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In November 2026, A Human-Made Object Will Reach A Light-Day From Earth For First Time In History (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] 53 points 1 year ago

still thinks has good enough ping to join the game

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Hmm, what is the escape velocity of our solar system? Are the Voyagers going to fall back toward us some day?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Depends in where you think the edge of the solar system is. If you think the edge of the solar system is where the Sun no longer has any gravitational pull, and another star's gravity takes over, then its going to take the voyagers another 40,000 years to escape our solar system.

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    • [+] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Someone stated that the communication speed is currently about 160 bits per second, so 20 bytes per second.

    Voyager is now 1 light day away, so the signal is 86400 seconds long, since radio waves travel at the speed of light. The signal can then fit a backup of 1.7 megabytes.

    20 bytes x 86400 seconds = 1.7 Mb (SI units)

    This is enough to fit the entire memory bank of 26 Commodore 64s in a one way trip from the Earth to Voyager. If Voyager then returns the signal, you can simply double this.

    So about 2 floppy discs. πŸ’Ύ πŸ’Ύ

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    • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    No man-made object has generated so many sci-pop headlines over the years!

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The first besides that manhole cover from the underground nuclear test, right?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    that's exactly what I was going to bring up.

    not one, but TWO.

    the original cover was such a significant point of research that they not only reconstructed a whole new experiment around it, but improved upon it to make it go faster.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Do you want V'ger? Cause this is how you get V'ger.

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