And So It Begins

V’ger is starting to go mad:

The first hint of a problem came on April 22, when engineers first spotted the data pattern change. Since then, they’ve been working to fix the glitch and began sending commands back to Voyager 2 on April 30.

Because Voyager 2 is so far from Earth, it takes 13 hours for a message to reach the spacecraft and another 13 hours for responses to come back to NASA’s Deep Space Network of listening antennas around the world.

I hate when that happens.

10 thoughts on “And So It Begins”

  1. What’s sad is realizing that the *next* generation has absolutely no idea why we’re chuckling.

  2. 33 years of solitude drives ya mad? I’ve heard that. I wonder when we’ll retrieve it? Before the living machines upgrade it I’m guessing.

  3. Falling into that black hole can’t be far behind…

    Of course Star Trek is clearly now in that alternate universe where we had advanced human genetic engineering in the 1990’s (Khan), a man in the late 1960’s (USAF Captain John Christopher) whose son (Sean Jeffrey Christopher), would command the first mission to Saturn, an ‘early’ mission to Mars occurs in 2032* and at least six Voyager-class probes were launched.

    On the other hand, Chekov always said ‘Russian,’ never ‘Soviet,’ long before the Evil Empire imploded, so maybe he historically already knew something we didn’t…

    (* Named ‘Ares IV,’ strangely enough)

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