On iPlayer there's a 90 minute Storyville on Voyager. It's excellent.
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The Voyager doc was repeated on BBC4 last night. I have some doubts about the golden record that the news that a stylus and graphic instructions on how to play it were also included have only partly assuaged. That said, history suggests that they were right to choose it over the golden 8-track cartridge.
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Almost certainly pulsars, but there's always a 0.000001% chance of an interstellar message:
https://www.thejournal.ie/canada-fas...32170-Jan2019/
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Speaking of interplanetary craft, they're putting together the test vehicle fpr the space X SpaceShip. It's....... Shiny.
The purpose of this thing is to test out the engines, fly up in the air, and come back to land, going gradually higher and faster.
The final planned vehicle is reassuringly retro looking.
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The second set of measurements, by Voyager 2, give new insights into the nature of the heliosphere’s limits because on Voyager 1 a crucial instrument designed to directly measure the properties of plasma had broken in 1980. Measurements published in five separate papers in Nature Astronomy reveal that Voyager 2 encountered a much sharper, thinner heliosphere boundary than Voyager 1.
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This is outstanding
For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars).
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Originally posted by anton pulisov View Post
The NASA Voyager program is a publicly funded program launched 40 years ago and funded by the taxpayer ever since. The first then the scientists who get the messages being sent back today think is, oooh, I can publish this in a Nature-branded paywalled journal and further my career. Fuck 'em, I'm not reading it.
It’s not a good system.
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