"We'd Like To Fix it, But It's Out Of Warranty..."...

[vienna]

Something to consider the next time you take something in to be serviced:

Rocket blast from the past: Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 --

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/02/rocket-blast-from-the-past-voyager-1-fires-thrusters-last-used-in-1980/







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[Rhodes]

They don't build like they used to!

[vienna]

I wonder if NASA bought an Extended Warranty Package on the Voyagers?... :hmmm:







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[Reece]

How's that eh!! 13 billion miles away and it still responds to commands in old assembly language, probably 8080 or Z80.
:up:

[propbeanie]

nah... Commodore Basic...

[Gargamel]

Well heck, look at spirit and oppurtunity. 90 warranty, and Opportunity is still roving away some 14 (?) years later. Spirit only stopped cause it gut stuck in the 'mud' and got buried by sand. Those are way more impressive to me than a nuclear powered probe opening a valve, but that's still very impressive!

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/opportunity.png

[propbeanie]

Kind of worries one for the "2001: A Space Odyssey" storyline?... the Voyager and HAL... I remember when 2001 seemed ~way~ in the future... of course, the memory is rapidly fading... what'd I have for breakfast??

[vienna]

Just you wait till V'ger gets back...








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[Gargamel]

Just you wait till V'ger gets back...



Well since it's at escape velocity, and Not having any real data in front of me.... Assuming a galactic year is about 250 million years, and also assuming V's galactic orbital path will lead to an encounter with the sun again, we're gonna have to wait probably a couple galactic years or so before it whizzes by again.

Boy, that'd be a cool nerd party, capture and retrieval of Earth's first interstellar object.

Or was this a "ST Movie" reference?


But I keep thinking of another Star Trek (Movie?) where the Klingons find Voyager I think and use it for target practice....

[Rhodes]

Well since it's at escape velocity, and Not having any real data in front of me.... Assuming a galactic year is about 250 million years, and also assuming V's galactic orbital path will lead to an encounter with the sun again, we're gonna have to wait probably a couple galactic years or so before it whizzes by again.

Boy, that'd be a cool nerd party, capture and retrieval of Earth's first interstellar object.


In a stable quantum field, achieving top warp speeds, it will be in a blink of an eye! :D


Or was this a "ST Movie" reference?

But I keep thinking of another Star Trek (Movie?) where the Klingons find Voyager I think and use it for target practice....
Yes, Star Trek V!
So the first thing the Klingons will see of us is going to be a old space probe? And so voyager will get to the beta quadrant? They sure don't build like they used to!

[Gargamel]

In a stable quantum field, achieving top warp speeds, it will be in a blink of an eye! :D


Yes, Star Trek V!
So the first thing the Klingons will see of us is going to be a old space probe? And so voyager will get to the beta quadrant? They sure don't build like they used to!

No no, it's long after contact and war has been made. It think it was the one where the klingon homeworld exploded or something, and they were trying to make peace. A rogue captain, of course, caused trouble, and I think the introductory scene for them is them coming upon V1 and using it for target practice. Which begs the other question, in the 400 (?) years or so in the future, V1 would still be close to the solar system, speaking on a warp drive scale. So what were they doing there? Hmmmm... :hmmm:

[vienna]

https://78.media.tumblr.com/c3e6427cddc6c5cadfb4133f28227229/tumblr_n26etnMGrR1trty0oo1_400.gif









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[Rhodes]

Gargamel, your mixing Star Trek V and VI.
As I replied, the scene of a Klingon captain in a bird-of-pray ship destroying Voyager 1 is from Star Trek V.
Star Trek VI as the Klingon moon Praxis exploding in the beginning and they want to make peace, etc.
What I wrote after Star Trek V in my postwas in form of a joke, taking what you said in your post. So, the klingons existing for sure and the first thing they are going to see from us is going be an old probe.