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In the discussion thread: 35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars [View all]

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Tue Sep 4, 2012, 07:03 AM

Bernardo de La Paz (7,142 posts)

9. V'ger . . . nt

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67 replies	Author	Time	Post
35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars [View all]	Omaha Steve	Sep 2012	OP
just amazing when you consider the way they must control it - with all the old bells & whistles	tomm2thumbs	Sep 2012	#1
Actually, sonny, we used to get up off the couch and turn the dial on the tv set...	rfranklin	Sep 2012	#3
heh heh heh -	tomm2thumbs	Sep 2012	#4
I remember those. And my grandmother used to have a crystal candy bowl...	Ian David	Sep 2012	#23
omg - that must've been hilarious the day you figured that out	tomm2thumbs	Sep 2012	#32
My dad had three remote controls...	awoke_in_2003	Sep 2012	#21
Geesh - I must be old. 38.	mwooldri	Sep 2012	#22
I remember when	Missycim	Sep 2012	#24
Heck, our first TV wth a remote had a wire!	Archae	Sep 2012	#38
In 1960, we rented a modest shore house in NJ but it had an electric antenna!	rfranklin	Sep 2012	#44
I will admit we could have got more channels when I was younger.	mwooldri	Sep 2012	#57
Worse than that	oldsarge54	Sep 2012	#65
No full-time staff on the job.	enough	Sep 2012	#17
Must be lots ot trips to the surplus JPL hardware bins to get parts	tomm2thumbs	Sep 2012	#31
Delete.	roamer65	Sep 2012	#54
What's powering the spacecraft...too far for solar power isn't it?	rfranklin	Sep 2012	#2
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) n/t	Wilms	Sep 2012	#7
Nuclear-powered. Each has an eight-track tape recorder. And 68 kilobytes of memory.	Auggie	Sep 2012	#5
We're sending eight-track tapes to the stars?	JustABozoOnThisBus	Sep 2012	#11
You know whats sad?	Missycim	Sep 2012	#25
Also read as "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!" :P	octothorpe	Sep 2012	#47
I am only 42 I will have you know :p	Missycim	Sep 2012	#48
I've worked with a robotic 8-track system before...	Ian David	Sep 2012	#26
I dont remember that far back but I think either I had one of these or a friend did. lol	Missycim	Sep 2012	#49
We also sent a gold plated 70's era laser disc	daleo	Sep 2012	#64
"To boldly go where no man has gone before..."	Surya Gayatri	Sep 2012	#6
And	oldsarge54	Sep 2012	#8
It's not set in an orbit. It won't be coming back unless we somehow retrieved it.	Fearless	Sep 2012	#13
You didn't see the first Star Trek movie?	Missycim	Sep 2012	#27
Lol, I hadn't thought of that. Touche'	Fearless	Sep 2012	#41
Worst costume design I have ever seen	Missycim	Sep 2012	#42
Shudders	Fearless	Sep 2012	#45
Sorry	oldsarge54	Sep 2012	#29
It'll have Firewire ports N/T	tonekat	Sep 2012	#63
We might	christx30	Sep 2012	#67
V'ger . . . nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Sep 2012	#9
I will just give up the information N/T	Throckmorton	Sep 2012	#12
Sorry	Missycim	Sep 2012	#28
Harse Mistress reference	oldsarge54	Sep 2012	#30
Adam Selene will speak at the Democratic Convention, I hope. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Sep 2012	#35
Or Prof	Paulie	Sep 2012	#46
We'll see it again, perhaps. We simply need to master fusion energy and new propulsion drives.	Selatius	Sep 2012	#10
Ahhh, the good old minimal tech days.	geckosfeet	Sep 2012	#14
Actually, that was Maximal Tech ....	Mustellus	Sep 2012	#16
Of course. But engineers always strive to sqeeze the last bit of performance out of everything.	geckosfeet	Sep 2012	#19
11 billion mile message in a bottle	IADEMO2004	Sep 2012	#15
Great stuff. I also recommend a visit to the Voyager mission page at NASA:	Robb	Sep 2012	#18
At Voyager's speed it would take 50,000 years to reach the nearest star	Baclava	Sep 2012	#20
re:35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars	allan01	Sep 2012	#33
re:35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars	allan01	Sep 2012	#34
I thought Pioneer 10 had already left the solar system...	EX500rider	Sep 2012	#36
Nope. Voyager is faster.	AtheistCrusader	Sep 2012	#39
Massive scale of the universe. Nearest star is 270,000 AU away	SWTORFanatic	Sep 2012	#50
I'm heading to a presentation about the Voyagers at JPL tonight.	Kablooie	Sep 2012	#37
I'm jealous!	neverforget	Sep 2012	#52
Here's a video of the whole presentation.	Kablooie	Sep 2012	#58
and no sign of heaven yet LOL	snooper2	Sep 2012	#40
sad we never used nuclear pulse propulsion. we could still get to alpha centauri in my lifetime	SWTORFanatic	Sep 2012	#43
Those 2 spacecraft amaze me.	Odin2005	Sep 2012	#51
Video Tribute to a lonely Space Probe	ThoughtCriminal	Sep 2012	#53
I am assuming that New Horizons will eventually overtake the Voyagers...maybe?	roamer65	Sep 2012	#55
Voyager's doing 17km/sec to New Horizon's 13 or 14. (nt)	Posteritatis	Sep 2012	#56
You can view the daily current Voyager data on the web.	Kablooie	Sep 2012	#59
That's what can happen when "planned obsolesence" is taken out of the equation	Duer 157099	Sep 2012	#60
Voyager is one of the best things we've done	burrowowl	Sep 2012	#61
who said 8-track tapes would not come back?	ChairmanAgnostic	Sep 2012	#62
A beacon of our existence...nt	and-justice-for-all	Sep 2012	#66

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