Voyager 1

Posted on September 13, 2013 by KG

‘PASADENA, Calif. — By today’s standards, the spacecraft’s technology is laughable: it carries an 8-track tape recorder and computers with one-240,000th the memory of a low-end iPhone. When it left Earth 36 years ago, it was designed as a four-year mission to Saturn…’
And now it’s voyaging beyond the solar system. What a stunning achievement!

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12 Responses to Voyager 1

  1. The Gantt Guy says:
    September 13, 2013 at 20:33

    Thank the muzzies for inventing NASA. Or algebra. Or space, or some shit.

  2. KG says:
    September 13, 2013 at 21:02

    Kevin Rudd celebrates his victory
    http://youtu.be/NA4cpfgcSgI

  3. Findalis says:
    September 14, 2013 at 00:39

    One doesn’t see a Russian, Chinese or Iranian satellite leaving the solar system any time soon. Do we?

  4. Contempt says:
    September 15, 2013 at 04:46

    @The Gantt Guy – Considering that the once magnificent NASA has a new mission impossible to save Africa, decreed by oBowa…..

    The real NASA was a rare diamond in the life of Man. To the Moon. To forever. I remember when the Voyager mission lifted off on its incredible trip. Big regret – not making a Florida trip to see a manned flight blast off.

  5. Mathew says:
    September 15, 2013 at 08:37

    Indeed KG, it may not have the memory of an old iphone and it can’t tweet pics of your cut face and genetalia, however does anyone else have the money to send a wretched iphone out into space and find us a new home free of liberals.

    On a side note, i heard the other day there’s some European fellow who’s planning a one-way trip to Mars to colonize the place, sometimes in the next 15 years. If it wasn’t a one-way trip, i’d strongly consider it. I know it’s unlikely, but what if you turn up on Mars in 2030 and find liberals under the surface, waiting with taxes and gun/phaser control. And you can’t leave!

  6. MvL says:
    September 15, 2013 at 09:07

    ” send a wretched iphone out into space and find us a new home free of liberals.”

    We can but dream.
    Riveting reading on this subject from Blogger, and sometimes commenter here, Francis Porretto.
    http://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/615
    Also available from Amazon.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif
    Third volume of the trilogy coming soon. :grin:

    • KG says:
      September 15, 2013 at 09:18

      I think I’d go anyway, Mathew. Just for the ride. :grin:

      I’ve enjoyed Francis’ books, MvL. Especially “Chosen One”.

  7. Darin says:
    September 15, 2013 at 11:07

    They don’t build them like they used to :cool: My dad’s job was driving mainframe computers for Nasa back then,infact they recieved,stored on mag tape and printed nearly all the ground telemetry for both Vikings.

    There once was a group of scientists who wanted to build a big computer.A computer so big it would have to be built in Earth orbit.

    Construction started and many years later it was finally complete and the scientists could not wait to try the new machine out.

    They started by asking it to solve Pi to 6,000 places,two seconds later the answer came back.

    Then they asked it to solve and map the entire human and animal genome.Ten minutes later the answer came back.

    Wow! They were excited that after all these years it finally worked,so they asked it one more question-Is there a God?

    The giant machine went dark and then suddenly minutes later finally the screen flickered to life with an answer,containing just three words-

    THERE IS NOW. :shock: :mrgreen: