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Voyager has been a success by any measure. It will be the furthest our species has ever reached to the stars and will be heralded as a pioneer of our best ambitions in the pursuit of knowledge.
Voyager wasn't a good probe, it was the best.
and will be heralded as a pioneer
That will be very confusing for Pioneer 10 :P
Have you seen this? No relation to my username but I bought it as soon as I found out about it.
Thank you, I just drunkenly impulse bought this, gonna be so psyched when it shows up and I forgot about it ^^;;
They really did a great job putting it together. The book alone is so good.
I really...REALLY...want this.
I bought one too, one of the first, I think. It's fantastic. One of the jewels of my collection. The only quibble I have is the lapel pin, there's nowhere really to put it.
It's really not a bad price either. But, I did just pay $500 for a signed Tool vinyl, so I'm probably just crazy.
Which record? Tool is worth it.
Fear Inoculum. The merch booth was pretty pricy, but I always try to get a signed record when I go to a concert.
Oooh that's very cool. Quite tempted...
See ya in the 24th century, V-ger!
23rd century. Vβger appears in Klingon territory in the 2270s.
Sadly Vβger was the fictional Voyager 6 probe.
Maybe it got picked up.
In about a thousand years, we're gonna get a fine for littering.
From the Vogons, for littering on their hyperspace expressway
If it's truly dead, it's a sad day for humanity. The farthest reaches into space we've ever been, and possibly ever will be. It'll just be a lonely probe wondering the cosmos, unable to phone home.
It's a miracle it lasted as long as it did.
It's NASA engineering.
Still very impressive regardless of who did it. Its original mission plan was for a little over 3 years but it worked for 46 years!
14-15x operational plan isn't unheard of. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter outperformed by that much as well.
Done right, engineering does very much resemble magic.
If that's the farthest we ever go, then we're a sad pathetic species that peaked in 1977.
I mean maybe, there are limitations to physics. We aren't talking science fiction here. The universe is truly much more vast than we think it is, and galaxies are all flying away from eachother. We'd be lucky if we ever even send a message to the next closest star system to ours.
Ok but that's just like your opinion, man.
Voyager 1 is not dead. It is only sleeping as it enters the final stage of its 1.5 billion year mission.
Imagine if it is back online, and it keeps sending us prime numbers.
Contact is my favorite movie of all time and I watched it again a couple days ago. β€οΈ
You just reminded me that I should read the book by Carl Sagan. Will probably find more interesting details in the book.
What if "they" gonna bring it home like a surprise for being gone.
I'm not supposed to tell you guys this, yet, but it hit the exclusion zone barrier.
Time to let go, NASA. We had a good run. She needs to move on to another Solar System.
