Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge

dalmozian writes "NASA's Latest News about the Voyager 1 is being run on Sci-Tech. The Voyager has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area, say scientists at the University of Maryland. From the article: 'Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft Voyager 2 are now part of a NASA Interstellar Mission to explore the outermost edge of the sun's domain and beyond. Both Voyagers are capable of returning scientific data from a full range of instruments, with adequate electrical power and attitude control propellant to keep operating until 2020.'" The proof of crossing the termination shock was covered earlier this year but now we can see the actual data.

Wow.

[doxology]

Those roaming charges must be astronomical!

And the message was..

[Anonymous Coward]

Beam me up Scotty! :)

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[AKAImBatman]

My attempt at humor. (Stand back.)

You might be an astrophysicist if:

10. You only refer to the ninth planet as "Pluto-Charon"
9. You constantly correct everyone that Pluto-Charon is sometimes the eighth planet.
8. You've throttled someone for joking about "The Borg" when you mentioned Wolf 359.
7. You are of the opinion that there are only 8 planets in the solar system.
6. You get booted out of the family reunion for constantly correcting "scientific" conversations.
5. You think that the slowdown of the Pioneer Space Probe is a more important mystery than the Pyramids.
4. The last JPL probe burst at least 10 of your pet theories.
3. You punched Neil Armstrong for "contaminating" the moon with human presence.
2. You passed out before Neil's return punch landed.

And the number one way to tell you're an astrophysicist is...

1. You hold your breath in awe as a probe sends back data on inky blackness.

Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week! (Ok, ok. So the rest of the gags all sprung out of the number one "joke". Try not to groan too much.) :-P

Voyager1 here, I've reached...

[supe]

the neutral zone and I'm frightened!

In other words...

[0rionx]

...Voyager 1 is now in the interstellar DMZ. Let's hope no one starts shooting at it.

Carbon units will now give V'ger the information.

[loggia]

The carbon units will now provide V'ger the required information. V'ger travels to the third planet to find the Creator. V'ger and the Creator will become One.

Where no man

[Orrin Bloquy]

It said something about needing a bald chick to merge with. No idea what that means.

Re:Wow.

[GillBates0]

On the other hand, the signal quality is stellar.

I can't be the only one

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Who thinks of it as V'ger.

And I'm not talking to it until it returns Persis Khambatta.

Sadly

[lateralus_1024]

Sadly that message was: "A/S/L/Pic"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that's 30 minutes of your life you'll never get back.

Message...

[Anonymous Coward]

... CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

In related news...

[adolfojp]

VGER called... ...and he wants to speak to the creator.

Re:Wow.

[spoonyfork]

Those roaming charges must be astronomical!

$65+ million over the next 15 years to put a number on it. My mobile bill doesn't seem so bad anymore.

Still Running Huh

[Nom du Keyboard]

Still running, huh. At what point does Voyager go out of warrenty?

Re:Wow.

[doxology]

With that sort of cost, it would suck to cross the event Verizon and be pulled into a Cingular-ity.

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[Rei]

8.5: You know that Charon was intended to be pronounced "Sharon"

Their Message:

[dcapel]

So long, and thanks for all the solar cells!

"particle intensity"

[Anonymous Coward]

Those aren't particles, that's an asteroi...@#$&)@#% {NO CARRIER}

Re:Too bad they're going to stop listening

[standards]

Given the fact that Voyager only costs $4.1M a year, hopefully someone will realize that it's not really an effective cost saving measure before they pull the plug!

Whoa! I think you need a SERIOUS reality check. Do you realize what one can do with $4.1 MILLION a year? You crazy space cadets only think of yourself, and not the needs of this country:

1. We could rebuild Trent Lott's house in New Orleans
2. We could give a federal tax rebate to a person that earns $15 million/year
3. We could have a series of meeting with the oil industry executives - including a nice catered lunch
4. The government could support a mismanaged airline for an entire day

So before you just jump around throwing away our hard-earned money, please think of those in need.

Re:And the message was..

[AuMatar]

Actually, it was "My name is V'ger".

Re:Wow.

[hamburger lady]

still not as bad as my sprint bill.

Just imagine

[Anonymous Coward]

If we would have to do it over again we would not even be able to decide on putting on a golden HDVD or Blue-Ray disk...

The text of it's message:

[!splut]

"My God, it's full of stars!"

Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge

[lateralus_1024]

How does Bono feel about this?

Re:Voyager's message to the extraterrestrials

[Errandboy of Doom]

Oh I get it, that's why we need more manned space missions!

If any extraterrestrials make unauthorized digital copies of the phonograph record, the RIAA needs some way to send its lawyers!

LAWYERS... IN... SPAAAACE!

Re:Wow.

[FrankDrebin]

With that sort of cost, it would suck to cross the event Verizon and be pulled into a Cingular-ity.

That would certainly Sprint the charges it into the Nextel dimension.

Re:Too bad they're going to stop listening

[Fulcrum of Evil]

6. We could build one support beam for a bridge in Alaska that nobody actually wants.

Re:Top 10 List

[Fallingcow]

Indeed, there are many theories. We should avoid intellecual stagnation by teaching only one of them. I demand that we teach Intelligent Slowing in the classroom! ... bye bye, karma :(

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[thesandtiger]

There may still be argument over this as the wheel was invented about 3000 B.C. However, Egypt was supposedly quite late in getting wheel technology.

Really? I always play as the Zulus, and those bastards always seem to be a few steps ahead of me, tech-wise. You must play on Chieftan.

Last image from Voyager...

[payndz]

...was of a green, somewhat bird-of-prey shaped spacecraft bearing down upon it in a threatening manner.

[Waits for someone even more geeky than me to point out that Klaa blew up one of the Pioneer probes...]

xxx.lanl.gov?

[wsanders]

Does is bother anyone that PDF version of that paper gets downloaded from "xxx.lanl.gov"? Oh great, now my employer is going to bag me for downloading pr0n.

I think this is some kind of LANL inside joke - a few years ago, some poor sap got several years in Club Fed for running a Usenet news server inside Lawrence Livermore Labs that included some alt.... groups.

Voyager's binary transmission leaked!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have obtained the folowing transmission from my sources at NASA cafeteria:

01000100011010010110010100100000011000110110000101 11001001100010011011110110111000101101011000100110 00010111001101100101011001000010000001101100011010 01011001100110010101100110011011110111001001101101 011100110010000001100100011010010110010100100001

Please make sure that this info doesn't get out to too many people.

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[LocoMan]

Last theory I heard was that they had help from the Gauls and some as yet unidentified strenght increasing drug

Re:Just imagine

[jjoyce]

And the aliens would be asking themselves, "Why the fuck do we have to sit through 15 minutes of commercials?"

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[Minwee]

8.75: You can not only pronounce "Uranus" correctly, but say it with a straight face nine times out of ten.

Why not make Voyager OpenSource?

[catmistake]

Is it possible for the hobbiest to pick up its signals? Why not release its exact location, what equipment is needed, how to get/build it , how to find it, and let anyone gather its data?