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Voyager: 12,000 days
« on: July 02, 2010, 05:02:25 PM »
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/



Voyager 2 has been running for 12,000 days today.

Voyager 1 will hit it later this month.

Keep going, fellas!
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2010, 05:17:11 PM »
If they'd known how damn long they'd last, they should have put larger RTG's on them and some instrumentation better suited to measuring interstellar space.

Or seen about a Pluto intercept trajectory for one of them.

What V1 and V2 did in terms of terrestrial analogies is like driving a Yugo for 2,000,000 miles without an oil change, and entering some off-road competitions with it on a whim.
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2010, 06:33:52 PM »
I have a feeling we'll be hearing from V___ger for a long, long time. ;)
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2010, 09:04:15 PM »
Dang. That's a long-ass time running for any kind of machine.
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2010, 09:06:26 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on July 02, 2010, 06:33:52 PM
I have a feeling we'll be hearing from V___ger for a long, long time. ;)

Quit infesting the forum you carbon-based unit.

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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2010, 10:53:15 PM »
Nomad did it better than V'Ger.  I thought I was going to fall asleep during the interminable exploration of the V'Ger cloud by the Enterprise. 
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2010, 11:59:08 PM »
Quote from: Cromlech on July 02, 2010, 09:04:15 PM
Dang. That's a long-ass time running for any kind of machine.

Yea, planned obsolescence clearly wasn't used in that design...

Or in the Mars Rovers for that matter.

Gotta give the engineers some serious props.
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2010, 12:02:36 AM »
Quote from: Phyphor on July 02, 2010, 11:59:08 PM
Yea, planned obsolescence clearly wasn't used in that design...
Or in the Mars Rovers for that matter.
Gotta give the engineers some serious props.

Engineers don't plan obsolescence, Marketing dweebs do.

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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2010, 02:29:07 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on July 02, 2010, 09:06:26 PM
Quit infesting the forum you carbon-based unit.

Brad

What makes you think I'm carbon based? ;)
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2010, 03:30:12 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on July 04, 2010, 02:29:07 PM
What makes you think I'm carbon based? ;)

So....does that mean you're carbon-neutral?....'cause AlGore's gonna love you....  =D
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Re: Voyager: 12,000 days
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2010, 03:41:07 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on July 04, 2010, 03:30:12 PM
So....does that mean you're carbon-neutral?....'cause AlGore's gonna love you....  =D

OK, OK! I admit it! I'm carbon, I'm carbon!
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Personally, I do not understand how a bunch of people demanding a bigger govt can call themselves anarchist.
I meet lots of folks like this, claim to be anarchist but really they're just liberals with pierced genitals. - gunsmith

I already have canned butter, buying more. Canned blueberries, some pancake making dry goods and the end of the world is gonna be delicious.  -French G
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