F2 Anonboard :: Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, has reached a new milestone in its quest to leave the Solar System.

Do they both have the Carl Sagan designed menus?

I wonder how far out they have to get before they're sensed by aliens and Earth is destroyed?

Do you think the aliens will pith us, driving spikes into our skulls, before carving us up for steaks? Or will they want to chase us down and rip our limbs off before eating?

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Posted 12/14/2010 8:59 pm

Zathrus2 said:Do they both have the Carl Sagan designed menus?

I wonder how far out they have to get before they're sensed by aliens and Earth is destroyed?

Do you think the aliens will pith us, driving spikes into our skulls, before carving us up for steaks? Or will they want to chase us down and rip our limbs off before eating?

What a horrible thing to say. What's wrong with you?

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:04 pm

I fully expect the cost of this program to be covered by finding us new sources of food.

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:04 pm

I always wonder why, when NASA does something right, it lives for years beyond its expected life (like the Mars Rovers or the shuttles)

When it fucks up - it ROYALLY fucks things up.

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:13 pm

RobertJHarsh said:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11988466

Marvellous. :thumbup:

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:13 pm

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rzdB5a4kLAo/Sr6CO9RNlQI/AAAAAAAAQmE/GEYcNtlBYRo/s320/Vger_probe.jpg
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I'd probe it :banana:

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:13 pm

. said:
Zathrus2 said:Do they both have the Carl Sagan designed menus?

I wonder how far out they have to get before they're sensed by aliens and Earth is destroyed?

Do you think the aliens will pith us, driving spikes into our skulls, before carving us up for steaks? Or will they want to chase us down and rip our limbs off before eating?

What a horrible thing to say. What's wrong with you?

What's horrible about it? We know for a fact that something has been killing off alien civilizations, unless you have a way of explaining the lack of any space junk from 10 billion years of alien civilizations.

Of course, you're probably right. Aliens capable of space travel are probably pretty humane, so they'll pith us first.

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:14 pm

q said:I always wonder why, when NASA does something right, it lives for years beyond its expected life (like the Mars Rovers or the shuttles)

When it fucks up - it ROYALLY fucks things up.

Over engineering.

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:16 pm

Zathrus2 said:Over engineering.

Exactly. That Brit built something in his attic at home and got it to Mars.

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Posted 12/14/2010 9:18 pm

. said:What about Voyager 6?
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Posted 12/14/2010 9:21 pm

they should shoot out a double dong into space

watch that 3 footer rotate threw the galaxy

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Posted 12/14/2010 10:07 pm

Can they still see Spanky from that far out?

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Posted 12/14/2010 10:10 pm

. said:Can they still see Spanky from that far out?

That's no moon, that's a Spanky!

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Posted 12/14/2010 10:15 pm

Voyager has a nuclear reactor onboard. Thats why it is so awesome. Fuck solar panels. Could never be built today.

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Posted 12/14/2010 10:22 pm

How can they possibly track something so far away, but my cellphone won't work in Wallmart?
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Posted 12/14/2010 10:25 pm

bensa said:Voyager has a nuclear reactor onboard. Thats why it is so awesome. Fuck solar panels. Could never be built today.

THE RANK IGNORANCE THAT SATURATES EVERY WORD OF THIS CRETINOUSLY MORONIC POST DEFIES DESCRIPTION AND BOGGLES THE MIND. I WOULD ATTEMPT TO REFUTE THIS IDIOCY, BUT I FEAR BEING SUCKED IRREVOCABLY INTO A SWIRLING MAELSTROM OF VIOLENT STUPIDITY FROM WHICH THERE IS NO ESCAPE. :shudder:

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Posted 12/14/2010 10:25 pm

bensa said:Voyager has a nuclear reactor onboard. Thats why it is so awesome. Fuck solar panels. Could never be built today.

RTGs you mean. Some probes are launched with them in this era, such as the New Horizons probe, launched in 2006.

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Posted 12/14/2010 10:35 pm

Zathrus2 said:unless you have a way of explaining the lack of any space junk from 10 billion years of alien civilizations.

"space is big"

That is the explanation.

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Posted 12/14/2010 11:08 pm

"When Voyager was launched, the space age itself was only 20 years old, so there was no basis to know that spacecraft could last so long," he told BBC News.

Nowadays, the Gen-Yers building this thing would have put the battery in backwards.

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Posted 12/14/2010 11:14 pm

. said:"When Voyager was launched, the space age itself was only 20 years old, so there was no basis to know that spacecraft could last so long," he told BBC News.

Nowadays, the Gen-Yers building this thing would have put the battery in backwards.

change the battery on iPod?

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