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.
What’s hilarious is that a whole generation of geeks know exactly what you’re referring to…
What’s sad is realizing that the *next* generation has absolutely no idea why we’re chuckling.
And In thought it took my kids a long time to return a call!!
Yep, now where is that race of living machines…
…can bald women be far behind?
When V’Ger goes, it’s taking those polyester leisure uniforms with it, right?
NASA should’ve spent the extra $99.95 and gotten the extended warranty….
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.
Now if a Berzerker finds it first, they’ll know just where to find us.
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)