THE Voyager 1 spacecraft leaves our solar system this week — and heads out into infinity and beyond.
The unmanned U.S. vessel, launched 35 years ago to explore space, is currently 11.2 billion miles from Earth.
But it could carry on wandering the galaxies for billions of years unless it hits something and disintegrates — or is intercepted by aliens.
Once Voyager 1 leaves our solar system it will have to cover an immense distance before it comes anywhere near another planet.
In about 40,000 years it should be within 9.3 trillion miles of a star known as AC+79 3888.

I just never knew it was so bloody big!

it will take it 18000 years to reach nearest star

why not just send a ship out there that is already moving at an incredible rate of speed. LIke take off speed for one of these isnt it around 20k MPH at some points??

Why wouldnt we send a smallish unmanned vehicle with propulsion out of our universe and into wherever towards planets or stars so it gets there quicker. We should also have cameras and shit on it so it can broadcast what happens when it scoots through the reaches of our galaxy and slips through a black hole or when it comes up to a planet or somethnig. Cmon SCIENTISTS be smarter.

 

Originally Posted by Bawsten

why not just send a ship out there that is already moving at an incredible rate of speed. LIke take off speed for one of these isnt it around 20k MPH at some points??

Why wouldnt we send a smallish unmanned vehicle with propulsion out of our universe and into wherever towards planets or stars so it gets there quicker. We should also have cameras and shit on it so it can broadcast what happens when it scoots through the reaches of our galaxy and slips through a black hole or when it comes up to a planet or somethnig. Cmon SCIENTISTS be smarter.

The Voyager primary mission was completed in 1989, with the close flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2. The Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is a mission extension, which began when the two spacecraft had already been in flight for over 12 years.

Both spacecraft also have adequate electrical power and attitude control propellant to continue operating until around 2025, after which there may not be available electrical power to support science instrument operation. At that time, science data return and spacecraft operations will cease.

I think Voyager is going something like 50-60k MPH right now. But ya, it isnt squat.


*EDIT:

I looked it up. It's going nearly 40,000 MPH They could have sling shotted around Jupiter and bumped the speed but passed on the option to take a safer route.

 

Originally Posted by Milo

I am just hoping no one finds it and traces it back to origin point or we could be FOOKED.

doubt any aliens are going to be interested in canada, relax

Ok so how many years tell we hit another solar system? at 40,000 mph.. Shits crazy
Am I the only one that kinda gets Angry/depressed that you don't get to know shit. We look at
a ant that covers a small area of ground It's entire life .. We are just like that ant that all he sees is 1 foot of dirt and then dies.. us seeing the entire earth and our galaxy is like a ant seeing one inch of dirt ; ( What if there are millions of civilizations out there, what if one knows the truth? or maybe we where created by a infinite being void of time and we are all their is besides supernatural beings. You can never find the answer , and if you die and there's nothing you will never know , but maybe future humans will

 

Originally Posted by deadeyehank

i suck at the physics... but doesnt it get faster and faster in space?

im sure i remember some shit about that. but i was prety high during school

No, you were def. high that day.

When i saw the op i was sure there would be some amazing photoshops but no. What a disappointment

 

Originally Posted by deadeyehank

i suck at the physics... but doesnt it get faster and faster in space?

im sure i remember some shit about that. but i was prety high during school

if it got "faster and faster" wouldn't it eventually be going faster than the speed of light? and if it turned around wouldn't we see it before it even existed?

 

Originally Posted by Milo

I am just hoping no one finds it and traces it back to origin point or we could be FOOKED.

the scientific term is "space-fucked".

if we were going to be found it'd be because of the radio signals we started sending about 100 years ago. we've informed only a few potential aliens so far.

you know what fucking trips me out?

like they say space just goes on forever...i mean how the fuck can it just go on forever? that doesnt seem possible...

but then again, it can't just fucking stop somewhere, that doesnt seem possible either...

what the fuck

 

Originally Posted by Hank H1LL

lol yes

clearly we don't have to worry that all the aliens out there will beam down, rape our women, and enslave us all, if we can ponder the question. there's life out there even dumber than us, as hard as it is to imagine. I'm more worried about the life/power of something that's been collectively conscious for a billion years... they'd be some hard motherfuckers, not so worried about baddies intercepting their golden records

lol!

Ya, imagine a life force a billion years ahead of us or mayve even 5 billion. Hell it doesnt matter, in a million years we would be sick hi tech if we made it. Anyway these life forms would be like the Q on star trek. Omnipotent and god like. We could evolve to become gods someday and then the life and universes we create will wonder who god was and it will just be us dumb ass earthlings

said arthur c. clark, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

if a dying man told you 45 lbs of gold was buried near his childhood home, a location now directly beneath the largest ant hill in the world, one that you'd never encountered before, would you pass out of respect for the ants' civilization?

do the termites respect the life of the tree?

let's hope we drive this planet to E before they get here.

 

Originally Posted by Hank H1LL

lol yes

clearly we don't have to worry that all the aliens out there will beam down, rape our women, and enslave us all, if we can ponder the question. there's life out there even dumber than us, as hard as it is to imagine. I'm more worried about the life/power of something that's been collectively conscious for a billion years... they'd be some hard motherfuckers, not so worried about baddies intercepting their golden records

and to think I was just worried about them taking our jobs

 

Originally Posted by Believer82

Ok so how many years tell we hit another solar system? at 40,000 mph.. Shits crazy
Am I the only one that kinda gets Angry/depressed that you don't get to know shit. We look at
a ant that covers a small area of ground It's entire life .. We are just like that ant that all he sees is 1 foot of dirt and then dies.. us seeing the entire earth and our galaxy is like a ant seeing one inch of dirt ; ( What if there are millions of civilizations out there, what if one knows the truth? or maybe we where created by a infinite being void of time and we are all their is besides supernatural beings. You can never find the answer , and if you die and there's nothing you will never know , but maybe future humans will

It will hit another system in in around 80,000 years. But if it misses the target it will prob be another 80,000 years until it gets near another. Hell maybe it will thread the needle and not bump into a system for a few million years.

Odds of ever being found are slim. It will prob get caught up by a planet or a star and vaporize. or dive into a gas planet like jupiter.