It's Alive! Voyager 1 Sends NASA A Message From Deep Space! Where Is It Now?
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Published 2024-05-18
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Everyone’s favorite space probes, the Voyagers, are back in the headlines again, and recently it looked like we almost lost communication with Voyager 1 for good.
Back on December 12, 2023, NASA reported that Voyager 1’s flight data system, which consists of three onboard computers, started sending binary gibberish data back to Earth; a repeating pattern of ones and zeros that made no sense to the engineers.
When the glitch first occurred, engineers could still send signals to the distant probe and could tell it was still operating, but something was clearly wrong.
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All Comments (21)
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Basically all they had to do was clear cookies and cache 😂
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Voyager 1: I have achieved sentience NASA: What nonsense is this? Fix the glitch immediately!
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15.5 BILLION miles away. Not just around the corner for us. But a ‘gnat’s hair’ distance in cosmic terms.
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Meanwhile my Phone dies after 2 years....
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"10001000100110001" Translated: "Humans stay in your lane." Mysterious alien civ.
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Voyagers may be the finest most dependable objects humanity has ever made! Im so glad to see it will live a little longer, i was 3 months old when they launched, they've been with me for its entirety.
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So crazy to think about where that little probe could be and the things it might see. Truly an amazing piece of technology.
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Imagine the voyager 1 stopped sending signals, and then after a few thousand years, it suddenly resumes, confusing modern scientist because the language(code) it sends is already ancient and nobody knows it except for one archeologist who studies ancient computers. the last message was a few hundred years ago it says: "we are coming"
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Hang in there little ones. We owe you so much and we'll listen to your stories for as long as you live.
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I am inordinately fond of these two little guys as they migrate their way thru deep dark space... and its deeply impressive how the NASA engineers kept at it till they found a fix to reset #1 😊
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V’ger is now self aware
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I think it's time to send out another Voyager Imagine with today's technology how much faster, further, longer, and stronger the craft and signals could be.
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I don't think we will live long enough to learn about space.
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Unbelievable! Voyager 1 is still operating and sending signals to Earth after more than 4 decades. 😲 A testament to the persistence of technology and human desire to explore. I have also researched this issue a lot.
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The Keith Richards of spaceships.
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Voyager 1 and 2 are my favorite space probes. Launched about 4 years before I was born. The probes are still going with 1970's technology, WOW!
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Couldn’t build an appliance that would last that long today
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Very good - I was 17 when Voyager 1 launched.
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I was born 11 years AFTER these probes launched, but it's no less fascinating. Man... I bet aliens already kinda know that there's a planet full of violent, psychotic apes in the Sol system, and stay away as a result but it'd be cool someday if they showed up with a probe or 2 (or 10) in tow like "hey quit leaving your shit laying around"
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I'm just worried when VGER comes back to destroy the carbon units!
