Obligatory: https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
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Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#32How is it possible to still be able to get a signal from a spacecraft that's so far away? How can the antenna be directional enough while still being pointed right at the Earth? How do we remove the noise?
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#33This is an absolutely terrible headline. Voyager is communicating with Earth, full stop. The data from it's scientific instruments is coming back in a fixed, repeating pattern, meaning we aren't getting anything meaningful from it, but it is absolutely still communicating with Earth.
Communication means an exchange of information. Receiving a signal does not.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> farthest man-made object that we know about and actively track
What other object could be further away? I'm curious
In a nice chart for you:
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#36This is an absolutely terrible headline. Voyager is communicating with Earth, full stop. The data from it's scientific instruments is coming back in a fixed, repeating pattern, meaning we aren't getting anything meaningful from it, but it is absolutely still communicating with Earth.
Communication means an exchange of information. Receiving a signal does not.
We receive information that its radios are still working.
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#37How is it possible to still be able to get a signal from a spacecraft that's so far away? How can the antenna be directional enough while still being pointed right at the Earth? How do we remove the noise?
Voyager 1 has a large 12-foot diameter directional radio antenna that it keeps pointed at Earth. If you look at photos of Voyager, the antenna (the big dish) basically is most of what you see: it's bigger than everything else on craft.
There are radio antennas across the Earth listening to its very weak signal.
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#38Vger will come back, eventually.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> farthest man-made object that we know about and actively track
The manhole cover from Operation Plumbob? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
TIL about a 2,000 lb "manhole cover" (big armored plate they welded on the end of a pipe to contain (HA!) the explosion) that got launched into the atmosphere in 1957 by a nuclear explosion test, leaving ground at 150,000 mph (220,000 fps). Spoiler: it probably vaporized.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I don't think you should use the phrase "viscerally hyperbolic", I think it overstates the degree to which their comment communicates an excess of emotion. Instead, consider saying "I don't hate it, but I don't love it" to express agreement with the sentiment, but disagreement with the degree.
Everyone's experience is subjective. Maybe they really hated it.
I also hate the wording, it threw me off for a few seconds and made me lose min train of thought until I realized the author simply doesn't know what the word "additionally" means.