Comments on: Where are the Voyagers now?

By: Trek man

Trek man — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:56:44 +0000

I think we all really know the outcome. Voyager 1 will encounter a number of alien races who will add to it and make it in to a giant space ship. It will then return to earth and to be the center piece of one of the most boring Scifi movies ever.

By: Evergreen

Evergreen — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 04:05:27 +0000

It seems to me that some of you miss the point of these space craft. As human beings, it is our nature to explore not only our small planet, but the universe itself. To know that these little objects we have created are flying to the edge of our solar system is not only inspiring, but it creates in our mind an image of us as a race reaching out to the stars, beyond our every day lives…..

By: Ordocaelum

Ordocaelum — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:49:38 +0000

If the probes made it that far, than it is plausible for a man to make it as well. The next issue would be to figure out travel in the heliosphere and through the termination shock.

By: Loa

Loa — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:14:14 +0000

To call these two probes junk is kinda like saying there are these ramshackle pyramid type things in Egypt that really need repointing and there’s this old wall in china that’s probably best of just coming down. My money is that the first test flight of any truly interstellar vehicle will be to catch up with these things so they can be brought back, and put in a museum so our descendants can go “They went to the moon with tech like that? Wow they were brave.” How ever far away they get they will always be the modern equivalent of the Santa Maria and the person (or cyborg) who pin points their exact location and salvages them will end up stupidly rich and famous, if only for being insane enough to even attempt it. I can imagine that interview.

“So person X, you spent most of your life developing a revolutionary new engine, proved all the skeptics wrong when you actually got an anti matter shunt to work, and your first use of it was to salvage two old probes that are obsolete and out of power?”

“Yer well, I thought being the first interstellar traveler from earth and being responsible for first contact was a bit greedy, hahaha, No on a serious note, we needed to know the navigation systems were that accurate, don’t want to aim for Vega and miss now do we.”

By: Gregg

Gregg — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:59:43 +0000

A lone Scoutship came upon a small metal object floating in interstellar space, once the ship return to their home world there was great celebration. First Contact! First Contact! The joy was felt over the entire planet “We are not alone.” “We must go there.”
With great effort and expense they left their home world and headed for Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. After many years and much hardship they arrived and settled into orbit around this rare and special planet, ready to meet the only other intelligent species know to them.
With the greatest excitement they turned their sensors toward the Planet Earth.
When they saw the destroyed dead planet before them, they could only cry.
Maybe the human species wasn’t so intelligent after all.

By: Doctor Q

Doctor Q — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:36:50 +0000

Bad news — the LP record’s content has been ruled to be in violation of the digital millenium copyright act. Once an Alien species tries to play it they will be subject to monetary fines and imprisonment.

By: drasil

drasil — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:49:30 +0000

@bnizzle: my mind is blown

By: Bnizzle

Bnizzle — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:44 +0000

What if it reaches earth again when we’ve rotated to the other side of the galaxy. Man that’s deep

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:35:19 +0000

Kevin raised a good point. How is it that neither V1 or V2 haven’t been struck by anything? The foreign debris wouldn’t even need to be very large, considering their speed. I wonder if they’ll still be transmitting once they’ve breached the heliopause?

p.s. (couldn’t resist): Alien, after just arriving on Earth, “Take us to your DJ,” it says, holding up the ‘Sounds of Earth’ disc. At this point, the Army opens fire and riddles the alien’s body with bullets.

By: Jow

Jow — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:57:43 +0000

It’s amazing technical feat. We were never there but it still works and sends data.

ROB if you think it would be better not to send anything into space to check out what is there, then you better not enter the internet, because it is just the same in principle. Human’s are reaching out and the probes reached their goal loooong time ago. New missions are added because they won’t die.

FASCINATING!