it into a horcrux. Whenever he needs a time out from his busy plotting and just can't stand being around people anymore (which is part of his problem), he'll tap into where Voyager is and stargaze for a while in the vastness of space.

(...that was the only other pop culture reference to Voyager I could recall, aside from V-ger already used...)

JP,

I think I speak for all of us when I say, you must get some really good shit from your guy, there. You should share that info with us.
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