Voyager 1 Passes 100 AU from the Sun 326
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, Voyager 1 passed 100 astronomical units from the sun as it continues operating after nearly 30 years in space. That is about 15 billion kilometers or 9.3 billion miles as it travels about 1 million miles per day. Scientists still hope it will find the edge of the solar system and get into interstellar space."
Poor V-ger (Score:5, Funny)
Remember "The Truman Show"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor V-ger (Score:5, Funny)
um... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
I think that exceeds the maximum RTT for TCP.
Batteries not included...... (Score:5, Funny)
30 years without changing the batteries *AND* 30 years without exploding. Can I get one of those?
Layne
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
Really throws the game when he gets all choppy and stuff....
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:V'ger 1 and Amateur DSN (Score:2, Funny)
Fascinating that he was able to use Voyager 1 to host his site...
Re:Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Batteries not included...... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but the RIAA'd be all up on your arse.
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the color of space, your basic space color - is it's black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Re:How does Voyager avoid crashing into Obstacles (Score:5, Funny)
Will it ever find life? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe floating down from the skies with a note inside...
"Looks like you lost something, but jeez, it was hard to track you down with more planets than its schematic shows!"
Great (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does Voyager avoid crashing into Obstacles (Score:3, Funny)
The reason it hasn't run into anything is because space is basically empty. There's very little out there to hit and what is there is a long way from anything else. So, not it's not *VERY* lucky to have not hit anything. If it had hit something, it would have been very *UN*lucky.
What's the point? In another 30 years... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amazing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which Edge? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
You insensitive clod! He did to work for NASA, but after the Mars incident he's been unemployed.
Voyager passes 100AU (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How does Voyager avoid crashing into Obstacles (Score:3, Funny)
Are you saying it's big even compared to the walk to the chemist?
Re:Poor V-ger (Score:5, Funny)
Or gets to the end where the gorilla throws barrels at you.
Re:Can we still ping it? (Score:5, Funny)
Rodzilla! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To put the distance in perspective... (Score:2, Funny)
To clarify, Voyager 1 is 100 AU away *from the sun*, not [necessarily] from us. With a little fudging for the Earth's location relative to the Sun, we could say that it is only 99 AU away from us.
So any of you rapture-seekers still have another chance once it's 101 AU from the sun. (It's like the millenium thing all over again!)
- RG>
Did I ever tell you guys about the time... (Score:4, Funny)
We were trying to fire a game up, and on comes Voyager 1, with its 26 hour ping time. We all laughed and then booted it off.
Where Is It? (Score:1, Funny)
Voyager is quite a milesonte for mankind (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Voyager passes 100AU (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Poor V'ger (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How does Voyager avoid crashing into Obstacles (Score:1, Funny)
That's just peanuts compared to space.
Re:Poor V-ger (Score:2, Funny)
Pitstop (Score:4, Funny)