Voyager 1 and 2 update

[Steve_In_29]

For you science geeks as well as anyone wanting a break from all the usual stuff. Some of you younger guys might not even be aware of these craft and their journey.

Don't know how many on this board are interested in science and astronomy, but here is a mind-blowing video about the Voyager spacecraft. Where they are now, and especially what is in store for them in the long-term future.

[bbvideo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIB8vauWSI[/bbvideo]

"The Voyagers are destined, perhaps for all eternity, to wander the cosmos. Carrying with them, the only traces of our human existence."

Kind of makes all our daily concerns fade into insignificance.

 

[Winmagbill]

You mean V'ger? Saw the movie.

 

[Steve_In_29]

Hopefully you are being facetious and not just a product of today's educational system.

If the former then :-D ...if the latter :?

 

[Desert Rat]

I think my dad had assembled some part of those here at Hughes. I can't remember for sure which spacecraft he done some work on.
Either way, pretty cool.
My name is on Mars with the InSight lander!!! :handgestures-thumbup:

 

[Doc Holliday]

You mean V'ger? Saw the movie.

Yea, if some bald chick walks up to you and says 'VGer wants to touch the Creator'....just say no. :naughty:

In all seriousness, though, the Voyager probes may not last long, lots of stuff flying around the universe, randomly smashing into each other...

 

[Steve_In_29]

Yea, if some bald chick walks up to you and says 'VGer wants to touch the Creator'....just say no. :naughty:

In all seriousness, though, the Voyager probes may not last long, lots of stuff flying around the universe, randomly smashing into each other...

42 years seems like a good run so far and interstellar space is a lot less crowded then the solar system.

 

[Blue109]

Whole lot more empty space than debris. My money is on it NOT smashing into anything.