It's not a radio show they are turning into aa movie, it's a story about the guide adapted for a new medium. All versions of The hitchikers guide to the galaxy" has differed significantly since Douglas Adams knew that you can't turn a radio show into a book/game/tv-show/movie and getting a a good result. This way each of the implementations of the story is an unique experience. I don't know if the film will be great or if it will make mr Adams turn in his grave, since I have read both positive and nedgative reviews.
I will probably go to the movie theater and see it evin if an army of reviewers tell me it suck when it premiers here in Sweden. I really don't trust those guys (No offence).
The instrumentation on the Voyagers is probably inappropriate for the purpose. They probably can tell more from the behavior of the spacecraft and it's transmissions than from the instruments.
My point exactly, many messurements can be preformed indirectly by just observing the satellite, but the voyagers still has functioning spectrometers and other neat instruments.
But since I'm just speculating and the guys at NASA has real data to work with, they are probably better suited to make the decision on whether the probes generate valuable data or if they just are two pieces of scrap metal floating through space.
It's just not reasonable to think that physically being at that distance from the sun is of any significant value as compared to observing the boundary effects in spectra or the like.
I don't quite agree with you on this point, we can learn a lot by observation, but not everything (for example energetic neutral particles). Often we need at least to have a look at the problem from a different angle to make any sense of it.
I reserve for any errors since I have very little experience with sensors and instruments for space applications.
Well since the voyagers are already there, couldn't any data gathered at the interstellar boundry be a great resource when designing the instruments for your "bird"?
In my experience, the more information you have on the phenomena you are to study the better results you can get. And this is crucial escpecially to space missions.
Personally I have little trouble with Jar-Jar, I on the other hand beleve that "the phantom menace" would have been better with out Anakin. I really hated his flying-around-saving-the-day stuff at the end. I'd rather seen a fighter character introduced or something like that.
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It's not a radio show they are turning into aa movie, it's a story about the guide adapted for a new medium. All versions of The hitchikers guide to the galaxy" has differed significantly since Douglas Adams knew that you can't turn a radio show into a book/game/tv-show/movie and getting a a good result. This way each of the implementations of the story is an unique experience. I don't know if the film will be great or if it will make mr Adams turn in his grave, since I have read both positive and nedgative reviews. I will probably go to the movie theater and see it evin if an army of reviewers tell me it suck when it premiers here in Sweden. I really don't trust those guys (No offence).
I reserve for any errors since I have very little experience with sensors and instruments for space applications.
Well since the voyagers are already there, couldn't any data gathered at the interstellar boundry be a great resource when designing the instruments for your "bird"? In my experience, the more information you have on the phenomena you are to study the better results you can get. And this is crucial escpecially to space missions.
Personally I have little trouble with Jar-Jar, I on the other hand beleve that "the phantom menace" would have been better with out Anakin. I really hated his flying-around-saving-the-day stuff at the end. I'd rather seen a fighter character introduced or something like that.