Voyager leaving solar system

**vrabinec** · June 19th, 2012, 10:31 AM

Looks like it's leaving the solar system.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...stellar-space/

Other than the first StarTrek movie, can you guys think of any work of fiction that made reference to Voyager? I can't think of one. You'd figure someone would've written a book about how some alien race catches it on some distant sustem and comes for a visit or something.

**psikeyhackr** · June 19th, 2012, 11:18 AM

The really funny thing is how the first Star Trek movie was a remake of the Nomad episode which was aired long before Voyager was launched.

The story is cerebral, with little in the way of space battles or other action. It is also, unfortunately, a re-hash of several old Star Trek episodes combined and re-arranged ("The Changeling" being the most obvious "inspiration").

http://www.reelviews.net/movies/s/st1.html

"The Changeling" is a season two episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on September 29, 1967

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722 kilogram (1,592 lb) space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977,

It's going to break the crystal sphere and let the universe in. It's the End of the World!!!

psik

**mylinar** · June 19th, 2012, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by psikeyhackr

It's going to break the crystal sphere and let the universe in. It's the End of the World!!!

psik

I thought that was the Large Hadron Collider, or was it Nibru the mysterious invisible planet of Mayan fame (the physics behind that story ought to get Psik's blood boiling).

Seriously though any Alien race that picks up Voyager and comes visiting is either already in the neighborhood or else Humanity is likely to be long gone. Well checking my data maybe not so bad. Voyager 1 passes within 2 LY of some star in a mere 40,000 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Still though, that is a long time. If we are still around then I hope we are able to pick it up ourselves. Be a heck of a history exibit.

**vrabinec** · June 19th, 2012, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by mylinar

If we are still around then I hope we are able to pick it up ourselves. Be a heck of a history exibit.

That would be AWSOME! And it's amazing some Hollywood script writer hasn't had the thing crash into a ship, just when things look most bleak for some hero. Because, you know, the chances are pretty good. I mean space isn't all that big. It's possible that it could hit the bad guy's ship just as the good guy was gonna get plowed over in his spacesuit...

**psikeyhackr** · June 19th, 2012, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by mylinar

I thought that was the Large Hadron Collider, or was it Nibru the mysterious invisible planet of Mayan fame (the physics behind that story ought to get Psik's blood boiling).

I don't care as long as they don't call it science fiction.

I don't talk about or argue with creationists.

psik

**mylinar** · June 20th, 2012, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by vrabinec

. I mean space isn't all that big.

By defintion space is the biggest thing there is, after all according to Stephen Hawking (and others) there is nothing outside of it. It is as big as all creation

**vrabinec** · June 22nd, 2012, 02:47 PM

Hold on now, I was just reading Hawking's The Grand Design a few months ago and I'm pretty sure he didn't say there was nothing outside of space. Pretty sure he said it didn't make any sense to ponder what's outside of space, because there's no way to know. He kinda went agnostic on the "what's beyond"

**mylinar** · June 22nd, 2012, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by vrabinec

Hold on now, I was just reading Hawking's The Grand Design a few months ago and I'm pretty sure he didn't say there was nothing outside of space. Pretty sure he said it didn't make any sense to ponder what's outside of space, because there's no way to know. He kinda went agnostic on the "what's beyond"

I have not read his latest book, I was referring to 'A Brief History of Time'. What he was saying as I recall is that Space/Time are fundamental characteristics of what we call the Universe and that anything outside its boundries are unknowable therefor the terms Space and Time are limited to what we can see (or prove mathmatically etc.)

Still its just semantics, we are not actually disagreeing on anything. I would like to read his new book someday, the topic is facinating. How can you not be interested in the Universe? Heck it has something for everyone in it