Amazing to think how that probe is going to drift in the universe for billions of years.
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Its even amazing to understand that it is one of only two man made object that are no longer in our Solar System. Both passed beyond our sun's solar winds years ago.
More amazing when you realize one of those objects drifts into the system of an advanced semi organic society who rebuild it and make it an AI then send it back out into the universe to continue it's mission.
I watched a documentary on it when I was younger, highly recommend.
Knew what it was before I even clicked on it. Well played, Madison420. Well played, indeed.
Both passed beyond our sun’s solar winds years ago.
It even managed to circumvent the deadly winds of Uranus.
It’ll be back. Star Trek made a historical documentary about it.
a historical documentary on something that will happen hurts my brain.
"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father." - HHGTG
Harry Potter 8 : so it turns out Voldemort put horcruxes on space probes
"History records a small previously unknown town and school outside London was decimated in 2053 when NASA space probe Voyager 2 inexorably changed course doing a U-turn beyond the Termination Shock of our Solar system and started accelerating quickly back toward Earth. At the time of impact Voyager 2 was traveling faster that 35,000 miles per hour."
"While scientists continue to argue over what principle was at play here even calling into question a number of established cosmological models, witnesses say that 50 years prior a young man was seen pointing a stick at the sky and yelling 'Accio Voyager 2!'. This has been dismissed as coincidence as the world still came to terms with the loss of so many lives. Prime Minister and our Dark Lord Voldemort, may he live forever, was unavailable for comment."
God I would love something like that in a movie.
Typical start where the villain exposits too much, hinting at the locations of 5 special items. The plan is obvious but the heroes spell it out anyway: they need to do collect items 1-5 to stop him.
Each item is increasing difficult with each one but the heroes persevere, just barely surviving 4.
They now need to find 5 but the clues don't make sense and they are running out of time. The nerdy hero has a revelation. "....I think he means the ISS"
They get in touch with the nerdy hero's old boss who just happens to work at NASA!
The engineer listens calmy and replies, "Yes, that does sound like a description of the ISS."
The heroes plead, "We have to go NOW or the world will end!"
"Yeahhhh so...you can't just launch a rocket. It's raining in Cape Canaveral and no one is going to approve that. Hell, none of you have had any training so you'd probably pass out and die on the way. Sorry."
Psh, everyone knows its easier to train people to be astronauts than train astronauts to do other tasks. I saw a documentary about this in the Summer of '98.
In the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfic (https://hpmor.com/) Voldemort puts a horcrux on Pioneer.
Another HPMOR fan!
Doh, I got them mixed up. I thought it was on the golden record on Voyager
And Harry Potter trips over a magic macguffin in the street that let's people named "Harry" teleport to the exact location of space probes. And also breathe in space for some reason.
Accio Voyager!
Is the “heartbeat” carrier signal being broadcast in all directions, or is there enough angular spread that we can pick up a bit of the signal if it’s two degrees off?
It’s a directional signal, and given the distances requires some precise alignment.
More problematic, it’s just really weak inverse square law means the signal is loosing a lot of its strength.
Momonosk! I can hear them! The drums of liberation!
SPACEBOY!