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maxfaraday wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Sort of. It will keep going for a few years before 2025 with enough power left to send signals, but not to run its main scientific instruments.
They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.
dyrtydog wrote:This story has already been written. Vgr will send out signals while broken on an alien planet, and Kirk and crew will investigate this "god" only to discover it was Voyager 1
Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Metsfanmax wrote:maxfaraday wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Sort of. It will keep going for a few years before 2025 with enough power left to send signals, but not to run its main scientific instruments.
They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.
Solar panel technology barely existed in 1977.
saxitoxin wrote:
!!!!!!!!!!!TRAP THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAXI TRAPPED METSFANMAX!
OH YEAH, SAXI'S THE GREATEST! SAXI'S THE GREATEST!
Phatscotty wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Solar panel technology barely existed in 1977.
But it will solve all our problems in 2013
Army of GOD wrote:uh oh, saxi posted bellsprout. This is definitely a trapthread for me.
Funkyterrance wrote:Army of GOD wrote:uh oh, saxi posted bellsprout. This is definitely a trapthread for me.
Ditto.
Army of GOD wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Army of GOD wrote:uh oh, saxi posted bellsprout. This is definitely a trapthread for me.
Ditto.
Army of GOD wrote:shut up
whitestazn88 wrote:just to clarify something, solar panels would stop working on the voyager like.... around uranus? i don't know exactly where, but they're not very efficient, and the strength of the sun is not strong enough that far from it, and once it passes the kuiper belt (if it even had that capability), it would still be 4.some light years away from the nearest star, so I doubt it could draw power from any light source.
shit, our solar system is so big that voyager 1, given infinite fuel, probably won't even reach the oort cloud by the time humanity has destroyed itself.
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