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[_] Anonymous 08/11/17(Fri)23:56:40 No.3271713
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)00:59:29 No.3271743
This flash always makes me sad as fuck...
You realize that this machine, this mastery of Human ingenuity - even though it's still partially
operational, will one day soon run out of energy and go completely dead...
Although, it will continue to drift through the cosmos, and given the sparsity of Space, will
never meet another gravitational body and be consumed, nor will this microscopic machine ever be
noticed and intercepted by another Intelligent species by the time Mankind has become extinct and
our sun has died... such a lonely feel, man.
We are truly isolated out here. Make the most of every day you have under our Sun, each day is a
gift that can never be accepted again.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)04:29:44 No.3271818
>>3271743
even sadder in my opinion, it has a nuclear power generator, so it`ll still be operational by the
time its way out of our ability to communicate with us.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)05:32:39 No.3271826
Feels like a certain episode of Cowboy Bebop, I think it's the one that introduces Ed.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)06:01:24 No.3271835
>>3271713
NASA used to write weekly status reports on both Voyager craft, documenting the power budget and
monopropellent reserves. Sadly they stopped a little over two years ago.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)06:05:42 No.3271836
>>3271818
No it won't.
The radioisotopes are decaying, it's currently at like one eighth its original power now. They
had to disable plenty of instruments, either because they have plain stopped working from
ionizing radiation or they had no use for them anymore (along with needing more power for other
instruments). One day its receiver will just fail, or it'll pass out of range and that'll be
that. Then it'll get captured by another star or body, be it ours or some other within the next
few thousand years and that'll be the last of it. No one will ever find it except for some kind
of human transbillionaire who funds an expedition to find it again.
>>3271835
They realized that it'll go on for a lot fucking longer than the estimated time. None of the
Voyagers were supposed to go extrasolar anyway, just dip through the outer system through a
series of gravity assists.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)11:30:48 No.3271881
>>3271836
>None of the Voyagers were supposed to go extrasolar anyway
Actually, they did expect that after completion of its outer planets mission, that's why they
added the origin info and sounds of Earth to Voyager for the benefit of any intelligent beings
"just in case".
>> [_] Anonymous 08/12/17(Sat)11:31:51 No.3271882
>>3271881
Also,
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/voyager-golden-record-box-set-release/
