https://techstartups.com/2018/03/22/nasa-receives-response-from-voyager-1-spacecraft-13-billion-miles-away-after-37-years-of-inactivity/
Flabbergasted. NASA did some great work there.
All I can think of is the german captain in "The Enemy Below".
"Ve build zem guid in Chermany, eh Heinie?"
:o
:bd:
Holy crap, it's halfway to Alpha Centauri? That can't be right.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Voyagers_Position.jpg)
Not even close, Alpha is 41.32 trillion km away, V-ger is only 18.8 billion km.
Quote from: Barthheart on March 28, 2018, 07:47:23 AM
Not even close, Alpha is 41.32 trillion km away, V-ger is only 18.8 billion km.
I was gonna say...stupid Internet lies!
The scale in that picture is a log scale in AUs (astronomical units - 1 AU = distance from Earth to Sun)
Saturn is 10 AUs from the Sun.
V-ger is currently 100 AUs out.
Alpha is between 10,000 and 1,000,000 AUs out.
I can't find it on the PBS site right now but Nova did a very good show on Voyager not too long ago. It is really an amazing story. Got some serious space geek on with that one.
One of the significant plot-points from the epic fanfic HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY, following the premise that everyone, especially Voldemort, acts as competently as possible, is that Voldy either put a horcrux on Voyager or made it into a horcrux. Whenever he needs a time out from his busy plotting and just can't stand being around people anymore (which is part of his problem), he'll tap into where Voyager is and stargaze for a while in the vastness of space.
(...that was the only other pop culture reference to Voyager I could recall, aside from V-ger already used...)
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 28, 2018, 11:56:17 AM
One of the significant plot-points from the epic fanfic HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY, following the premise that everyone, especially Voldemort, acts as competently as possible, is that Voldy either put a horcrux on Voyager or made it into a horcrux. Whenever he needs a time out from his busy plotting and just can't stand being around people anymore (which is part of his problem), he'll tap into where Voyager is and stargaze for a while in the vastness of space.
(...that was the only other pop culture reference to Voyager I could recall, aside from V-ger already used...)
JP,
I think I speak for all of us when I say, you must get some really good shit from your guy, there. You should share that info with us.