Voyager leaving Sol's influence

[seeker_two]

So....how long until Voyager makes to the Delta Quadrant and meets up with Voyager?.....


...and I'd accept the nuStar Trek movie long before I'd ever accept the Enterprise finale....  

[AJ Dual]

So....how long until Voyager makes to the Delta Quadrant and meets up with Voyager?.....


...and I'd accept the nuStar Trek movie long before I'd ever accept the Enterprise finale....  

We'll have destroyed ourselves, the rats evolved to sentient/sapient tool users, they'll have destroyed themselves, and the cockroaches will just be starting to argue over rat and human artifacts found elsewhere in the Solar System right about then...

[KD5NRH]

I guess it is only a matter of time before the Psychos find it. 

Or the Clotharians.

[KD5NRH]

Pretty cool that we're heading out of the solar system. Thought it was kinda funny though yesterday to see a headline, "Voyager leaving space". I didn't know it had trans-dimensional capability. :)

Let me get this straight:
Voyager is 33 years old, designed on paper by a bunch of guys with slide rules, has 10 billion miles on the odometer, has never been in the shop for maintenance, and it's still working properly and phoning home regularly.

Meanwhile, I still have to re-sync the keyfobs for my 1999 Blazer every few months.

Shouldn't technology be moving forward?

[Jim147]

Shouldn't technology be moving forward?

Sometimes it moves in strange directions.

Have you checked the solder on the battery hold down terminals of those fobs?

jim

[RocketMan]

Along those same lines, Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle.  A program commemorating the 30 years of the Space Shuttle. 45:25 long, both film and high definition video (well, yeah, it's Youtube.)

[Nitrogen]

Ugh... all the stupid in the comments.

Did he even read the article? 

  (facepalm)

They are RTG's and the voyagers were NOT the last.  Cassini–Huygens has one.
RTG's generate power via temperature differences (Sebeck effect)

[Pharmacology]

Uh, we all know that the latest star trek movie isn't Canon  in the sense that it's a different dimension.


DUUUUHHHHH

[KD5NRH]

Sometimes it moves in strange directions.

Have you checked the solder on the battery hold down terminals of those fobs?

Checked over their guts pretty closely.  Unfortunately, the receiver/interpreter circuitry seems to be buried in some other important stuff.

[Scout26]

.....where it will meet the denizens of a machine planet, be incorporated into one of their probes, and return to earth as "V'Ger" in the year 2279 only to be dealt with by the crafty and wily Captain James T. Kirk. 

Nope, it'll become Nomad

[230RN]

If it calls back, tell it I'm not here and take a message.

[Racehorse]

Let me get this straight:
Voyager is 33 years old, designed on paper by a bunch of guys with slide rules, has 10 billion miles on the odometer, has never been in the shop for maintenance, and it's still working properly and phoning home regularly.

Meanwhile, I still have to re-sync the keyfobs for my 1999 Blazer every few months.

Shouldn't technology be moving forward?

How much did Voyager cost?

$865 million

How much did your 1999 Blazer cost?

MSRP: about $32,000

I think you could get similar results if you spent another $864 million on your car.

[Perd Hapley]

So....how long until Voyager makes to the Delta Quadrant and meets up with Voyager?.....

I predict it's going to be speeding this way pretty soon, with a note saying,

"Keep your toys off my lawn!
--God."

[AJ Dual]

Let me get this straight:
Voyager is 33 years old, designed on paper by a bunch of guys with slide rules, has 10 billion miles on the odometer, has never been in the shop for maintenance, and it's still working properly and phoning home regularly.

Meanwhile, I still have to re-sync the keyfobs for my 1999 Blazer every few months.

Shouldn't technology be moving forward?

It is.

New Horizons on it's way to Pluto and hopefully some other KBO's Kupier Belt Objects, the mishmash of comets and other icy dwarf-planets/planetoids that caused Pluto's de-certification. New Horizons was a slap-chop quicky project in space probe terms to try and beat the atmospheric freeze-out that happens in the course of Pluto's "year" as it's elongated orbit pulls it further from the Sun.

I believe it's using a spare Cassini RTG and other OTS components/left-overs wherever possible, and I'm sure the imagery and data gathered is going to be several orders of magnitude better than Voyagers.

[tyme]

I predict it's going to be speeding this way pretty soon, with a note saying,

"Keep your toys off my lawn!
--God."

Unless you're trying to mock human-centric religion, I don't see how that's funny.

[vaskidmark]

And yet I got quite the chuckle from it.

stay safe.

[Perd Hapley]

Unless you're trying to mock human-centric religion, I don't see how that's funny.

I'm not sure I follow you. Do I want to?

[Angel Eyes]

And yet I got quite the chuckle from it.

Same here.

That, or have it come back stamped "Return to Sender."   

[vaskidmark]

Same here.

That, or have it come back stamped "Return to Sender."   

I wouldn't be too upset over a simple "Return to Sender", but marked "Refused" might make me seriously consider things.

stay safe.

[seeker_two]

And yet I got quite the chuckle from it.

Me too..... 


...or maybe it'll be returned by an alien probe from an advanced civilization with a friendship offering of technological advances like reliable keyfobs for a 1999 Blazer.... 

[RoadKingLarry]

Dreamer^^^

[bedlamite]

New Horizons on it's way to Pluto and hopefully some other KBO's Kupier Belt Objects,

Where are we going?

Planet 10!

When?

Real soon!

[roo_ster]

Where are we going?

Planet 10!

When?

Real soon!

Which plan?

Plan 9 from Outer Space!