Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

[Kevin S]

On iPlayer there's a 90 minute Storyville on Voyager. It's excellent.

[Diable Rouge]

On iPlayer there's a 90 minute Storyville on Voyager. It's excellent.

Yes, that was the Irish film myself and TAB have referred to in various threads - truly excellent.

[Gangster Octopus]

Voyager 2 joins its sibling.

[Benjm]

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.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Well I’ve heard Urban Outfitters, Stateside are selling CASSETTE tapes, so excuse me while I visit the loft...

[Diable Rouge]

Almost certainly pulsars, but there's always a 0.000001% chance of an interstellar message:

https://www.thejournal.ie/canada-fas...32170-Jan2019/

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I recognise that figure at the bottom:

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Hahahaha.

[Gangster Octopus]

Voyager 2 speaks.

[anton pulisov]

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.

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.

[ursus arctos]

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).

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

They really have some extraordinary engineers at nasa. This makes the catastrophic organisational nightmare of the Mars sample return so tragic

[Hot Pepsi]

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 their fault that Nature is the most prestigious journal.

It’s not a good system.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Has it (V-ger) referred to us as 'carbon units' yet?