I was a kid when the Voyagers were making their "Grand Tour" and how I would be so excited to get the National Geographic magazines with all the pictures.
@nicholashylton6857
9 ай бұрын
I read those too! (I might have a copy in a box somewhere.)
@skullpoker69
9 ай бұрын
NEPTUNE ALL NIGHT!!! PBS is king
@petevenuti7355
9 ай бұрын
Astronomy magazine too
@MarcusHouse
9 ай бұрын
I'm fascinated by the SETI talking to Whales story. I think we could learn a lot if we could communicate effectively with some of the smartest species on Earth.
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
Agreed, it's a great opportunity.
@skullpoker69
9 ай бұрын
You mean Mice? "So long and thanks for all the fish." is the greatest break-up line in human history, fyi.
@physicswcccd
9 ай бұрын
The description of the limited conversation with a whale reminds me of the times me and my dogs howl together. The whale (slowed down) even sounded like them.
@dr.swaster8763
9 ай бұрын
If we can’t figure out how to communicate with equivalent species on our own planet, how can we ever expect to speak to aliens.
@skullpoker69
9 ай бұрын
@aregeebee201 so we're basing communication on plankton? 3PO was right. We're doomed
@elitoro3193
9 ай бұрын
When I worked at JPL I recall reading that the Voyager instrument computer packages had redundant backup systems. It will be interesting to know how often the FDS #2 and the TMU #2 were used in the past. Also, the power output from the RTGs has been reduced to try and prolong the flight for as long as possible... maybe boost the power to the thermal blanket to see if the extra warmth will help the FDS recover.
@SedatKPunkt
9 ай бұрын
4:11 *I love your optimism…!* *_AND I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL LIKE …_* *_FOR ONLY BEING TO "EXPERIENCE" THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF SPACEL TRAVEL & EXPLORATION_* *_O N L Y I N Y O U R F A N T A S Y…and SciFi-Literature_* *Maybe the thought of all the clips and content you've created becoming historic documents in the future of mankind is comforting…!* ➔ *_"They"…our descendents…will look at them in order to understand the past_* ➔ *_and research humanity's drive & incentive to explore the unknown!_*
@rodylermglez
9 ай бұрын
lol that last Vyger reference 😅
@unclvinny
9 ай бұрын
Whew, that nebula photo is a corker!
@bitbucketcynic
9 ай бұрын
The RTGs on the Voyagers only have a few good years left in them before they can't power anything on the spacecraft.
@friedhelmmunker7284
9 ай бұрын
Voyager 1 computer, older than Commodore 64. 😉
@eightsprites
9 ай бұрын
But is it as good… they should have put a SID chip on voyager.. think of voyager floating in space playing chip music to entertain itself.
@stoffls
9 ай бұрын
I am totally with you. I always had a soft spot for the Voyagers and it breaks my heart that they are coming to an end of their scientific mission. But then I rejoice, they exceeded their planned life by decades and are still sending information after 46 years. I just hope they make it to 50.
@zenithperigee7442
9 ай бұрын
@stoffls, I thought I posted my comment.🤔People can look at real-time data just search "Mission Status Voyager". IIRC V2 actually launched before V1 and V1 is some ~15 B miles (24 B km) away which even after ~46 yrs that's still just a fraction of a single light year & yet we talk about objects in our own solar system being hundreds/thousands of light years away just as we are believed to be situated around 26,000 LYs from the center of our galaxy so that's ~153 quadrillion miles (244.8 quadrillion km) and V1/V2 have only traveled about 13.5 BILLION miles (21.6 B km) avg between the two. So the center of our galaxy is about 12,000 times that or the equivalent of ~523 MILLION years away at the avg speed of those vehicles traveling ~35K-40K mph (~56K-64K km/h) We know they can use planetary gravity to "sling-shot" spacecraft to higher speeds but that also takes more time. We really need better systems of propulsion if we want to make more meaningful exploration of space both manned/unmanned. Frankly, I was a bit surprised with the talk of V1/V2 being older tech, slowly depleting power etc., that they haven't launched new probes with our more advanced tech. I know they have several spacecraft/telescopes out there and though they're reported to have seen much further than our spacecraft have been, it'd be best to actually send the physical spacecraft to investigate phenomenon up close.
