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Originally posted by atopsecret
Just some interesting facts.
1. Speed 37,000 mph
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Originally posted by MystikStylez
Very interesting to say the least.. has anyone entertained the Idea that the voyager leaving the solar system could in some way Correlate with the Dec 21st long count end? Whether it is information transmitted back that changes everything in a positive light/ unites mankind. Or to play devils advocate for all you pessimists, an Alien entity tracks its trajectory back to earth? lol
Originally posted by Riposte
Originally posted by theabsolutetruth
it wasn't predicted
Haha oh yeah really? I guess you only read articles from NASA and the Bad Astronomy forum then, huh?edit on 4-12-2012 by Riposte because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ~widowmaker~
So screw hypersonic drives, we just need a big magnet with the opposite attraction and zoom zoom to the stars ^^
really wish they put any kind of camera on the thing, hell id even take old crappy black and white ^^ would be so freakin cool to really see/not see whats out there. we could be flying through an intergalactic junk yard and not even know it 8o(
Originally posted by prevenge
reply to post by theabsolutetruth
i wonder if this 'particle highway' will have any sort of relevance to any fulfillment of the Mayan myth of the 'serpent cord' connecting our solar system to the black hole at the galactic center....(hypothesized as a wormhole)
Originally posted by Chrisfishenstein
I am confused......Wouldn't we find out about what is happening today in 35 years from now??
Originally posted by Chrisfishenstein
reply to post by theabsolutetruth
I am confused......Wouldn't we find out about what is happening today in 35 years from now??
Or what we are hearing about today happened 35 years ago?? But the Voyager left 35 years ago, so it can't be at this point this fast, right??
There is something fishy with this to me.......
Communication system
The radio communication system of Voyager 1 was designed to be used up to and beyond the limits of the solar system during the extremely long flight of this space probe. The communication system includes a 3.7 meter diameter parabolic dish high-gain antenna (see diagram) to send and receive radio waves via the three Deep Space Network stations on the Earth. These modulated waves are placed in the S-band (about 13 cm in wavelength) and X-band (about 3.6 cm in wavelength) which provided a bit rate as high as 115.2 kilobits per second when Voyager 1 was at the distance of Jupiter from the Earth, and many fewer kilobits per second at larger distances. When Voyager 1 is unable to communicate directly with the Earth, its digital tape recorder (DTR) can record up to 62,500 kilobytes of data for transmission at another time.[9] The length of time needed to send messages to Voyager 1 or to receive messages on the Earth depends on the straight-line distance between the two according to the simple equation t = D/c, where D is the distance and c is the speed of light (about 300,000 km/s). As noted below at the February 8, 2012 entry under Events, the communications signal transit time is over 16 hours.
Originally posted by Imtor
Exoplanets and deep space travel are my biggest interest, so I would be very curious to see how it goes. So... for 35 years or some more, a craft is able to leave the solar system. Too bad there is no craft sent to take pictures far far away.
Originally posted by tommo2522
i really hope something or some one finds these voyager dudes, would be epic is someone turned up n was like m8 heres your rubbish back , on buy the way we have the cure for all your diseases