NASA's Voyager 1 set to leave solar system, 11 billion miles away

[cale]

Pretty sure there's a civilization out there confused about the radio transmissions they've been receiving telling them about a spacecraft hurtling towards them. Going to die out long before they ever get a chance to find it.

[kid325e]

Love reading about stuff like the. The unknown is so interesting. Wish I was more interested in it at home verses here at work. :thumbdown:

[Fusion]

This is really awesome http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ci...cultivos12.htm
Especially stuff like "Why did Sagan et al. think (in 1974) that “our” DNA consists of about 3 billion more base pairs (4,294,441,822) than the entire genetic community at large acknowledged at the time? And, why did they apparently choose to send that “erroneous” information into space in their historic Arecibo Transmission?" makes ya wonder.

[CW325]

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing.

[tg318is]

[Sailor37]

Yea, but this....

[george graves]

^At first I was...."why is it a square?...that should be a circle!"....then I realized that I was looking at was a zoomed in part. Eeek! That's tiny.

[LBJefferies]

Isn't it more like 120 light years?

[m73m95]

Isn't it more like 120 light years?

If you want to count electro-magnetic interference from man-made objects, the "static" could be nearly 300 years old (so, 300 light years).

[LBJefferies]

If you want to count electro-magnetic interference from man-made objects, the "static" could be nearly 300 years old (so, 300 light years).

I don't understand. Wouldn't radio have been our earliest signals to leave earth?

[AndrewBird]

I don't understand. Wouldn't radio have been our earliest signals to leave earth?

Anything and everything electronic emits some kind of electromagnetic signal, even a lightbulb. So think about all the things that were created long before radio even existed.

[Xat1cZ]

Should've put people on there!!

[VANOS714]

In for the pictures.

[m73m95]

If you could take a ship, and head away from the planet at 2x the speed of light for 40-50 years, you could watch "I Love Lucy" and "Leave it to Beaver" as it aired live, for our parents.


That kinda shit is cool to me. If an Alien species finds our shit, they would only know us by how we were on the first radio shows, then tv shows... chronologically ordered. Meaning, that even if we sent out messages today, showing what we know now, the aliens still wouldn't get it until after they saw everything before that message (Since it all travels at the speed of light). "Gunsmoke" and Johnny Carson FTW!

[cale]

In for the pictures.

The shot it took when they turned it back towards Earth when it made it out past Pluto in 90'.