The two Voyager spacecrafts - 40 years later . . .

[anotherlife]

This is an excellent thread!

After the voyager, the next step could be, to send out life support systems with people in them, for very long haul journeys, like the Voyagers are doing. This would allow the study of human adaptation to deep space, both biologically and socially.

Why would you CONDEMN a human being to an eternity in cold dark space, never to experience the ONLY known place with sun, trees, grass, singing birds and all the beauty this world has to offer? Man can be unimaginably cruel to others.

Because it is still better than prison. And the number of people in prison has doubled in the recent 10 years.

 

[fncceo]

Can we PLEASE leave politics out of this?

Here’s what fascinates me. So voyagers have both seen our amazing solar system and that’s great but this science show was explaining what they have to deal with getting out of our suns gravitational pull. Beyond the Ort cloud. Radiation will be high until they clear it but then they truly out there in the universe. Interstellar. They are there now yes?

My god how empty dark and quiet it will be for those voyagers. At least 80,000 years they won’t see a planet moon meteor or comit. Nothing just deep dark space. You in a little sailboat on the ocean is a thousand times better off than they are.

We don’t realize how far the nearest star is to us. Not 10 lifetimes but 200 generations away.

Unless we can go faster someday. Still glad they are out there

I have a feeling we’ll see them again, some day.

 

[mhansen2]

Maybe not. Remember what happened to Pioneer 10?

 

[fncceo]

Recurring theme

 

[theHawk]

The very people that the treasonous fat senile old orange clown and his Trumpanzees claim can never get anything right. LOL

NASA has every right to be very proud. Many of it's projects are operating very far beyond the projected lifespans. And the luddites just keep trying to remove the money that we use to capture that data that they are sending back. One has to wonder what the hell these bucktoothed morons are thinking.

You’re a lying sack of shit.

President Trump has ordered them to get back to the moon (The Hussein let the Chinese get there), and they have plans to get to Mars.

Trump's Moon Directive Earns Praise from NASA, Others

 

[mhansen2]

You’re a lying sack of shit.

President Trump has ordered them to get back to the moon (The Hussein let the Chinese get there), and they have plans to get to Mars.

Hold on there, Bud. What Trump says with all the cameras on him and what the Republican dominated Congress does are two different things. Let's see Congress fund the effort before we do any name calling.