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52. I'm jealous!

Reply to Kablooie (Reply #37)

Tue Sep 4, 2012, 08:16 PM

Sep 2012

I would love to go to that!

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35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars [View all] Omaha Steve Sep 2012 OP

just amazing when you consider the way they must control it - with all the old bells & whistles tomm2thumbs Sep 2012 #1

Actually, sonny, we used to get up off the couch and turn the dial on the tv set... rfranklin Sep 2012 #3

heh heh heh - tomm2thumbs Sep 2012 #4

I remember those. And my grandmother used to have a crystal candy bowl... Ian David Sep 2012 #23

omg - that must've been hilarious the day you figured that out tomm2thumbs Sep 2012 #32

My dad had three remote controls... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2012 #21

Geesh - I *must* be old. 38. mwooldri Sep 2012 #22

I remember when Missycim Sep 2012 #24

Heck, our first TV wth a remote had a wire! Archae Sep 2012 #38

In 1960, we rented a modest shore house in NJ but it had an electric antenna! rfranklin Sep 2012 #44

I will admit we could have got more channels when I was younger. mwooldri Sep 2012 #57

Worse than that oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #65

No full-time staff on the job. enough Sep 2012 #17

Must be lots ot trips to the surplus JPL hardware bins to get parts tomm2thumbs Sep 2012 #31

Delete. roamer65 Sep 2012 #54

What's powering the spacecraft...too far for solar power isn't it? rfranklin Sep 2012 #2

Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) n/t Wilms Sep 2012 #7

Nuclear-powered. Each has an eight-track tape recorder. And 68 kilobytes of memory. Auggie Sep 2012 #5

We're sending eight-track tapes to the stars? JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2012 #11

You know whats sad? Missycim Sep 2012 #25

Also read as "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!" :P octothorpe Sep 2012 #47

I am only 42 I will have you know :p Missycim Sep 2012 #48

I've worked with a robotic 8-track system before... Ian David Sep 2012 #26

I dont remember that far back but I think either I had one of these or a friend did. lol Missycim Sep 2012 #49

We also sent a gold plated 70's era laser disc daleo Sep 2012 #64

"To boldly go where no man has gone before..." Surya Gayatri Sep 2012 #6

And oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #8

It's not set in an orbit. It won't be coming back unless we somehow retrieved it. Fearless Sep 2012 #13

You didn't see the first Star Trek movie? Missycim Sep 2012 #27

Lol, I hadn't thought of that. Touche' Fearless Sep 2012 #41

Worst costume design I have ever seen Missycim Sep 2012 #42

*Shudders* Fearless Sep 2012 #45

Sorry oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #29

It'll have Firewire ports N/T tonekat Sep 2012 #63

We might christx30 Sep 2012 #67

V'ger . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #9

I will just give up the information N/T Throckmorton Sep 2012 #12

Sorry Missycim Sep 2012 #28

Harse Mistress reference oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #30

Adam Selene will speak at the Democratic Convention, I hope. nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #35

Or Prof Paulie Sep 2012 #46

We'll see it again, perhaps. We simply need to master fusion energy and new propulsion drives. Selatius Sep 2012 #10

Ahhh, the good old minimal tech days. geckosfeet Sep 2012 #14

Actually, that was Maximal Tech .... Mustellus Sep 2012 #16

Of course. But engineers always strive to sqeeze the last bit of performance out of everything. geckosfeet Sep 2012 #19

11 billion mile message in a bottle IADEMO2004 Sep 2012 #15

Great stuff. I also recommend a visit to the Voyager mission page at NASA: Robb Sep 2012 #18

At Voyager's speed it would take 50,000 years to reach the nearest star Baclava Sep 2012 #20

re:35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars allan01 Sep 2012 #33

re:35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars allan01 Sep 2012 #34

I thought Pioneer 10 had already left the solar system... EX500rider Sep 2012 #36

Nope. Voyager is faster. AtheistCrusader Sep 2012 #39

Massive scale of the universe. Nearest star is 270,000 AU away SWTORFanatic Sep 2012 #50

I'm heading to a presentation about the Voyagers at JPL tonight. Kablooie Sep 2012 #37

I'm jealous! neverforget Sep 2012 #52

Here's a video of the whole presentation. Kablooie Sep 2012 #58

and no sign of heaven yet LOL snooper2 Sep 2012 #40

sad we never used nuclear pulse propulsion. we could still get to alpha centauri in my lifetime SWTORFanatic Sep 2012 #43

Those 2 spacecraft amaze me. Odin2005 Sep 2012 #51

Video Tribute to a lonely Space Probe ThoughtCriminal Sep 2012 #53

I am assuming that New Horizons will eventually overtake the Voyagers...maybe? roamer65 Sep 2012 #55

Voyager's doing 17km/sec to New Horizon's 13 or 14. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #56

You can view the daily current Voyager data on the web. Kablooie Sep 2012 #59

That's what can happen when "planned obsolesence" is taken out of the equation Duer 157099 Sep 2012 #60

Voyager is one of the best things we've done burrowowl Sep 2012 #61

who said 8-track tapes would not come back? ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2012 #62

A beacon of our existence...nt and-justice-for-all Sep 2012 #66