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NASA's Voyager 1 is sending mysterious data from beyond our solar system.

posted 3 years ago by warrior-poet (1369)
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NASA's Voyager 1 is sending mysterious data from beyond our solar system. Scientists are unsure what it means.

https://news.yahoo.com/nasas-voyager-1-sending-mysterious-183923390.html

The up to now unknown origin story for V'ger, the featured "villain" of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Okay, perhaps it's really just corrupted data from a failing system, but I found the parallel humorous.
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[–] AndyKing1967 (39764) 3 years ago

So basically Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[–] mikethemartian (6990) 3 years ago

Didn’t the Klingons blow up one of the probes in Star Trek 5 for target practice?

[–] AndyKing1967 (39764) 3 years ago

Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle. I need a target that fights back.

[–] mikethemartian (6990) 3 years ago

Well that didn’t turn out very well for the three Klingon Battlecruisers that attacked V’ger at the beginning of TMP. After that they tried to play it more cautiously.

[–] warrior-poet (1369) 3 years ago

Yup!
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[–] AndyKing1967 (39764) 3 years ago

Qapla!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78491) 3 years ago

It’s probably just pooping out…45 years in space and it has travelled 14.5 Billion miles, we sure don’t build ‘em like we used to.

My 2019 Chevy has 50k on it and it’s the wimpiest, most powerless vehicle I’ve ever driven…I should be driving that Voyager 1 to work everyday, that son of a bitch was damn well-built!

[–] warrior-poet (1369) 3 years ago

Yeah most likely. It's surprising it's lasted this long, actually.
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[–] AndyKing1967 (39764) 3 years ago

"I should be driving that Voyager 1 to work everyday"

It might be a bitch to park though.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13134) 3 years ago

Yeah, the headline is a bit deceptive. Typical journalistic ploy to entice readers. They imply they're getting some strange alien data. The old space probe is just breaking down and sending crap information.

[–] warrior-poet (1369) 3 years ago

Yeah they definitely propped up the enigmatic nature of the story by employing the term "mysterious", didn't they?
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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13134) 3 years ago

Well I was hoping for something enigmatic.

[–] Valerian (-273) 3 years ago

Cosmic radiation has fried just enough transistors in the ICs so that the CPU and code still run but partially incorrectly.