Voyager 1 is likely dead

[UnCytely]

NASA hasn't said it officially, but the part of the spacecraft that functions most like a "computer" (it is too old to have a "CPU") is still sending meaningless data, and months after this started happening, NASA's engineers have not been able to fix it.

Part of the problem is that this is the first still-going mission where every single one of the original engineers who designed the mission has died. This guy, in the video below, coined an excellent term, that I believe should catch on, called "spacecraft archeology". That is basically what NASA's current engineers have had to engage in, because they have literally nobody to talk to who was involved in designing the mission.



BTW, this guy's videos are excellent, if you can get past his deep accent. He is very underrated as a YouTube science content creator.

 

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NASA hasn't said it officially, but the part of the spacecraft that functions most like a "computer" (it is too old to have a "CPU") is still sending meaningless data, and months after this started happening, NASA's engineers have not been able to fix it.

Part of the problem is that this is the first still-going mission where every single one of the original engineers who designed the mission has died. This guy, in the video below, coined an excellent term, that I believe should catch on, called "spacecraft archeology". That is basically what NASA's current engineers have had to engage in, because they have literally nobody to talk to who was involved in designing the mission.



BTW, this guy's videos are excellent, if you can get past his deep accent. He is very underrated as a YouTube science content creator.

It sounds like it's time for Geordi to conjure up George P. Textor and Carl Sagan on the holodeck and get some solutions ironed out.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Back in 77 I said Voyager 1 was a waste of time. I stand vindicated

 

[michaelrr1]

Space doesn't exist.

2024 NFL Combine: Texas Tech's Tyler Owens says he doesn't 'believe in space' and 'other planets'

Owens' thoughts are certainly out of this world

www.cbssports.com

 

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Space doesn't exist.

2024 NFL Combine: Texas Tech's Tyler Owens says he doesn't 'believe in space' and 'other planets'

Owens' thoughts are certainly out of this world

www.cbssports.com

“I used to believe in the heliocentric thing. Like, we used to revolve around the sun and stuff, but then I started seeing flat Earth stuff, and I was like, that’s kind of interesting. And they started bringing up some valid points, so… I mean, I don’t know. It could be real. It could be bull. I don’t know.”

I always felt TT might be a little bit suspect as "higher education", but, good grief.

 

[jbclone10]

So how does this guy get treated in a professional locker room? Is everyone okay with non football related stupidity? Or is there endless ridicule for this level of dumb? I’m guessing it’s brushed off but my goodness…. Keep your stupid to yourself.

 

[Big Daddy Kang]

What about Bea Arthur? Did she make it?

 

[KnappShack]

What about Bea Arthur? Did she make it?

Bea Arthur is it

 

[pourcyne]

Where the hell did you get that idea, Hal?

 

[cydsho]

Just like Star Trek knows what happened to Emilia Earhart, Star Trek knows what happens to V'ger.

 

[Jer]

It's absolutely amazing what that thing has accomplished. It got further away from earth than my wife away from me in bed.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Just like Star Trek knows what happened to Emilia Earhart, Star Trek knows what happens to V'ger.

Great, now we have to worry about Khan...

 

[ISUTex]

Space doesn't exist.

2024 NFL Combine: Texas Tech's Tyler Owens says he doesn't 'believe in space' and 'other planets'

Owens' thoughts are certainly out of this world

www.cbssports.com

Wait. When did this conspiracy theory come out? Haven't heard that one before.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Great, now we have to worry about Khan...

 

[Kinch]

I would rate the Voyager Mission as important and more successful than the Apollo Missions.

 

[jcyclonee]

I would rate the Voyager Mission as important and more successful than the Apollo Missions.

That's because most of the Apollo missions were faked and thank goodness Elliott Gould and OJ Simpson exposed them.

 

[BCClone]

That's because most of the Apollo missions were faked and thank goodness Elliott Gould and OJ Simpson exposed them.

I thought OJ said he believes in aliens and it was the aliens that killed his wife.

 

[jcyclonee]

I thought OJ said he believes in aliens and it was the aliens that killed his wife.

That's more plausible than him not having done it.

 

[CloneLawman]

That's more plausible than him not having done it.

Elvis killed her because Q told him to do it. And Hitler and Jimi Hendrix drove the getaway car, while Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison monitored from ops.

 

[cstrunk]

There's a scary amount of people that believe the earth is flat.