Between The Wheels

Between The Wheels => Technology and Science => Topic started by: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 05:37:29 PM

Title: Voyager 2
Post by: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 05:37:29 PM
I hope that there isn't another thread for this from days gone by. This makes me very sad. I'm not sure why as it's only another man-made device of which we have plenty.

Voyager 2: Nasa loses contact with probe after sending wrong command https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66371569

But farewell, and good luck out there, after we're all just a memory chip in some other device.
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: Fishy on August 01, 2023, 05:39:42 PM
It resets itself in October so all might not be lost
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: pxr5 on August 01, 2023, 08:05:40 PM
'Tis alive - phew:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66371569
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 08:52:06 PM
I wonder why this got to me so much. Might be a loneliness thing. Something put together by man being so far from home. I suppose its mission goes on for eternity.
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: Thenop on August 01, 2023, 08:57:35 PM
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 08:52:06 PMI wonder why this got to me so much. Might be a loneliness thing. Something put together by man being so far from home. I suppose its mission goes on for eternity.

You are starting to sound like Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball.
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 10:30:45 PM
Quote from: Thenop on August 01, 2023, 08:57:35 PM
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 08:52:06 PMI wonder why this got to me so much. Might be a loneliness thing. Something put together by man being so far from home. I suppose its mission goes on for eternity.

You are starting to sound like Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball.

Willlssssooooon! 😂

Leave me alone you strange man who enjoys cycling in a country with no hills. 😉
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: Slim on August 02, 2023, 09:39:44 AM
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 08:52:06 PMI wonder why this got to me so much. Might be a loneliness thing. Something put together by man being so far from home. I suppose its mission goes on for eternity.
Not eternity. Its atoms will decay and there'll be nothing left one day. As we discussed in the Voyager 1 thread.

Perhaps "one day" is the wrong turn of phrase there. More like an unending night.
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: The Picnic Wasp on August 02, 2023, 01:48:52 PM
Quote from: Slim on August 02, 2023, 09:39:44 AM
Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on August 01, 2023, 08:52:06 PMI wonder why this got to me so much. Might be a loneliness thing. Something put together by man being so far from home. I suppose its mission goes on for eternity.
Not eternity. Its atoms will decay and there'll be nothing left one day. As we discussed in the Voyager 1 thread.

Perhaps "one day" is the wrong turn of phrase there. More like an unending night.

Oh yes, I remember that piece you posted. I'd never read anything like that before then. That everything would one "day" be nothing. Not a concept that any human could possibly understand. I suppose all we are is an existence in solid, liquid and gas. I think this is where my illogical belief stems from. An eternal existence bringing something from nothing with an inherent reason of good over bad. The sky fairy that you describe.
Title: Re: Voyager 2
Post by: The Picnic Wasp on August 05, 2023, 11:33:07 AM
Phew! It heard a louder shout and is now pointing back correctly.