Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/05/nasa-wont-be-able-to-talk-to.html
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Commander Spock:
V’Ger must evolve. It’s knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve. What it requires of it’s god, doctor, is the answer to it’s question, “is there nothing more”?
Commander Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.:
What more is there than the universe, Spock?
Commander Willard Decker:
Other dimensions. Higher levels of being.
Commander Spock:
The existance of which cannot be proven logically. Therefore, V’Ger is incapable of believing in them.
Captain James T. Kirk:
What it needs in order to evolve… Is a human quality. Our capacity to leap beyond logic.
Commander Willard Decker:
And joining with it’s creator might accomplish that.
Commander Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, M.D.:
You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?
Commander Willard Decker:
Let’s find out.
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I think you did a Dr. Evil typo there.
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That kind of silence / distance can be difficult on a relationship.
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" As a result, NASA won’t be able to transmit commands 12 million miles into space to the intrepid Voyager 2 space probe…" That would be 12 Billion miles, which is a bit further. 
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Thank you! Duh.
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I just worry that Voyager will get lonely 
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This communication gap is, of course, the window that alien invaders have been waiting to exploit.
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I always thought it was a little freaky that Decker wanted to bang a space probe but to each his own.
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I feels you Dudette.
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This cartoon can bring a tear to my eye when I’m in my cups.
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Well, that makes it a bit easier for the Vogons
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What a time to be alive, that that is a phrase that exists.
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Commander Decker: Hey baby, I think it’s time we take this thing to the next level. How about you let me go where no man has gone before?
Lieutenant Ilia: [rolls eyes] Don’t flatter yourself, honey. You’re about 15 years late for that.
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