Maybe our simulation has not been implemented so robustly at that distance...
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
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Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
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Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#53Tangentially related, just watched Star Trek the Motion Picture (director's cut) for first time as an adult. One of the best tie-ins between NASA and scifi I can think of.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_P...
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#54Vger will come back, eventually.
I don't think it will. What makes you say so?
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#55Vger will come back, eventually.
Ah, so this must be when it encountered the early borg that created Vger.
EDIT: Maybe Aliens picked it up last night and they are on their way here now because we forgot to include a golden record player.
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#56Maybe our simulation has not been implemented so robustly at that distance...
The 13the floor is a movie for you.
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it’s an accurate headline for the general population. It’s sending nothing useful.
It's the most distant transmitter we're receiving anything from. Just the signal itself is useful and communicates that the probe is still powered.
> the signal itself is useful and communicates that the probe is still powered
It also tells us that ca. 1970s kit can survive past the termination shock, i.e. in interstellar space.
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, there are almost certainly alien spacecraft farther from Earth than Voyager.
I hope so!
I doubt it more and more these days. So many improbable things need to line up perfectly for this to happen.
There may be alien civilizations, but they might be on worlds without the adequate resources or the right type of gravity to reach escape velocity.
And there simply hasn’t been enough time in the universe for many space faring civilizations to have arisen yet. We might be really early.
Re: Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
#59Vger will come back, eventually.
Last year I wrote a weird short story about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/