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Title: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Khalee1 on May 25, 2005, 11:08:49 am
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/05/25/voyager.space/index.html
Title: Re: Well Voyger one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: J. Carney on May 25, 2005, 03:50:36 pm
Fair Winds, Voyager... hopefully someone will find you soon.
Title: Re: Well Voyger one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Dracho on May 25, 2005, 05:04:18 pm
And they will be good neighbors..

Quote from: J. Carney on May 25, 2005, 03:50:36 pm
Fair Winds, Voyager... hopefully someone will find you soon.
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Harlax on May 28, 2005, 05:28:13 am
Good, there is still time to reprogram it with the instruction "remember, be nice to the carbon units, ok?"
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Nemesis on May 29, 2005, 01:11:41 pm
Quote from: Harlax on May 28, 2005, 05:28:13 am
Good, there is still time to reprogram it with the instruction "remember, be nice to the carbon units, ok?"


Sorry it is too late for that.  Link (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050529)
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Dash Jones on May 30, 2005, 09:03:51 am
On that note, how far would Television signals travel before losing all coherency?
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: J. Carney on May 30, 2005, 09:13:45 am
Quote from: Dash Jones on May 30, 2005, 09:03:51 am
On that note, how far would Television signals travel before losing all coherency?

TV signals are just electromagnetic radiation. Since we are picking up the same frequency signals from other GALAXIES that are hundread of billions of LY away...

Well, YOU decide. ;)
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Capt_Bearslayer_XC on May 31, 2005, 06:45:47 am
V'Ger!!!!
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Just plain old Punisher on May 31, 2005, 05:11:21 pm
It depends. Electromagnetic waves are strange things. Due to certain circumstances they can travel much greater distances than they normally would.

We're using radio telescopes to listen to everything from Binary Stars to super novas. Of course, all these events happend millions of years ago, and have a power output 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times greater than any TV signal man has ever broadcasted.

In millions of years if someone with the right equipment was paying attention, and exactly the right conditions existed...they might detect our first TV signals.

I wonder what they'll make of I love lucy.
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: Commander Maxillius on June 01, 2005, 10:55:45 am
Quote from: Punisher on May 31, 2005, 05:11:21 pm
It depends. Electromagnetic waves are strange things. Due to certain circumstances they can travel much greater distances than they normally would.

We're using radio telescopes to listen to everything from Binary Stars to super novas. Of course, all these events happend millions of years ago, and have a power output 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times greater than any TV signal man has ever broadcasted.

In millions of years if someone with the right equipment was paying attention, and exactly the right conditions existed...they might detect our first TV signals.

I wonder what they'll make of I love lucy.

...or Hitler  :-\
Title: Re: Well Voyager one at the edge of our solar system 8.7 Billion miles from sun
Post by: J. Carney on June 01, 2005, 11:54:15 am
Quote from: Maxillius on June 01, 2005, 10:55:45 am
Quote from: Punisher on May 31, 2005, 05:11:21 pm
I wonder what they'll make of I love lucy.
...or Hitler  :-\
... or Churchill.

Remember, our best and worst wind up on TV. REally, if they want an accurate view of the best and worst of humanity- well, till Vietnam, anyway ::) - it'll be a pretty good way to find out what they are dealing with.