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Should NASA turn Voyager I around and bring it back to Earth?

 
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Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby saxitoxin on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:10 pm

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, they can gas it up and send it the other direction to see if whatever they're looking for is over there. Otherwise it will have been a total waste.

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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby nietzsche on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:13 pm

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.

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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.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Funkyterrance on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:15 pm

I vote send it back on the notion that littering space, like anywhere else, is low class.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby saxitoxin on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:16 pm

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.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby saxitoxin on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:17 pm

WHAAA?!?! SAXI, WTF?
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby saxitoxin on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:19 pm

I heard they've stowed a rotissirie chicken aboard Voyager. Would like to get it back.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby x-raider on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:27 pm

...Looks for option labeled "they should join star-fleet"...

It's a hilarious premise that leads to pictures of rotisserie chickens that look like tigers...

Did they even equip it with a turn-around button?
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Funkyterrance on Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:27 pm

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.


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.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby notyou2 on Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:20 pm

Turn it around and fly it into the sun.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Funkyterrance on Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:26 pm

saxitoxin wrote:I heard they've stowed a rotissirie chicken aboard Voyager. Would like to get it back.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Metsfanmax on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:17 pm

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."
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Funkyterrance on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:19 pm

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"?
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Metsfanmax on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:25 pm

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.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby maxfaraday on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:42 pm

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.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Metsfanmax on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:44 pm

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.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby dyrtydog on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:49 pm

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
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Funkyterrance on Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:00 pm

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.


Even solar panels have a lifespan.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby dyrtydog on Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:05 pm

not if they were made of Twinkies
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Dukasaur on Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:06 pm

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

Finally, someone points out the obvious!
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Timminz on Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:30 pm

Who are we trying to trap here?
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby notyou2 on Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:35 pm

Trekkies and it's working.
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Postby 2dimes on Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:10 pm

Timminz wrote:Who are we trying to trap here?

Andy.
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby saxitoxin on Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:15 am

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."


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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby nietzsche on Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:23 am

hahaha
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Re: Should NASA turn Voyager I back around?

Postby Phatscotty on Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:26 am

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.


But it will solve all our problems in 2013
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