@ElihuWho
9 ай бұрын
Voyage down? 1's & o's? Is this the origin of Star Trek: The motion picture?
@oberonpanopticon
9 ай бұрын
Not to mention the talking to whales
@oldyoungArt
9 ай бұрын
You mean Vegar😄
@rodClark717
9 ай бұрын
Life imitates art, very astute
@mhult5873
9 ай бұрын
@@oldyoungArt Vger (Voyager 6) :)
@slo3337
9 ай бұрын
Our only hope lies in the one man who lays with many women. William Shatner.
@singletona082
9 ай бұрын
'Voyager 1 sending back a repeating string of jibberish' Welp. I've got a movie script idea.
@oberonpanopticon
9 ай бұрын
Might be a bit late for that!
@Flesh_Wizard
9 ай бұрын
Sounds like the start of a cosmic horror
@richardaitkenhead
9 ай бұрын
Voyager are legends and will always be remembered the fact they are still running is amazing, if everything was made so well today it would be amazing my mum had a tumble dryer for 32 years worked fine just the faded colour didn't match her new kitchen new one lasted 3 years lol
@MichaelWinter-ss6lx
9 ай бұрын
Thats the norm and thats evil. Looks like their selling out the planet. 🚀🏴☠️🎸
@leecowell8165
9 ай бұрын
I hear you. We had a dryer that lasted over 25 years. Harvest Gold before it started rusting. I replaced the bearings that supported the drum and the belt a coupla times. When we sold the place it had to stay there or we'd still probably have it!
@nevers0l044
9 ай бұрын
Let’s say hypothetically something actually came across voyager 1, I wonder if they tried to communicate back what that would look like…imagine the binary code says “is this yours?” Haha 😂
@FHT1883
9 ай бұрын
"we've been trying to contact you about your Space Probe's extended warranty"
@ChemEDan
9 ай бұрын
@@FHT1883 #contact
@ARWest-bp4yb
9 ай бұрын
@@FHT1883 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@kevinjekyll1521
9 ай бұрын
This was always coming, nothing lasts forever, but the wealth of information we have gathered from these explorers, has made us more self aware, what an awesome achievement, a legacy we can all be proud of. There would have been countless people involved in this, I salute them all. Thanks for the video.
@JamieOrlando
9 ай бұрын
I'm still awed by the images of Neptune from Voyager 2. It will certainly be a sad day when they finally pull the plug on these amazing spacecraft. To think what they have done with their limited technology is amazing.
@YeenMage
9 ай бұрын
Maybe Voyager 1 is undergoing Windows Update. 🤣 Just ask Windows for warranty if it doesn't get fixed. 🤣
@eyemallears2647
9 ай бұрын
Voyager is the best example of humanity. Thank you to everyone involved.
@DaveWhiteInYoFace
9 ай бұрын
I appreciate you and the work you do Mr. Cain. 🌎 💫
@notmadeofpeople4935
9 ай бұрын
We need to send a mission to fix and uplift Voyager with sentient A.I. we could name it... I dunno... VGER?
@zhubajie6940
9 ай бұрын
Growing up in the Cape Canaveral area, I always had a soft spot for the Voyagers (which were sent in reverse order first Voyager 2 then 1) just shy of my 17th birthday (As I recall, I skipped school that day for Voyager 1 but not 2) so I was able to drive on my own to go watch them in Titusville. I never dreamed they would last this long.
@-.Cloudrixx.-
9 ай бұрын
Hey im 12 years(ik im young) but when i grow up i want to be an astronaut . Ik its a risk but its worth it. If not an astronaut, a researcher. You inspire me do keep it up please
@myselfandi67097
9 ай бұрын
Friggin' love your channel. I caught the IT Crowd visual, good stuff! When I was growing up in the 70's I craved stuff like this so much but information was so limited and hard to come by. What it must be like to grow up now, I can't even imagine.
