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Voyager 1 Passes 100 AU from the Sun
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, Voyager 1 passed 100 astronomical units from the sun as it continues operating after nearly 30 years in space. That is about 15 billion kilometers or 9.3 billion miles as it travels about 1 million miles per day. Scientists still hope it will find the edge of the solar system and get into interstellar space."
I wonder how long until it comes back carrying half the solar system with it looking for it's maker?
My humor is probably your flamebait
Yeah.
While your post was nice, I wouldn't describe it as a "great blog post". Or did you miss a link? :-)
I think that exceeds the maximum RTT for TCP.
30 years without changing the batteries *AND* 30 years without exploding. Can I get one of those?
Layne
Of course, ping is ICMP not TCP and thus is not subject to this problem. Oops! But the Voyager web configuration panel won't work!
I wish that "vger6" guy would stop logging onto the same CS server I am on.
Really throws the game when he gets all choppy and stuff....
Heh... You must work for NASA :)
A fascinating, if somewhat slow-loading, page
Fascinating that he was able to use Voyager 1 to host his site...
Yeah, but the RIAA'd be all up on your arse.
It wants you to key in the last 8 bits of your ip address manually.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!
It is because its heading toward a black hole.....but why has no-one seen it? I'll ask Holly. Holly, why has no one noticed that Voyager is heading into a black hole?
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the color of space, your basic space color - is it's black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Space is big. Really big.
Slagborr
I wonder if it'll ever find life, and what the scenario in that case would look like.
Maybe floating down from the skies with a note inside...
"Looks like you lost something, but jeez, it was hard to track you down with more planets than its schematic shows!"
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Only one more AU until it passes 100 AU from Earth.
The reason it hasn't run into anything is because space is basically empty. There's very little out there to hit and what is there is a long way from anything else. So, not it's not *VERY* lucky to have not hit anything. If it had hit something, it would have been very *UN*lucky.
All the data sent back will be lost by NASA anyways.
Tyranny isn't the worst enemy of a democracy. Cynicism is.
The irony being that it was meant to land on Mars, but they got the units wrong then too. *duck*
The edge of reason. Voyager will stare into the void, go psycho and start blogging about his cats.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Ha ha only serious. The reason you can't buy the golden record as a multimedia CD-ROM (or anything else) is because the music and images on it are under copyright, and the selections were only released to NASA for use by alien audiences only. :p
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
You insensitive clod! He did to work for NASA, but after the Mars incident he's been unemployed.
Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, and let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
breaking the previous record of 99.99999AU, also set by Voyager I... the day before.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Data from Voyager: ummm, gee, it sure is cold out here. Does anyone have a blanket? I feel so lonely. Daisy, Daisy.....
god I hope you're joking
V'ger wishes to gib the creator.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Are you saying it's big even compared to the walk to the chemist?
ah heck. It is all relative.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
If I've ever learned anything from about radiation exposure from low-budget Japanese films, I think that the missus would be rather pleased...
To clarify, Voyager 1 is 100 AU away *from the sun*, not [necessarily] from us. With a little fudging for the Earth's location relative to the Sun, we could say that it is only 99 AU away from us.
So any of you rapture-seekers still have another chance once it's 101 AU from the sun. (It's like the millenium thing all over again!)
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
that it tried to get onto my Quake server?
We were trying to fire a game up, and on comes Voyager 1, with its 26 hour ping time. We all laughed and then booted it off.
Yet, somehow, it makes me feel smaller than ever.
Speaking of Nomad: http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_nomad.jp g
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
That's just peanuts compared to space.
I wonder how long until it reaches the next Starbucks?