It’s amazing that we can even communicate with something so far away. Science is ridiculously awesome regardless of how much a certain wing of the political spectrum would have you think otherwise.
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How about the fact that this man made piece of hardware from the last millennium is still ticking away out there? Talk about build quality.
How would JD Power rank it?
"Fucking A"
The agency’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the equivalent of an interstellar “shout” more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) to Voyager 2, instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself and turn its antenna back to Earth.
so basically... "g'day mate! give it a burl and take a good squizz over here!". did I get that one right?
Nah it was more like " Oi cunt, the fuck you doing!? straighten yourself out mate! for fucks sake!"
“Satellites on the piss up there, needs to get its shit sorted.”
Token Aussie reporting in. Good effort.
Given this is was described as a shout this probably more of a 'COOOO-EEEEEEEee!'
Or maybe a 'OI OVER HERE YA CUNT', but I cant speak to the tension level at the Canberra DSC.
LOL! perfect. thanks for the education. :-)
Well last I saw from the aussie instance they got all offended somebody used the word cunt in a post title.
I tried to find it but didn't see the post in my comment history. Just thought it was pretty ridiculous.
You missed the best part that it only takes 18 hours for the signal to travel 20 billion kilometers. That's the longest two way communication in history and honestly that's not going to change soon.
looks at TCP 3-way handshake in absolute horror
Also puts into perspective that many stars we observe are millions of light years away.
That's absolutely mind bending that they have the accuracy to shoot a beam of information that far, and are able to hit the craft, while it's spinning
Voyager 2 is one of the coolest achievements of all time. Are there any efforts under way for anything similar with modern tech?
New Horizons, the one that photoed Pluto, is expected to reach the edge of the solar system in 2040.
The best news I've heard all week!
I'm irritated by the fact that not a word has been said about where exactly it is right now. I googled and found: it's outside of the solar system and the sun's influence.
It's not that I've never heard of it, I just needed a confirmation that I was hoping to find in the article.