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RoadKingLarry

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Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« on: December 02, 2017, 04:31:45 AM »
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2017, 06:17:16 AM »
What are the thrusters, compressed air or something?
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM »
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be?  It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2017, 07:17:15 AM »
Quote from: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be?  It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

Heat/cold cycling, impacts from space dust up to small objects, radiation.

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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2017, 09:03:52 AM »
Quote from: freakazoid on December 02, 2017, 06:17:16 AM
What are the thrusters, compressed air or something?

If I remember correctly... hydrazine.
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2017, 11:36:42 AM »
Quote from: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be?  It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

You'd be surprised.  Radiation can cause metals to crystallize, migrate, and fuse.
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2017, 05:34:24 PM »
Quote from: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be?  It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

The guys from α-Lyrae using it for target practice?
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2017, 05:52:15 PM »
I still geek out a little on space program stuff. This thing has been zipping through space for better than 40 years and is still functional. Interesting that it takes almost 2 days to send a command and receive a response.
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2017, 08:36:58 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on December 02, 2017, 05:52:15 PM
I still geek out a little on space program stuff. This thing has been zipping through space for better than 40 years and is still functional. Interesting that it takes almost 2 days to send a command and receive a response.

Well, there aren't any 7th Fleet destroyers out there to run into...
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2017, 11:57:36 AM »
Well, there Oorta be.
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Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2017, 03:26:35 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on December 05, 2017, 11:57:36 AM
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