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Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the grandpa's-space-probe-still-tellin-stories dept.

Raver32 writes to mention that 30 years after the original launch of Voyager 2, both Voyager spacecraft are still going strong. Flying away from us some billions of miles from our solar system's edge they continue to be a wealth of information more than 25 years after their original mission concluded. Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers).

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  1. hmmmm... by pwizard2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wait until the Klingons find them.

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    1. Re:hmmmm... by Spudtrooper · · Score: 5, Funny

      The first post is a Star Trek reference, but NOT one about V'Ger? Your nerd license is hereby revoked, pwizard2, and may the gods have mercy on your soul.

  2. Only 268 years left ... by dougmc · · Score: 1, Funny

    Only 268 or so years left until Voyager comes back. Well, I'm not sure which one it is, but one of them is coming back. But we've got some time to deal with the carbon lifeform infestation ...

  3. But... by niceone · · Score: 2, Funny

    will Janeway give the crew the day off?

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  4. Re:From a time when NASA actually "worked" by SomeJoel · · Score: 3, Funny

    But probes can't give inspirational speeches to auditoriums packed with High School students.

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  5. Re:Ping? by eln · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what you're saying is if I see Voyager logging in to a Counterstrike server, I shouldn't be too worried?

  6. Re:Fuel economy by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah. A frictionless environment will do wonders for your MPG...

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  7. Floating point error? by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, the good old misplaced decimal point. We've lost some of our best space probes that way....

    :-P

    HAL.

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  8. Billions and Billions by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    15.6 billion kilometers is so hard to conceptualize. If only we had some measure of distance to give proper context; some sort of scale relative to the distance from the earth to another significant celestial body. A unit of measure large enough for "astronomical" purposes. Then we could say the probe is, oh, I don't know.. let's just pick a number and say the probe is 104 of these units away, instead of billions of kilometers. If only...

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  9. Re:You are the Kirk Unit? You will assist me. by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spock: It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us... it does not know what.

    Ilia: Vger requires more cowbell.

  10. Re:Still going but fading from public awareness... by Ironsides · · Score: 3, Funny

    PLEASE tell me you smacked him upside the head good for that.

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  11. Re:Fuel economy by VultureMN · · Score: 3, Funny

    I travel the old-fashioned way.

    Continental drift!

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