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Voyager 2 Speaking In Tongues

Posted by kdawson on from the now-voyager dept.

dangle sends in an update from the borderland of Sol. "Voyager 2's flight data system, which formats information before beaming it back to Earth, has experienced a hiccup that has altered the pattern in which it sends updates home, preventing mission managers from decoding the science data beamed to Earth from Voyager 2. The spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth, is apparently still in overall good health, according to the latest engineering data received on May 1. 'Voyager 2's initial mission was a four-year journey to Saturn, but it is still returning data 33 years later,' said Voyager project scientist Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 'It has already given us remarkable views of Uranus and Neptune, planets we had never seen close-up before. We will know soon what it will take for it to continue its epic journey of discovery.' The space probe and its twin Voyager 1 are flying through the bubble-like heliosphere, created by the sun, which surrounds our solar system."

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  1. Decoding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I can make it out. It says "All... your... base..."

  2. V'ger expects an answer. by axl917 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't piss it off, NASA.

  3. What! by Tobor+the+Eighth+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It has already given us remarkable views of Uranus..."

    Well, I never!

    1. Re:What! by Lloyd_Bryant · · Score: 5, Funny

      "It has already given us remarkable views of Uranus..."

      Well, I never!

      You most certainly *did*. And NASA has the pics to prove it.

      --
      Don't tell me to get a life. I had one once. It sucked.
    2. Re:What! by tom17 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Rule 34? "Any officer caught sniffing the saddle of the exercise bicycle in the women's gym will be discharged without trial?". I really don't see the relevance here.

      Tom...

  4. Re:Orly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to work for a chemistry department whose *nix boxes were named after elements. The back up sun server (it was previously was the primary server, but it was retired in favor of a more powerful sun box and just kept as a backup) was Uranus. Every time you said Uranus, one of the *nix admins would say "Whose anus?"

    Now, what was really funny was this person had a memory issue. So EVERY TIME he thought it was the first time he had told you the "joke". It got to the point where before he could even say Uranus, every professor would say yes whose anus, and he would just sit there shocked and say "How did you know I was going to say that?"

  5. Re:Garbled how? by b4dc0d3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should put it on BitTorrent labeled "Assasin's Creed 3 with Ubisoft's unbreakable DRM -- REAL !!!1! 0-day warez CDC propz to Hippie!!!". It will be fixed in a week.