NASA's Voyager 1 detects faint, persistent hum beyond our solar system

originally posted by: ZeussusZ
a reply to: 727Sky

I don't think captain Kirk was ever going faster than light. I think the enterprise warped space.
Just saying

Could that possibly be why it's called warp drive?

originally posted by: flyonthewall
a reply to: ZeussusZ

I think Captain Kirk was setting in a chair on a set inside of a studio. Just saying.

Some sources claim that his real name is actually William Shatner. The nerve!

a reply to: 727Sky

... the more I see I fall towards the idea the universe is ruled by plasma..

conversely, the more brain wrinkles i get, over-the-decades,
i tend to meld or mesh ideas/concepts....

like the hum sound... being the collective consciousness at work on a barely recognized level ---or perhaps --- the hum is the audible drone of the multitudes-in-heaven chanting the Mantra OM

a reply to: 727Sky

I saw this show, it was called Stargate Universe. Shame it was cancelled.

originally posted by: Trueman

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: 727Sky

What is a talking "TED"?

It's a cute fluffy bear that talks when you push his tummy.

And loves BBC.

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: 727Sky

What is a talking "TED"?

It’s where nerds go talk to hipsters and they all feel smarter from it.

As far as the hum, I’ve heard that sound in space movies. It’s never a good omen.

Well, hopefully they realized it is not a vacuum out there, because there is energy particles hitting the voyager. all particles, even ions, have mass. They need to alter the science they teach once they evaluate reality now that they have seen what is out there. Even itsy bitsy ionic sized particles can conglomerate into matter if they combine under the right conditions.

It has been out there so long it is becoming sentient but is off its diodes because of the isolation. Because of the low clock speed of its computer, it’s output needs sped up to understand it. It is slowly humming to itself the song ‘Daisy Bell’ which it learned from another computer during the construction of the two Voyager probes.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
I’m half crazy, all for the love of you......

This is the computer it learned the song from.

Im guessing it sounds like: Oooooooom, or Auuuuum

Perhaps the Universe has tinnitus?

a reply to: 727Sky

The voyager probe launched in 1977 is just about 15 billion+ miles away and still sending info for us to analyze (quite amazing in itself). Scientist say our solar system boundary is roughly around the 11 billion mile mark....

Scientists say lots of things, and then other scientists come along and say something different.

If scientists can't even agree on the exact criteria that specifically defines what constitutes the edge of our Solar System, then how could we truly know where it is located.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

So Voyager hums because it doesn't know the words …...

originally posted by: Silcone Synapse
You know when you put your phone too close to a loud speaker and it starts to make an interference hum?

Thats whats happening to Voyager as it gets closer to the reality projector.

Don't worry its completley normal.

I had a power supply for a phono pre amp, that when it was next to one of my speakers, like 10-12" away, produced sound from the tweeter..the speaker was not even hooked up. Thought I was going crazy, tracking down the source..took me awhile to figure it out.

a reply to: 727Sky

I once heard a TED talk about going faster than the speed of light where the presenter said as soon as Captain Kirk said "engage" everyone would die due to, in the vacuum of space, even one molecule of hydrogen per cubit centimeter would be enough to turn your body into something that looked like someone was shot with 1,000,000 shot guns in less than a second .. Force field or no go IMO !

This isn't true since with warp drive you don't actually travel through space. You "warp" space and pull your destination to you.

Seems like someone...perhaps Hindus or some religion, said this many many moons ago

Long before the ability to capture/measure sound even

Very interesting

a reply to: firerescue

So Voyager hums because it doesn't know the words

What do you expect? It has less than 70 kilobytes of memory.

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: firerescue

So Voyager hums because it doesn't know the words

What do you expect? It has less than 70 kilobytes of memory.

Excellent!

originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: 727Sky

I saw this show, it was called Stargate Universe. Shame it was cancelled.

Good TV to some, rubbish to others. It should never have been made at the expense of Atlantis.

originally posted by: Sakrateri
That hum is the sound of the servers that are running the simulation.

Lets just hope they have plenty of cooling.

Maybe the hum is coil whine from the GPU that's doing all of the rendering?

a reply to: AtomicKangaroo

Yeah yeah my daughter introduced me to simulation theory and the odds of it being true. I dismissed it off hand. Not because I don't believe it or think its possible (Even likely)... but the implications are just too much to consider