Page 1 2
Go | New | Find | Notify | Tools | Reply | |
| Stupid Allergy  |
Almost thought this article was an April fools joke of some kind, but I found it on a HAM Radio site I subscribed to. No way those guys could have a sense of humor…  Anyway, pretty insane imo. They “woke up” Voyager 1’s thrusters from 13 billion miles away that hadn’t been fired since like 1980 in order to correct its course.  https://www.physics-astronomy....from-13-billion.html "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen... | ||
|
| Member |
13 billion miles... I have a hard time believing technology today can communicate that far but stuff back from the 1970s.... I find it harder to believe. | |||
|
| Stupid Allergy |
According to the article it took 19 days for the signal to reach it..?? "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen... | |||
|
| Stupid Allergy |
Another unrelated site… https://www.engadget.com/2017-...ackup-thrusters.html "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen... | |||
|
A Grateful American |
Oh, great. Wake up V'ger...  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
|
| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
NASA has not updated the Voyager website but that may still be a while off knowing how bad they are at this sort of thing (just compare a SpaceX launch to a NASA launch). I do know they adjusted it in 2017 I think this was the last time they have adjusted it's course. I really think it will eventually come back to report in and then we are all doomed . . .  This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
|
Member |
"...on November 28, NASA had to interact with the spacecraft and perform a minor course correction...." A course correction to go...where? Circle back to earth? _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
|
| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Actually it was 19 hours, not days according to the article. Still amazing none the less. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
|
Wait, what? |
The distance this craft has traveled is mind boggling. Communication time between us and it is about 19 hours. It is almost 1 billion miles from the sun to Saturn. Voyager 1 is @13 times that far. And has barely left the zone of the suns influence. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
|
God will always provide |
Yea but then the bald chick comes into play! | |||
|
| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Yep, a signal traveling 186,000 miles/sec would take just over 19 hours to travel 13,000,000,000 miles. I'm not too surprised that it is possible to signal Voyager from the Earth, because we have very large antennae and powerful transmitters here. I am surprised that we could receive a signal back (if we did)--those big antennae have a lot of gain, but the Voyager transmitter is weak and there is a lot of radio noise in the environment. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
|
| Member |
Can someone explain to me what technology allows us to send a signal 13 billion miles away and receive communication back without any degradation? Honestly I think this is BS. Here's another article dated 2 years earlier that basically says the same thing: https://www.kqed.org/science/1...-heres-what-happened
So back in 2017 Voyager was 13 billion miles away and it took 19.5 hours. Fast forward 3 years and it's still 13 billion miles away and takes 19 hours to communicate? This doesn't pass the smell test. | |||
|
| Member |
I’m with 229DAK: a course correction to where? It’s 13 billion miles from Earth and in interstellar space. What’s NASA trying to do, slingshot it around a particular star 50 or 100 thousand years from now? Better have a precise understanding of galactic gravitational interactions if you’re going to pull that one off! | |||
|
paradox in a box |
It’s almost guaranteed to come back with containers of black goo. These go to eleven. | |||
|
Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
19 hours for the signal to reach voyager 13 billion miles away... Still, it took two years for this article to reach Sigforum...  ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
|
| paradox in a box |
We don’t have government resources. These go to eleven. | |||
|
| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
It’s got all sorts of diagrams and schematics and pictures telling anyone out there about us and how to find us, so if anyone or anything out there has any ill intent and the technology, they are coming… Someday. | |||
|
| Stupid Allergy |
Sorry I misread the 19 days thing… "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen... | |||
|
| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth |
Klaatu Barada Nikto.... | |||
|
| Never miss an opportunity to be Batman!  |
And lets not forget the Twilight Zone classic, "To Serve Man". | |||
|
| Powered by Social Strata | Page 1 2 |
 | Please Wait. Your request is being processed... |
|
© SIGforum 2024