NASA reports Voyager 1 back to life!

[Attilatheblond]

As a kid who grew up watching early space efforts, well, YIPEE! the ol' explorer has come back to life. Good job, NASA!

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. yay.

some good news . vger needs the information.

[sarisataka]

2. NASA expert explains

[Arne]

3. Veyger!

[lastlib]

4. Carbon units will provide.

V-ger must have information.

[burrowowl]

5. Yay!!!

[Deuxcents]

6. A good use of taxpayers' money..it just keeps on keeping on 👍

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. It has a message!

[newdayneeded]

8. Shit!

Just like the star trek movie predicted. V-ger is now space alien property!!11!1

[brush]

9. It's been in interstellar space for a while. How far from Earth is now?

[Brother Buzz]

11. About 22 light hours away

15 billion miles

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

12. 22 hours....almost 1 day at the speed of light.

And the nearest star to us (Proxima Centauri) next to the sun is a little over 4 light years from us.

Voyager 1 will have been on its space mission for 47 years come this September.

I read it would take Voyager 1 73,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri at its present rate of speed.

The vastness of space even at such a small scale is truly mind-boggling.

[JoseBalow]

16. The Scale of the Universe

https://scaleofuniverse.com

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

18. Fascinating link- thanks for posting!

Interesting facts about stars I had never previously heard of like the Pistol Star and its intense luminosity.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

17. mind-boggling that we can see something at that distanse.

< o

= you and your eyes
< equals the line of site
o = Moon

< o = you looking at the moon and the cone of vision starting at your pupil and going to the edges of the moon.

If you look at the moon, you at the small end of this angle, and the moon at the open side;
the moon, at about 3 feet from your eye would be about 12" across.

If you put that closest star at the open side, how large would it be at 3 feet from your eyes?

If you have that answer, great! I'd love to know. I think it will be, for most of us, a mind-boggling answer.

[Brother Buzz]

19. What I find amazing is the vastness of space works in both directions

Our entire universe would fit on the head of a pin in another world.

I spent a lot of time pondering the concept of infinity as a child.

[JoseBalow]

20. Can I buy some pot from you?

(0:42)

[Brother Buzz]

21. Points for making the Animal House connection - Go Ducks!

May I have 10,000 (blue) marbles, please?

[brush]

22. It was once taught that the universe was the entirety of everything...

now there's talk of the multi-verse.

Is it one or the other? Seems to me multi-verse is a misnomer and the entirety of everything concept covers whatever avenues or other dimensions that exist.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

26. I'm thinking it is in the middle.

The multi-verse, as it is usually spoke of, is a way that, I think, could explain quantum's non-locality, and or, non-realism.

But, imagine several big bangs or singularities that are far enough away from ours so that we don't notice, or can't notice them.

1 continent, then we find there are many.
1 planet, then we find there are many.
1 sun, and then we find there are many.
1 galaxy, and then we find there are many.
1 universe, and why wouldn't there be more?
Maybe multiple groups/(galaxies) of universes?
Maybe more things beyond the vastness.

[sanatanadharma]

28. Vast is all encompassing space, and yet 'conscious-being' can be there via ...

Vast is all encompassing space, and yet 'conscious-being' can be there via extra-bodily extensions of our means of knowledge.
Consciousness reaches out and brings back new knowledge from afar through extensions of our sensory-beingness.
Perhaps conscious-being is not bodily limited?

[brush]

13. It's a traveler all right. Another question, how many light hours in a light year?

And how far from another star or planet orbiting another star is it that might pull Voyr l in by gravity?

[LeftInTX]

14. About 6.719 trillion miles in a light year or 17,894 years traveling at Voyager's speed.

(I think!)

22 hours/47 yrs = 8,748.48 hour/x yrs = 17,894.6 years

It would take Voyager 17,894.6 years to travel one light year.

I don't know how fast it travels right now. I'm basing how far it went in 47 years. 8,748.48 is the number of hours in a year.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Back in the day I would multiply 24 (hours in a day) X 365 (days in a year). Easy peasy

I might have to take my shoes off to figure it these days

[republianmushroom]

10. Awesome

[vanlassie]

23. Am I the only one who pictured some other life force

out there having stopped by and fixed that Voyager just for shits and goggles?

[Attilatheblond]

24. Actually, you are NOT the only one

Twisted sci fi minds think alike?

[vanlassie]

29. Haha!! I never even watched Star Trek!

[Attilatheblond]

25. Just wait til NASA gets THAT bill!

[John1956PA]

27. . . .