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Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary
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).
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.
But probes can't give inspirational speeches to auditoriums packed with High School students.
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Yeah. A frictionless environment will do wonders for your MPG...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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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Spock: It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us... it does not know what.
Ilia: Vger requires more cowbell.
PLEASE tell me you smacked him upside the head good for that.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
I travel the old-fashioned way.
Continental drift!
(stolen from The Onion)