Originally published at: After brief interruption, NASA detected a signal from Voyager 2 | Boing Boing
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I like the poetry of this line:
This enchanting artifact—the Voyager Golden Record—may be the last vestige of our civilization after we are gone forever.
But we have already left a huge amount of trash in space. Is it really realistic that we’ll go out as a civilization without sending far more junk up there and further out? Or are we talking about the total destruction of the solar system?
Might be a little more accurate (and funnier) to say this might the most far out vestige of our civilization after we are gone forever.
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Tough old ship.
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At some point I have to wonder if Voyager 2 didn’t pick up some alien nanobots that were quietly monitoring Earth and have now been keeping it functioning this long. Seriously impressive.
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Cue moral panic over pornography being sent into space…
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Imagine the mixed feelings when scientists several centuries hence finally decode a transmission from an extraterrestrial intelligence only to learn the message is “SEND MOAR NUDES.”
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the stick figure creatures living on the rocks of hd-85512-c are going to be seriously disappointed
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Not outside the solar system.
In absolute terms, almost everything ever launched into space is pretty close to Earth. And the solar system as we know it will be obliterated in, roughly, 5 billion years.
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Voyager will probably return at some point…
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The disco-era spacecraft was detected by Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex’s 70-metre dish, Deep Space Station 43 (DSS43), after a long-shot search.
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