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
I know what you mean. It's almost overwhelming now.
@RogerM88
9 ай бұрын
Unfortunately Webb's pictures don't give that hype appeal as with Hubble's, since they are processed from IR. That's why I'm hyped for future optical telescopes as LUVOIR.
@filonin2
9 ай бұрын
Speak for yourself. Why would that even matter? You can't see either thing with your eyes.
@BigBoaby-sg1yo
9 ай бұрын
@@filonin2yup ! It’s all BS 😂😂😂
@pgantioch8362
9 ай бұрын
Question: what remains from that “nearby” kilonova? Did it become a black hole? Another, larger neutron star? After 3-4 M years, how far away is it? Could we detect it looking for gravitational lenses?
@donerskine7935
9 ай бұрын
The trouble with gyroscopes is that you keep having to send up spacemen to pull the string.
@72bable
9 ай бұрын
Voyager 1, this is NASA. Try switching SCE to Aux.
@denijane89
9 ай бұрын
I'd say the octupuses are the real aliens but whales studies are also pretty exciting.
@MaryAnnNytowl
9 ай бұрын
Oh, your last point made is something I don't need to prepare for. I have expected the Voyagers to die for a decade, now. They have outperformed their intended lifespan by such an ASTOUNDING degree that we cannot possibly be disappointed in them, no matter how short their remaining time is, at this point! And... by what clues you gave, I can safely say you are 5 years younger than I am, LOL! So I remember all of those points in each Voyager's missions with great clarity, too, and was old enough when they first took off to have magazines (Omni is one, and one I still miss - RIP Omni) detailing their whole mission, step by step. I remember them giving the present day's dates for them crossing beyond each point over and above their planned missions, when they fully expected that the Voyager pair would now only be carrying those famous records with our information on them out to the void, and be unable to tell us anything at all. And here we are, still getting communications from them‽ Amazing!
@MrJroc58
9 ай бұрын
8:41 so if we had spaceships like Enterprise…. If the gas is 30 million Kelvin, could our space ships fly through it without melting? How do we go through space with hot and cold " stuff " out there?
@filonin2
9 ай бұрын
The gas is very thin so very little heat would transfer.
@paulwollenzein-zn1lh
6 ай бұрын
"NASA help line. How can I help you? " "Um, yeah. Hi. This is Voyager control. Um, we lost readable data from the FDS. It's just sending out ones and zeros which are Completely unintelligible. What should we do now?" Have you tried turning it off and then on? " "Yes, of course we did." "Have you checked all of the cables to see if are plugged in? The power cables? The radio cables? the modem cables? And the computer cables?" "Um, no. We haven't tried that". " Great. Try that ". And hangs up. Voyager mission control turns to the Voyager team and says, "They said to just check out All of the cable connections! And then they just hung up!". Everyone just looks around at each other looking the question of" huh??"
@hippyraverocker
9 ай бұрын
This vide is NOT sponsored by Adblock plus, firefox, sponsorskip and pi-hole...because screw KZitem's latest mega ads everywhere push!
@lukasmakarios4998
9 ай бұрын
Thank goodness, it's just a glitch! I was so worried that V-1 had fallen prey to Klingon target practice. 50 years is a long time for a space probe to be still functioning. Good luck, Voyagers! Phone home when you can. Love, Luke Earthwalker. Coma cluster: Some Clarke-tech civilisation has decided to build a bridge between their old galaxy and the new one they are colonizing. That's really neat!
@deltalima6703
9 ай бұрын
Went nova 10,000 years ago? In what reference frame?
@abrahamroloff8671
9 ай бұрын
Ours(-ish) enough. 😂
@laurachapple6795
9 ай бұрын
I always get sad when they have to shut down a successful space probe. I remember when Opportunity 'died' I actually cried about it.
