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After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« on: 05 September 2017, 21:04:09 »
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #1 on: 05 September 2017, 21:21:06 »
You've seen where one of them ends up in Star Trek, except it's changed it's name to V-ger.
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #2 on: 05 September 2017, 22:51:27 »
If they hadn't been built 40 years ago they'd both have blue screened by now and we'd be wondering how to send someone up to do a <ctrl><alt><delete>. ;D

<Posted while listening to a 44 year old record on my 36 year old turntable> ::)
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #3 on: 06 September 2017, 07:41:20 »
I have followed the Voyager missions for a while, and never fail to be amazed
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #4 on: 06 September 2017, 11:05:49 »
Quote from: STEMO on 05 September 2017, 21:21:06
You've seen where one of them ends up in Star Trek, except it's changed it's name to V-ger.

Wasn't that just a smudge on its nameplate?
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #5 on: 06 September 2017, 11:35:09 »
Quote from: Lincs Robert on 06 September 2017, 11:05:49
Quote from: STEMO on 05 September 2017, 21:21:06
You've seen where one of them ends up in Star Trek, except it's changed it's name to V-ger.

Wasn't that just a smudge on its nameplate?
Yeah.....but it took clever arse Spock ages to figure it out  ;D
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #6 on: 06 September 2017, 12:08:16 »
Well they are much better at phoning home than me then!
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #7 on: 06 September 2017, 12:51:15 »
Quote from: Fuse 19 on 06 September 2017, 12:08:16
Well they are much better at phoning home than me then!
Young 'un is off to uni next week. He has been told that, if he doesn't at least text his mum daily for the first week or so, I will drive over there and extract his tongue.......through his arsehole.  :)
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #8 on: 06 September 2017, 13:37:26 »
And they say technology has moved on? I beg to differ when a poxy iphone battery only lasts half a day ;D
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #9 on: 06 September 2017, 20:12:20 »
I wonder if it gets phone calls about claiming its PPI back? :D ;D
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #10 on: 07 September 2017, 12:51:12 »
19 hours to receive a message speeding to Earth at 186,000 miles a second. :o :o :o That is a hell of a long way to us but barely 'next door' when it comes to space travel.
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #11 on: 07 September 2017, 12:54:06 »
Quote from: STEMO on 06 September 2017, 12:51:15
Quote from: Fuse 19 on 06 September 2017, 12:08:16
Well they are much better at phoning home than me then!
Young 'un is off to uni next week. He has been told that, if he doesn't at least text his mum daily for the first week or so, I will drive over there and extract his tongue.......through his arsehole.  :)

Be quick, because if you're not this very tongue will spend it's time exploring the 'hidden crevices' of the opposite sex. :D
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Re: After 40 years Voyager 1 & 2 still phone home everyday
« Reply #12 on: 07 September 2017, 20:44:15 »
13 billion miles.
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