Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after 'poke' from Earth(cnn.com)
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Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after 'poke' from Earth
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-poke-scn/index.html
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It would be an awesome sci-fi plot: voyager 1 is captured by an alien race. Goes silent for a while they figure out how to boot it up. Then it starts transmitting the instructions to build a wormhole . Lone engineer who held out hope discovers the signal after the project was mothballed. (sorry this bit stolen from Contact). Or instructions for a hyperdrive.
That's kind of the plot of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
if the movie contact was made today unfortunately, the signal would have been intercepted by a teenager who the builds the machine to the alien spec in his bedroom with his best buddy from school
That's just an Explorers remake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_(film)
unfortunately that shoots down my "today in Hollywood" theory
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"A for Andromeda" - Fred Hoyle (Sort of. Without the spacecraft.))
V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve…
Must... Find... Creator.
Unrelated, but when I first saw it as a kid I loved it. Then I saw it as an adult and my wife ruined it when she said that the enterprise was entering a sphincter.
Game over .
Unrelated, but when I first saw it as a kid I loved it. Then I saw it as an adult and my wife ruined it when she said that the enterprise was entering a sphincter.
Game over .
so you decided to ruin it for the rest of us? :)
You want the Borg? That's how we get the Borg.
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Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914
Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914
Is the hardware much more robust than modern hardware? One would assume it was more primitive. Yet it survives beyond the lifespan expected of modern components even in the harsh environment it is located, for decades.
More primitive equipment generally is much more robust than modern hardware, no?
Such cool work. Imagine issuing debug commands into your Prod system, waiting 40 hours for an unintelligible reply, then one keen engineer notices a pattern and is able to extract something meaningful from it. It's amazing the expertise on these systems continues to develop and thrive.