@SidMajors
9 ай бұрын
Had the same with Cassini 😢
@BigBoaby-sg1yo
9 ай бұрын
@@SidMajors especially the one CGI ‘ image ‘ of Cassini with a clearly CGI image of Saturn with earth in the background 😂😂😂😂😂
@SidMajors
9 ай бұрын
@@BigBoaby-sg1yo Gatekeeping in astronomy.. Pathetic.
@hive_indicator318
9 ай бұрын
I've heard that "Good Night, Oppie" is super good. My mom said it made her cry, and she's not into space at all
@eamonia
9 ай бұрын
I'm gonna cry like a baby when their end inevitably comes. Tears of joy? Yes. Tears of remorse? Oh yeah, but either way I think we'll all share a moment of silence for our little satellites that could, and *did.*
@joaodecarvalho7012
9 ай бұрын
The Voyagers are perhaps the most important space missions of all time. Imagine the onboard computers from the 70s, operating the probes all this time. Godspeed, Voyager 1.
@davecarsley8773
9 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be wild if we just so happened to evolve on an earth where alpha centari was a red supergiant like Betelgeuse that we came to understand would "soon" (cosmologically speaking) detonate? There would be absolutely nothing we could do about it, and every generation for thousands of years would live their lives fearing it would happen during their lifetime. Makes me wonder how many civilizations of beings in our [possibly] infinite universe have had to actually live through such a reality.
@noelstarchild
9 ай бұрын
Recently read an article that class3 stars were so massive that they produced heavier neutron rich elements that continued with fusion but also produced fission and it was this that upheld the star's mass against collapse after fussion to iron and nickel etc.. Haven't worked this through yet. Suggestions anyone?
@madcow3235
9 ай бұрын
In in Star Trek voyage home that used humpback whales to communicate with an alien probe that was destroying the Earth
@SebastianWellsTL
8 ай бұрын
Whales helping us to talk to aliens you say? Sounds kind of familiar almost like the main plot of a Star Trek movie involved that. 😂
@saeedafyouni619
9 ай бұрын
Cassiopeia-A by JWST loved this episode of Space-Bites Awesome vid
@donwyattaz
9 ай бұрын
Wow, the story of the whale song communication was very interesting!
@Ruddigore
9 ай бұрын
A fascinating video as always. It's always a pleasure to log into your videos. One thing I did notice is that you stated that the half life of Fe 60 is 1.5 million years; whilst I agree that this was once its surmised half life, it was re-assessed some years ago to be 2.6 million years.
@JAGzilla-ur3lh
9 ай бұрын
In the short term, learning to communicate with whales and decipher the communication systems of other animals are probably the most important things we can do to prepare ourselves for contact with aliens. And it will help us learn to coexist with our neighbors here, which is just as important.
@booradley4237
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for referring to us as Octopuses, as opposed to Octopi. That's what we prefer 18:33
@christhorney
9 ай бұрын
for the record, plutonium 238 has a halflife of 87 years, so we are only half way through one halflife, so in 40 years its still going to have 50% of its original power output in theory, so perhaps they could make some sort of extra low power mode and keep it going for many more moons
@zapfanzapfan
9 ай бұрын
The thermocouples (turning heat flow into electricity) also degrade unfortunately.
@skessisalive
9 ай бұрын
You made me just think of something, I wonder if there are any gaseous moons out there..
@horizonbrave1533
9 ай бұрын
Fraser, if it comes down to it, can Hubble be reparied by manned mission again? We don't have the space shuttle, any longer, so how can we get up there to fix it if it came down to it?
@boda4339
9 ай бұрын
1's and 0's gibberish? It's alien code! Translate it!!!
@joelvirolainen590
9 ай бұрын
Could Hubble (or any other telescope) take a picture of Voyager 1 or 2?
@rienkhoek4169
9 ай бұрын
No, way to small unfortunately
@BigBoaby-sg1yo
9 ай бұрын
@@rienkhoek4169lol 😂 guys ! Get yourselves a girlfriend for goodness sake
@pepe6666
9 ай бұрын
hey man. i appreciate your efforts. you're like the backbone for so much in the space world. your heart is in a good place and it is appreciated
@samari6191
9 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be cool if aliens were trying to write code to send to us to communicate through Voyager. Like the msgs were actually their language somehow?
