Originally posted by Dragonfly79
It's expected to last at least until 2025, what a design, humanity owes the US. It would be an anticlimax though if all contact with Voyager would be lost after it goes beyond our solar system. Who knows, space there might be so unforgiving and harsh it just breaks down. Or it might go on but there's some unknown stuff which blocks or scrambles radio transmissions. But if everything goes well then there is little to stop humanity from building spacecraft, besides the obvious war already mentioned.

edit on 15/6/2012 by Dragonfly79 because: (no reason given)

Owes you!! are you # serious, You owe the German scientists that you got the technology from. and besides America has spent the last 60 years trying to ensure that NO other country had a space program, if they did they were classed as rogue.

Originally posted by Southern Guardian
I was really hoping that Voyager would catch up with Pluto at some point... ah well this is a human achievement to celebrate.

Actually, Voyager 1 was suppose to do a flyby of Pluto originally, But a year before it got to Saturn, Pioneer 11 had detected thick gases on Saturn's moon Titan. JPL decided to have Voyager do a flyby of Titan instead. That trajectory took it out of the solar plane and away from Pluto.

What if it's sitting on some aliens desk as a paper weight right now ??

Always have been amazed by the Voyager twins. It's truly something that we can receive signals from 11 billion miles away, it's unbelievable. With the technology that we have today, we could probably have a live webcam. Look at all the technology in an iphone. Voyager easily could come into contact with an Alien spaceship. One day it might send back some images of their craft while it's approaching. Hopefully, they would load Voyager into their ship in order to study it. I would guess that it's very likely that one of them has already sent back strange images that have not been released to the public. That long out there and no UFO's? Yeah right. ~$heopleNation

Latest image data received from Voyager 2. Apparently it has been loaded aboard for study. ~$heopleNation

Originally posted by rival
Oh great....mankind's greatest achievement....we're a bunch of galaxial litterbugs.

...hope we don't get a ticket

I'm almost certain you meant this as a joke, because the concept of humanity polluting space is the equivalent to a single plankter pissing into an ocean the size of the Milky Way galaxy.

HERE IS A QUESTION....
THEY show on a picture of the Galaxy with the extent of a signals mark on it, right?

Then they tell you after all these years, that the Voyager 1 reached the edge of interstellar.

NOTE: The Voyager 1, built by Nasa and launched in 1977 has spent the last 35 years steadily increasing its distance from Earth, and is now now 17,970,000,000km - or 11,100,000,000miles - away, travelling at 10km a second.

Then they show you a PICTURE of the GALAXY FROM A TOP VIEW, that seems to have been TAKEN by some type of camera or telescope, that is many times further away then Earths position to the edge of the Galaxy, and that seems to have been taken from A DISTANCE GREATER THEN THE VOYAGER 1 HAS TRAVELED!!!!

SO, with that in mind, (and hopefully I articulated correctly ), then ALL those pictures of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, from side views, top views, and bottom views, that you find all over the internet, was taken by what device at what distance?

And if those pictures from FAR AWAY SPACE are REAL, then it is obvious that the MYSTERY DEVICE which took those pictures, is the first man made object that has traveled the furthest, and further then Voyager 1.

Now ask yourself, "Are the pictures of our Galaxy, that NASA shows us, REAL?" Because they can't be, especially if they are shown to be take as far away as they are. SOOOOO, What are your thoughts?

Originally posted by Krumm
HERE IS A QUESTION....
THEY show on a picture of the Galaxy with the extent of a signals mark on it, right?

Then they tell you after all these years, that the Voyager 1 reached the edge of interstellar.

NOTE: The Voyager 1, built by Nasa and launched in 1977 has spent the last 35 years steadily increasing its distance from Earth, and is now now 17,970,000,000km - or 11,100,000,000miles - away, travelling at 10km a second.

Then they show you a PICTURE of the GALAXY FROM A TOP VIEW, that seems to have been TAKEN by some type of camera or telescope, that is many times further away then Earths position to the edge of the Galaxy, and that seems to have been taken from A DISTANCE GREATER THEN THE VOYAGER 1 HAS TRAVELED!!!!

SO, with that in mind, (and hopefully I articulated correctly ), then ALL those pictures of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, from side views, top views, and bottom views, that you find all over the internet, was taken by what device at what distance?

And if those pictures from FAR AWAY SPACE are REAL, then it is obvious that the MYSTERY DEVICE which took those pictures, is the first man made object that has traveled the furthest, and further then Voyager 1.

Now ask yourself, "Are the pictures of our Galaxy, that NASA shows us, REAL?" Because they can't be, especially if they are shown to be take as far away as they are. SOOOOO, What are your thoughts?

That's a good god dammed question, and now I'm aggravated.

Humanity escapes the solar system

I didn't realize human beings were machines. It's a good accomplishment but that's about it. We are not interstellar species now or anything don't get too excited. We put a machine in space traveling very fast, of course it's going to leave the solar system eventually. But humans wont be able to for atleast another 200 years.