It's Back! Voyager Is Making Sense Again After Months of Gibberish
The notion of 'giving ourselves away' to potentially hostile aliens by Voyager is whimsicalin the extreme to say the least.
Any civilsation capable of intercepting it would be able work out its origin via its trajectory in a trice and the notion that we are somehow hidden by the vastness of space is utterly unrealistic given the vast amounts of RF energy we've been spreading about the galaxy this last century and more - Voyager is currently only a few light hours distant but our detectable RF energy front is at least 60 light years away and extending spherically what? thousands of times faster than the infinitessinmaly small single point-in-space Voyager which is crawling along in a single direction. We're lit up in space like a vast radio beacon to any civilisation capable of detecting radio energy to a level only as advanced as ours is today, let alone one hundreds of years more advanced. Our RF output since the cold war is thought to remain detectable out to hundreds of light years (given time for it to actually get that distant)
We have certainly broadcast our existence and location to a readily detectable level over some 60 light years distance in all directions, internet figures for number of stars by range varly wildly but 600 seems about the consensus for within 60LY and anything from 13,000 to 60,000 within 100LY, and same again for 100-200.
We're lit up like a christmas tree for anyone inside our RF propagation sphere who cares to look.
Any civilsation capable of intercepting it would be able work out its origin via its trajectory in a trice and the notion that we are somehow hidden by the vastness of space is utterly unrealistic given the vast amounts of RF energy we've been spreading about the galaxy this last century and more - Voyager is currently only a few light hours distant but our detectable RF energy front is at least 60 light years away and extending spherically what? thousands of times faster than the infinitessinmaly small single point-in-space Voyager which is crawling along in a single direction. We're lit up in space like a vast radio beacon to any civilisation capable of detecting radio energy to a level only as advanced as ours is today, let alone one hundreds of years more advanced. Our RF output since the cold war is thought to remain detectable out to hundreds of light years (given time for it to actually get that distant)
We have certainly broadcast our existence and location to a readily detectable level over some 60 light years distance in all directions, internet figures for number of stars by range varly wildly but 600 seems about the consensus for within 60LY and anything from 13,000 to 60,000 within 100LY, and same again for 100-200.
We're lit up like a christmas tree for anyone inside our RF propagation sphere who cares to look.
Last edited by meleagertoo; 30th Apr 2024 at 12:28.
... Assuming someone is there to hear it.
But that's for another thread.
But that's for another thread.
Voyager 2 probably started spouting gibberish because part of one of its chips was hit by a cosmic ray/particle of some sort. Mind you, integrated silicon chips were much bigger then, nothing as tiny as what’s available on microcircuits now, so if they had a modern chip with far more condensed into a smaller area, that single incident could have trashed everything not just a small part of the chip..
Newer is not always better, and that should be included in future plans. That and redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
They recovered operations by slowly shifting the work load to other chips on board which are still functioning.
Earth’s magnetosphere/the van Allen belt protects life on earth by diverting most of these cosmic particles towards the poles, where they produce the aurora borealis.
If you hop on a spaceship to Mars, you leave much of this convenient protective layer behind, so will be subject to much more because Mars doesn’t have anything similar.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/pl...torms-at-mars/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_of_Mars
Newer is not always better, and that should be included in future plans. That and redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
They recovered operations by slowly shifting the work load to other chips on board which are still functioning.
Earth’s magnetosphere/the van Allen belt protects life on earth by diverting most of these cosmic particles towards the poles, where they produce the aurora borealis.
If you hop on a spaceship to Mars, you leave much of this convenient protective layer behind, so will be subject to much more because Mars doesn’t have anything similar.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/pl...torms-at-mars/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_of_Mars