@snowballs2023
9 ай бұрын
Would it make sense to build a Voyager 3 with 2023 technology?
@EinsteinsHair
9 ай бұрын
Those two probes were sent out at that time because of planetary alignments that only occur something like every 150 years. We still send things to the outer solar system, but not on a grand tour of planets.
@zapfanzapfan
9 ай бұрын
Jupiter and Saturn line up every 20 years or so but doing flybys of them are not so relevant since we have and have had orbiters there. Sending a probe to only fly by Neptune and its moon Triton has been a suggested mission for a while. And I'd like something like New Horizon to fly past Eris which is 3 times further than Pluto, probably would need an Oberth maneuver past Jupiter to get enough speed to get there in a decade.
@dbdba
9 ай бұрын
Perhaps they should now replace the failed gyros with ring lasers instead of the mechanical ones. They are now accurate enough and (mostly) have no moving parts.
@oberonpanopticon
9 ай бұрын
Would that cost money?
@miinyoo
9 ай бұрын
Crewed Dragon. Fix Hubble. We can do it. Barely, but it's possible. Also holy smokes. Whales talking to "Chat GPT". That is genuinely incredible. That's so unbelievably cool.
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
Yeah, it would be a great challenge to show what Crew Dragon can do
@treefarm3288
9 ай бұрын
Re your comments about old spacecraft. Viking landed on Mars and I bought a NASA publication which provided glasses to view special pictures in the book, in 3D. It really gave me an idea of what Mars was like. Have they done anything like that again with more recent spacecraft?
@zapfanzapfan
9 ай бұрын
Brian May (also guitarist in Queen) was involved in New Horizon and he made some calendar or book with images from Pluto with some kind of 3D-glasses included. I haven't seen one myself but I remember him talking about it in some interview.
@davecarsley8773
9 ай бұрын
David Kipping begs to disagree about the exomoons. Unfortunately, unless he stops getting his time with JWST denied, we'll never know.
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
Of course, and Kipping is a fantastic scientist. As I said, more data needed. JWST time for Kipping.
@freebirdinct410
9 ай бұрын
If there was a civilization like ours let's say 50 light years away and they had the same technology for discovering exoplanets, what would Earth look like to them? Would they be able to detect we are a water/rocky world? Would they say Venus is capable of supporting life? What about Mars?
@RandomStuff-he7lu
9 ай бұрын
Earth would look like nothing to them. They wouldn't be able to tell anything about us.
@abrahamroloff8671
9 ай бұрын
We are just now opening up the ability to tell anything about exoplanets, besides mass and trajectory. We couldn't even get that much for Earth size worlds 'till just this last decade. What we're seeing in the Trappist-1 system right now, at about 40 ly away, is the exact answer to your question.
@artwie
9 ай бұрын
question for the q&a show: can we imagine using gravitational waves to "x-ray" the black holes? what happens when a gravitational wave approaches a black hole? any chance it doesn't "simply" fall into it's gravity well and is just gone?
@jhill4874
9 ай бұрын
If Voyager 1 fails it will be very sad. However, V1 IS really old. I has performed remarkably beyond its expected lifespan.
@zapfanzapfan
9 ай бұрын
46 years into its 4 year mission.
@vhhawk
9 ай бұрын
Could you make a compilation of the "What are you currently obsessed with?" questions you ask your interviewees? These are often my favorite bits.
@michaelmalmgren431
9 ай бұрын
I've seen those movies. V'ger in Star Trek the Motion Picture and Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home...
@nadyan9525
9 ай бұрын
yep, this whole update is basically Star Trek and I love it!
@JamesHaney
9 ай бұрын
“Admiral! There be Whales here!”🐋🐳🖖♾
@paulschlusser1085
9 ай бұрын
Great channel that I've just subscribed to after being a casual viewer for quite a while. I particularly like your long form interviews with some really interesting space/science engineering types. More of those please! And meantime, you've definitely earned by sub.
