So how many of us are looking up the best way to watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture on streaming video?

Oh yeah, we sent the signal to correct Voyagers clock to daylight savings time, that's important yanno wut I mean?

Man, I barely get reception on my cell phone while home!

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
According to the article it took 19 days for the signal to reach it..??

Conversation overheard in the WH:

"To reach what?"

"You know, the thing."

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
19 hours for the signal to reach voyager 13 billion miles away...

Still, it took two years for this article to reach Sigforum...

Top.

Men.

That's amazing!

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Originally posted by Hildur:
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

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On November 28, 2017, NASA sent the command to Voyager to test-fire the TCM thrusters. That radio signal travelled through space for 19.5 hours to reach Voyager (that's now far away it is), while NASA engineers waited.

Then, after another 19.5 hours of silence, NASA's Goldstone radio antenna in the Mojave Desert received word from Voyager 1 that the thrusters had fired!

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.

Could be our position, in 2017 they might have sent the signal when we were on the other side of the Sun, this time we were closer because of where we were in our orbit.

These course corrections are to keep the transmitter pointed at us, so they can receive data. Voyager ain't coming back, it's just gonna keep going, until it bonks into something.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:

Could be our position, in 2017 they might have sent the signal when we were on the other side of the Sun, this time we were closer because of where we were in our orbit.

The diameter of Earth's orbit is around 300M miles. Even if the signal was sent at different points in orbit the Voyager should still be moving farther and farther away.


I'm beginning to think the article is just recycling old information from prior years.


I'm still baffled at how a microwave signal is being transmitted at the speed of light and can be received by the Voyager. It doesn't have a 70 foot microwave dish receiver with the power necessary to pick up signals the way the Goldstone antenna can. And how does it send a return signal with its transmitter? For 1970s tech it's most impressive if true.

I'm with Hildur. How can they track it or even know exactly where it is?

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
I'm with Hildur. How can they track it or even know exactly where it is?

Because science.