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Voyager 1 Worries NASA With Eerie Messages Sent To Earth (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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giant freakin robot domain so gotta be good. shields up! still wondering what was eerie about " incomprehensible code of repeating 1s and 0s,". oh well, it's the journey. I remember when it launched in '77 so it beat every calculator I had in 7th grade.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

So sad. Like watching a friend go off into the unknown future. Goodbye Voyager I. 😢🪐

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

V'ger

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are the final digits of Pi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

like startrek, it's becoming self aware and follows gold disk instructions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually a reboot fixes these problems but it's possible the cold and radiation have finally taken their toll

I know they dont want to do anything drastic yet since it takes some 48hrs to send a receive anything. And it they brick it by accident, then it's totally shot

Here's an article from NPR with more insight;
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236033493/nasas-voyager-1-spacecraft-is-talking-nonsense-its-friends-on-earth-are-worried

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Space is empty," he says, "and the probability of Voyager ever running into a planet is probably slim to none."

I keep reminding myself that we take for granted things thought impossible not long ago.