@couldntfindafreename
9 ай бұрын
Do the Voyagers have a mechanism to charge their batteries over a long period of time, then turn on only to make measurements and send them back home before the battery runs out? It could be a fixed time period, so ground antennas would know when to listen. Are they in this mode already and even that is running out of power?
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
You can't recharge decaying plutonium.
@themagiceye6723
9 ай бұрын
Dr Kipling will be dissapointed with this exomoon news. Hopefully he'll do a video about it.
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
He might disagree. Kipping really needs time on JWST.
@Khannea
9 ай бұрын
Voyager-1 has been taken over by ... them...
@ronakmist
9 ай бұрын
Would there be any value in launching a voyager like probe perpendicular to the galactic plane? I know dV requirements would be crazy, but would we stand to gain anything different by going straight "up"?
@sunriselg
9 ай бұрын
Do you mean solar plane rather than galactic plane? Both Voyagers are still well within the solar system*. They have managed only fraction of the way to the inner edge of the Oort Cloud. And both Voyagers are not travelling along the solar plane any more. Voyager 1 went up at a steep angle after encountering Saturn, Voyager 2 went down at a steep angle after encountering Neptune. * you may have heard that the Voyagers have left the solar system. No, the have exited the heliosphere (the area reached by the solar wind) and they have left the orbits of all the known planets (and Pluto) behind. But they are still far within the gravitational influence of the sun. Voyager 1 is about 162 AU from the Sun, the Oort Cloud is around 2,000-100,000 AU from the sun.
@ronakmist
9 ай бұрын
@sunriselg that's a good callout, but I did mean the galactic plane. I get that we're already at a slight angle, but hypothetically speaking, if we somehow got a top down view of the galaxy, does that aid us in any way? We'd need insane speeds though.
@sunriselg
9 ай бұрын
@@ronakmist if you can wait a few million years until your probe gets out there and sends the data back to you, sure it would be a lot easier to study the structure of the galaxy from the outside rather than from within.
@BigBoaby-sg1yo
9 ай бұрын
@@ronakmist😂😂😂😂😂😂
@ronakmist
9 ай бұрын
@sunriselg yeah sure. I know it's not something that's feasible in our lifetime. I guess I phrased my question poorly. Looking at it another way, assume you had some fictional warp drive and went out that way, is there anything to be gained scientifically?
@isaackitone
9 ай бұрын
So. Has Voyager 1 now become a freewheeling interstellar object? Just like Omuamuwah?
@martinhuhn7813
9 ай бұрын
I wonder, what causes those gyroscopes to fail and how that problem was addressed for space missions after Hubble. Will that still be a problem for more recent space-systems?
@abrahamroloff8671
9 ай бұрын
I don't know the exact cause of the failures, but it's a mechanical device and such things just break down over time. Lubricants leak and evaporate, or become slowly contaminated. Friction wears on the joints and axles. Metal/material fatigue could be the issue even for long lived systems...etc.
@martinhuhn7813
9 ай бұрын
@@abrahamroloff8671 Thanks for the answer. However, I am a little more curious about the specifics here. There are an awful lot of mechanical parts involved in a space telescopes like Hubble, but what was breaking down, were plenty of redundant gyroscopes from more than one production line. That is a specific problem with a specific kind of equipment and not one of all mechanical parts. And that specific problem was either solved since the last installations of the technology on Hubble or not and if not, thet same problems will occure on more spacecrafts - unless the whole technology was replaced by something completely different.
@zapfanzapfan
9 ай бұрын
I assume they replaced them with laser ring gyros but maybe not, space is a conservative business. One cause of failure on momentum wheels on a few other satellites was that static electricity would cause a spark between the race and balls on the ball bearings and over time the friction increased. The solution to that was ceramic balls.
@martinhuhn7813
9 ай бұрын
@@zapfanzapfan Thanks, that`s very helpful.
@JenniferA886
9 ай бұрын
Cheers for the updates 👍👍👍
@marasmusine
9 ай бұрын
I love how quickly Fraser can say "habitable". Like, twice as fast as I can.
