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Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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That's not how it works.. Saving money is not the work of the government. It's better for everyone at NASA to get more money to build a new one.saxitoxin wrote:I read the other day that Voyager I will run out of gas in 2025. That's just 23 years away.
Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth? It probably cost a lot of money to build. If we get it back, we can gas it up and send it the other direction to see what's over there. Otherwise it will have been a total waste.
Mets?
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewt ... 0#p5349880
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewt ... 0#p5349880
Wouldn't the thing they built to go to Jupiter cost nearly as much to build as the old one? Even if it didn't, it would be fueling up something that would be pretty obsolete by that point. In fact, the first one is probably already obsolete. Send the old one back and recycle it to make a brand new, state of the art waste of money.saxitoxin wrote:What if NASA just sent it back halfway, like to Jupiter - sent something to meet it there and gas it up, then turned it around and let it go back again? They'd lose a little time having to backtrack, so that's a possible drawback.
Kitty!saxitoxin wrote:I heard they've stowed a rotissirie chicken aboard Voyager. Would like to get it back.
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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
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.Funkyterrance wrote:Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.Metsfanmax wrote: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.Funkyterrance wrote:Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
Solar panel technology barely existed in 1977.maxfaraday wrote:They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.Metsfanmax wrote: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.Funkyterrance wrote:Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
Even solar panels have a lifespan.maxfaraday wrote:They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.Metsfanmax wrote: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.Funkyterrance wrote:Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
Finally, someone points out the obvious!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
!!!!!!!!!!!TRAP THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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But it will solve all our problems in 2013Metsfanmax wrote:Solar panel technology barely existed in 1977.maxfaraday wrote:They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.Metsfanmax wrote: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.Funkyterrance wrote:Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?Metsfanmax wrote: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."saxitoxin wrote: Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
