Secret signals from distant probe Has Voyager 2 spacecraft been hijacked by aliens? With a golden record on board, it left the Earth 33 years ago.
NASA installed the 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.
But now the Voyager 2 spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!
The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?
Flashback
1977: NASA fired the unmanned probe, weighing 722kg, into space. It contains instruments, transmitters and the golden record on which are stored people’s voices, nature noises (such as waves and birds) and 90 minutes of music, including Mozart and Beethoven.
It has flown past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – and is now heading off into infinity. Its signal – which takes 13 hours to reach the Earth – has not been broken off.
2010: The signal changed for the first time on April 22. A technical error from the distant transmitter? No scientific data has been sent back since.
Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf (54, ‘UFOs – They Are Still Flying’) said: “It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth…”

 

Originally Posted by Glo4m

so which is it? there or here?

LOL

 

Originally Posted by Oh Rale

LOL

obv

interesting

I can't imagine that a government made device might have a bug once it gets 8 billion miles away.

Too bad they sent this probe off in the '70's. This 'golden' record has no '80's hair bands (G'n'R, KISS, Motley Crue, Poison, etc, etc).

If anything is ever discovered by this probe, it will be the best project to date. If nothing is ever discovered by the probe, then it will be the biggest waste of tax dollars.

If aliens actually greeted us with "sup" I'd probably die from laughter.

 

Originally Posted by Lenny

It would be awfully polite of aliens in our outer solar system (kuiper belt or we) to find and hijack a probe to let us know they are there rather than just proceed to earth.

Seems much more probable that the transmitter has either been damaged or reprogrammed by someone on earth.

Curse you and your rational thinking!

i like how they said hello in 55 different earth languages...because if aliens did exist, they would know any language at all that we speak.

i hope aliens are real! and i hope they're nice!

 

Originally Posted by Hecklerz

If anything is ever discovered by this probe, it will be the best project to date. If nothing is ever discovered by the probe, then it will be the biggest waste of tax dollars.

Voyager 2 is already one of the most successful missions in history, getting images and data on all four gas giants + moon systems. Anything we get from here on out is icing on the cake.

The cost of both Voyager 1 + 2 for the lifetime of their missions is ~ 900 million. (1972-present)

We spend that in Iraq in a day.

nah, i like to think that aliens have macintosh.

but the fact that they can change the programming means they must be at least on pace with us technologically....or it took them 32 years to figure out how to change something....so they could be wayyy behind

 

Originally Posted by Lenny

 

Originally Posted by Hecklerz

If anything is ever discovered by this probe, it will be the best project to date. If nothing is ever discovered by the probe, then it will be the biggest waste of tax dollars.

Voyager 2 is already one of the most successful missions in history, getting images and data on all four gas giants + moon systems. Anything we get from here on out is icing on the cake.

The cost of both Voyager 1 + 2 for the lifetime of their missions is ~ 900 million. (1972-present)

We spend that in Iraq in a day.

The biggest problem with the NASA-haters is their lack of comprehension of what "spinoff technology" is.

It is almost UNFATHOMABLE how huge of a chunk of all of Earth's current modern technologies are a result of spinoff technology from NASA projects.

There are so many modern technologies in the medical field, and in the consumer market of just everyday electronic things and technologies that would not yet exist if it weren't for being accidentally discovered how to make so many of these things as an accidental side-effect result of the insanely difficult/advanced/complex technological work/research/designing that NASA workers do whilst working on their projects, aka "spinoff technology" as a side-effect result of their projects.

People don't seem to understand this, and it's very VERY very very sad that they don't, cuz it's EXTREMELY extremely important to the technological progress of the human race.

 

Originally Posted by bfactor

They also almost certainly have never visited us.

Are you nuts how else would they have planted us on Earth to be their slave race to mine gooooold??? but no seriously I think they have been here atleast a long time ago and taught some of the ancient civilizations a thing or two.

so you know how the president gets to look at all the top secret files of the US? i think we nominate someone from OT to become president and then they can violate the code and share all they know with us!!!!!

 

Originally Posted by Niceguy

You sound like a nut.

However upon coming to Vegas my father was stationed at area 51 for 2 years and won't tell me a thing about it. Not a single thing. He's a huge talker as well. So /shrug.

alcohol? truth serum? have you tried any of that?