@rodClark717
9 ай бұрын
I think he fixes his face and blows out like Yosemite Sam.
@curtiswfranks
9 ай бұрын
So, if Cassiopeia A's supernova explosion had a light delay so that it did not reach us until around A.D. 1600, that means that the ancient astronomers, particularly the Greeks who described and named this constellation, saw something different! Now, I still do not see a lady in a chair, even with a star there, but it reminds to not look at the sky as it now is, but instead as it was a few thousand years ago, in order to try to make sense of the constellation names.
@dustinking2965
9 ай бұрын
What if the AI and the whales are talking about humans behind our backs?
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
Hah, that's how the robot apocalypse started...
@heaslyben
9 ай бұрын
Voyagers 1 and 2, on the ocean!
@richiebricker
9 ай бұрын
I think ive watched every episode for the last year. Its a great channel. Maybe you can answer a question? I would like to contact astronomers and ask if they know if anyone is taking " "Time Lapse" photography of gas clouds, pulsars and the like to see the actual movement of these objects. The big gas clouds look turbulent but gas also can sit around looking turbulent. There has to be a lot of stuff moving away from super novas. This would make some award winning video clips. I also wonder if any observatories ever get together to point at the same place and same focal length to make stereoscopic images
@andrewprettyquick2070
9 ай бұрын
Voyager is a clever craft, pretty damn sure it will fix itself.
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
That would be awesome, and terrifying
@StephenBradley2317
9 ай бұрын
The aliens sitting their laughing their asses off as they send back 0's and 1's repeatedly on their little alien keyboards.
@oldyoungArt
9 ай бұрын
😂
@JAGzilla-ur3lh
9 ай бұрын
Or we translate the gibberish and it says something like, "King Ghidorah is approaching your world! Make peace with your gods!"
@donaldcarpenter5328
8 ай бұрын
The USA needs to dedicate a manned mission to REFURBISH HUBBLE yet again! It is a GIFT to ALL who call Earth (Ki) HOME!!!
@Thetimecapsuletx
9 ай бұрын
What ever they are using in voyager space crafts to communicate, we need to use in our cellphones.
@robertmiller9735
9 ай бұрын
That would be the Deep Space Tracking Network. A bit expensive for cellphone service.
@zapfanzapfan
9 ай бұрын
You mean an RTG with plutonium so you don't need to recharge the phone for 45 years?
@brigidsingleton1596
8 ай бұрын
Was Voyager_1 shot down by that Klingon 'bird of prey'...? 😢 (...sorry😕🏴❤️🙂🇬🇧🖖)
@mjkaye
9 ай бұрын
Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite, would you like a toasted tea-cake? That's a round-a-bout way of asking whether you've watched the space-based, BBC comedy series, Red Dwarf. That quote is from Talkie Toaster in S04E04.
@phineascromwell
9 ай бұрын
The 'string of stars' is most likely an electrodynamic phenomenon; signs of Birkeland Current action. Not "tidal forces"... electricity trumps gravity by orders of magnitude.
@garylcamp
8 ай бұрын
I was on the Voyager mission control team for 3 of the 4 encounters. DSE was the data systems engineer and one of my systems was the FDS. I have to admit at 77, I can't remember much about the system. But I know it was designed using very old tech, had a custom-designed computer because there were no micro-computers at that time. In fact, The 1st microchip was in 1971 and Voyager was mostly finished design by then and probably in production by then. It is kind of thrilling to me that the Voyagers are still returning important scientific data. JPL has repaired many S/C over the years that seemed impossible to fix. For example, look up Galileo Spacecraft Antenna for a really interesting problem/solution. I was a mission controller (ACE) on the extended mission.
@pyr8878
8 ай бұрын
Finally, we've discovered the 'Star Bridge'! Exciting, indeed....now, how can we access it? d>_0b
@everettputerbaugh3996
9 ай бұрын
I was born before Explorer 1 was delayed a couple of days to allow Sputnik to overfly the U.S. without complaint from the U.S. in order that the U.S.S.R. could not complain about Explorer overflight. Thus began the space races. Just helping the analytics here. I enjoy your work even though some of it breaks my brain. Keep it up, it helps me stay sharp.
