To Boldly Go
 

NASA's Voyager I hit by third solar 'tsunami' - CNET

Data from this newest tsunami wave generated by our sun confirm that Voyager is in interstellar space -- a region between the stars filled with a thin soup of charged particles, also known as plasma.

The mission has not left the solar system -- it has yet to reach a final halo of comets surrounding our sun -- but it broke through the wind-blown bubble, or heliosphere, encasing our sun. Voyager is the farthest human-made probe from Earth, and the first to enter the vast sea between stars.

I'm astonished that it is still transmitting data after all this time.

Infinity split again :D

We are V...ger, we seek the creator...

Pretty dammed impressive piece of engineering.

- Peter.

Everytime I hear about Voyager, I think of that.

Voyager is still sending back data. It went a bit goofy for a bit but engineers were able to fix it and according to them, the little space craft is operating perfectly. Hard to believe that this satellite was launched 45 yrs ago and a mind bending 14.5 billion miles away from earth traveling in interstellar space.
https://www.inverse.com/science/voyager-1-nasa-communication

It is a fantastic piece of engineering. Must have been phenomenal to be a part of the voyager team. I remember how awe struck I was when the issue of National Geographic arrived with the picture on the cover of a volcanoe errupting off of the edge of IO. Truly a wake up to the universe and an indication that everything up there wasn't as "dead" as our moons surface had proven to be.

- Peter.

almost 2 years since we heard from jplinville ...

Amazing. Here we are still arguing about gas vs electric.

I'm still hanging on to flux capacitor https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/...he-Future-.jpg

Like An Old Timex,
 

....It's still going and going......

Wow, 45 years gone allready .

Last i remember people were campaigning on his behalf for a roof repair.

He was t-boned in his R107 and messed up a bit.

Bad News
 

I hope he's doing O.K. and gets back to full health .

The engineering was incredible and the idea noble. Putting on my downer hat once again, I think the chances of any other living beings encountering the craft and reading the clues about the strange species that sent it hither are tiny beyond tiny. And even on the slim chance that it did wander into a solar system with an inhabited planet, much more likely it would burn up like yet another meteor than be captured intact by that species.

Any being that were to discover it would have to so so advanced that would see their tech as magic. Closest star is something like 4.5 light years away from us...If anyone has figured out how to fo faster than light I doubt they would have any interest in us, as primitive as we are.

If you believe the likes of Hawking's and others, any life form that stumbles upon us will not see us as an ally but as a food or labor source. Thet are more likely to be like the Borg (Star Trek) or Kaylon (Orville). Likely none of us will be around to experience it.

We have a few places that look possible already in our solar system, i believe.

To Boldly Go.... where every man has gone before .... Stormy Daniels