Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

[patches70]

It's not worth bothering with Voyager. A few quick calculations on the blue book value. It's 36 years old, in no where near mint condition and with a whopping 18,650,000,000,000 km of mileage on it, the blue book value on Voyager comes to (negative) -$18,000,000,000.

I don't think Voyager is worth salvaging....

[Dukasaur]

Fascinating.

http://www.blastr.com/2011/01/watch_mr_spock_say_fascin.php

[jonesthecurl]

Every time we get an update from Voyager 1, it's history in the making:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/voyager-unexpected-region/

how odd. I thought the scientists had all banded together in a god-hating conspiracy to keep us ignorant. Don't tell me they're admitting they don't know something.

[AndyDufresne]

Every time we get an update from Voyager 1, it's history in the making:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/voyager-unexpected-region/

how odd. I thought the scientists had all banded together in a god-hating conspiracy to keep us ignorant. Don't tell me they're admitting they don't know something.

This is just a blip, Jonsey. Don't worry, the Secret Society of Scientists with Unknowable and Clandestine Knowledge (SSSUCK) will step in to correct things soon.


--Andy

[Funkyterrance]

Ok, if this thread gets a bump then I'm bumping Bedknobs and Broomsticks again.

[Woodruff]

Ok, if this thread gets a bump then I'm bumping Bedknobs and Broomsticks again.

You don't think the bump was relevant?

[Funkyterrance]

Yeah I suppose it is in a once-removed sort of way...
I saw an ad for the Bedknobs and Broomsticks 40th anniversary special edition Blu-Ray too today though.

[tzor]

It's not worth bothering with Voyager. A few quick calculations on the blue book value.

It's an almost unique item. You would be surprised what it would fetch at the antiques road show.

[WILLIAMS5232]

It's not worth bothering with Voyager. A few quick calculations on the blue book value.

It's an almost unique item. You would be surprised what it would fetch at the antiques road show.

the gold record alone could be worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars

[john9blue]

the awesome thing about satellites is that they keep going when they run out of gas

also i can't believe i missed out on saxi's bellsprout/BITBBH gifs

you know the way to my heart, uncle sack see

[tzor]

the awesome thing about satellites is that they keep going when they run out of gas

Only when they are actually in space. A significant number of them do experience small amounts of atmospheric drag.

Even above the Kármán line, significant atmospheric effects such as auroras still occur. Meteors begin to glow in this region though the larger ones may not burn up until they penetrate more deeply. The various layers of Earth's ionosphere, important to HF radio propagation, begin below 100 km and extend beyond 500 km. By comparison, the International Space Station and Space Shuttle typically orbit at 350–400 km, within the F-layer of the ionosphere where they encounter enough atmospheric drag to require reboosts every few months. Depending on solar activity, satellites can experience noticeable atmospheric drag at altitudes as high as 700–800 km.