@Gord1812
9 ай бұрын
Talking to whales to be able to talk to E.T.... Worked for Star Trek 4
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
It saved the world
@roncarlson8535
9 ай бұрын
ML to Whale communication: A thought - perhaps another solution to the Fermi Paradoz is that there will be contact with other sentients, but not by us. It will be accomplished by some future AGI that we have initiated. Perhaps there will be no invitation, little purpose, for our species to join that conversation... As HAL said, "sorry Dave, I can't do that..."
@LuciferMornStar
9 ай бұрын
I remember it was a big thing when voyager was launched. Wouldn't it be cool to live on a planet between 2 galaxies. No gas,dust or other junk to obscure anything. Always have 1 of 2 galaxies completely filling the knight sky
@steverafferty4114
9 ай бұрын
Stepping stones, love it Fraser, what does Prof David Kipping think about the Exo Moon findings.
@coweatsman
9 ай бұрын
The Voyagers have performed beyond expectations. Nearly 50 years. One day we will lose them forever but they are old so we shouldn't be surprised. What technology today will be still working in 50 years without any hands on servicing in all that time?
@whiteygaming6427
9 ай бұрын
We love all the interviews keep them coming! But I’m not opposed to ads in the middle of them. I watch all your ads as a small form of support
@joebloggs396
9 ай бұрын
Watching ads on KZitem rewards KZitem for allowing bigoted hate filled channels.
@Garian9
9 ай бұрын
I know a good repair guy that worked on my cable TV. Fixed it in minues. Just send that guy to fix Voyager-1.
@Raz.C
9 ай бұрын
Question for Fraser - Or for anyone who know the answer, really... OK, in "the olden days" if there were a problem with Hubble, the shuttle would pootle out there and sort it out. Nowadays, since the shuttle has gone extinct, is it even possible to perform service missions on space hardware? Can hubble be fixed/ serviced again? Or are satellites all just one-shot items?
@frasercain
9 ай бұрын
There's a mission in the works to repair Hubble using a Crew Dragon.
@Raz.C
9 ай бұрын
@@frasercain That's good to know, thanks mate
@EinsteinsHair
9 ай бұрын
Raz, my recollection is that they never sent up a special repair mission for Hubble. They sent up regular repair/ upgrade missions every 18 months or so. So, about 18 months after it launched they finally sent up an optics package because of the improperly formed mirror. But that was half-a-day of a five-day mission, in which they also replaced gyroscopes, a solar panel, upgraded a camera, and other stuff.
@jasonmamula4613
9 ай бұрын
It's funny that we built machinery from 1977 and it lasted all the way until 2023. 2023 we can't even make a car last longer than 3 years
@j7ndominica051
9 ай бұрын
How the Voyager spacecraft managed to continuously work for so long without capacitors needing a replacement. Looks like the end has finally come. Is the golden record inside a protective case?
@phattieg
8 ай бұрын
When that day comes and they turn off either one of the Voyager spacecraft I know I will personally cry. I will cry because the thought of being all by yourself so far away from home is a very powerful thought. So to imagine two spacecrafts in that situation, with abandoned technology on board, is such a sad thought.
@jpdemer5
9 ай бұрын
The problem of lubricating bearings in the vacuum of space has been surprisingly resistant to solutions, despite the vast sums of money riding on them. Failing reaction wheels and gyros are probably the #1 killer of satellites.
@jondainty6837
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info you provide. I keep thinking that yours is one place I can get the data in understandable form. The kilonova news is helpful; it may explain other things that are happening within range of our instruments. Good on you!
@JedReynoldsBitratchet
9 ай бұрын
Wonder if people are animating the xray-visible-infrared photos so as to provide a means of showing the progression through the frequencies? Like, even a thumb wheel slider on a web page would be fun
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