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Perhaps our descendants will build a museum around it without ever changing its velocity.
Someone (something?) will probably make a religion out of it. ;)
There was no beginning; there is only the voyage.
In life, we voyage together, and in death we shall voyage alone.
Now, then, and forever voyaging.
Does anybody know how they identified the non-working regions of the chip, without being able to probe the chip?
The substance of this news release is incredible, but its style is also admirable. The authors managed to convey in seven paragraphs a concise and comprehensible explanation of how the team resolved the technical issue.
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[SPOILER ALERT] It was the surprise ending for the first Star Trek film... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Pictur...
That was Voyager 6, a fictional probe based on the real life probes of the same name. Earth probe gone bad is a common trope in Sci-Fi. Star Trek alone has a few episodes: - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nomad - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Friendship_1 Also the Doomsday machine was a very different type of probe to V’ger https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(e...
Yep, 45 years old hardware, still getting software updates. Hey Apple, JPL is close to you, can you get someone to bike over and see how they do it? Thanks!
There's something very beautiful about Voyager's journey so far. I hope one day when we're a true interstellar species we'll still keep tabs on it. The data may not be useful anymore, but it would be cool to imagine a year 3000 society with a little "Look at where Voyager is now :)" tool that you can see its path and where humans have colonized by comparison.
Perhaps our descendants will build a museum around it without ever changing its velocity.
Must be difficult debugging a system with a 45 hour round trip each step of the way. And here I thought debugging a system on customer premises was tough. Hats off!