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Bay Boy

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3. That is so awesome to think...
Wed Mar 20, 2013, 12:44 PM
Mar 2013

...that a human made object has traveled so far!
Maybe I missed it but how long does it take for the signal to travel back to us?

This is fascinating. CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2013 #1
I don't think they know sharp_stick Mar 2013 #8
It makes me wonder... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #37
Did you mean Manned? AFAIK, humans made the Voyager probes. Thor_MN Apr 2013 #63
Sorry, damn autocorrect. ny awoke_in_2003 Apr 2013 #64
Our species will never be the same. lastlib Mar 2013 #2
Very nice comment! Whoopdedoo Mar 2013 #45
Indeed. NutmegYankee Mar 2013 #50
That is so awesome to think... Bay Boy Mar 2013 #3
if my math is correct, approx 40 days corkhead Mar 2013 #7
Doesn't sound right to me... Bay Boy Mar 2013 #9
well, I did say "if my math was correct" corkhead Mar 2013 #46
You were probably off by a little bit... Bay Boy Mar 2013 #12
It's closer to about 16.5 hrs Jayster84 Mar 2013 #10
Imagine how tiny the sun looks Bay Boy Mar 2013 #11
There is a program called stellarium. Jayster84 Mar 2013 #13
Our Sun Would Still Be By Far The Brightest Object In The Sky DallasNE Mar 2013 #42
Speaking of the brightest object in the sky Bay Boy Mar 2013 #48
I know earth shows up in camera shots from Saturn NutmegYankee Mar 2013 #51
The Earth Should Appear As A Crescent DallasNE Mar 2013 #59
I don't know when it was taken NutmegYankee Mar 2013 #60
11 billion miles in 16.5 hours? UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #22
No, but its signals are. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #26
I knew the Voyagers aren't traveling at light speed. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #28
Yes Bay Boy Mar 2013 #34
Mind boggling. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #35
Not so much... when I was younger Bay Boy Mar 2013 #40
I did once tie a string to the light switch... nt AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2013 #49
Launched in 1977! Back when we built things right, I guess. I just graduated for HS. Amazing. et Purveyor Mar 2013 #52
35 years to travel 17 light hours. We're still a long way from being interstellar travelers. leveymg Mar 2013 #54
Think Alderson Drive and the Crazy Eddie Point... pangaia Mar 2013 #57
ACHIEVEMENT krispos42 Mar 2013 #4
Actually, we made it to the void between them,...barely. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #20
It's only a matter of time until the Klingons find it, now. krispos42 Mar 2013 #21
11 billion miles sharp_stick Mar 2013 #5
That is cool! Vinnie From Indy Mar 2013 #6
I wonder how many of these types of things, built by other species, are wandering the universe MNBrewer Mar 2013 #14
Probably a lot... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #23
My guess is there are probably many objects in space launched by other life forms. But, it is high ladjf Mar 2013 #56
A bunch of lonely species casting bottles into the universal ocean. MNBrewer Mar 2013 #61
~Thirty-five thousand years from now, passing 'close' to Alpha-Centauri ... DreamGypsy Mar 2013 #15
and turn the Gold Record into a Belt Buckle formercia Mar 2013 #33
Hail the goer! bananas Mar 2013 #16
Wicked awesome. AtheistCrusader Mar 2013 #17
I thought it already came back in that Star Trek movie,,,,, benld74 Mar 2013 #18
That was Voyager 6 sdfernando Mar 2013 #29
Huge K & R !!! - And To Any Benevolent Aliens Who Encounter Voyager 1... WillyT Mar 2013 #19
Go, V-GER, go! bluedigger Mar 2013 #24
Dibs on being the Creator!! meegbear Mar 2013 #30
LOL ! alittlelark Mar 2013 #43
This has to rate as one of the biggest scientific successes of all time. denverbill Mar 2013 #25
I was 9 in 77... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #36
Voyager is one burrowowl Mar 2013 #27
Now the fun begins jRus61 Mar 2013 #31
WOOOT! Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #32
The pale blue dot... Honest_Abe Mar 2013 #38
Sagan also goes on to say in the Pale blue dot that tibbiit Mar 2013 #55
Totally exciting...this is the kind of thing that gives me hope... Tikki Mar 2013 #39
Not quite yet. According to NASA, it won't happen for another 14,000 years. Still in the Oort Cloud. NYC Liberal Mar 2013 #41
I've often wondered usmc03 Mar 2013 #44
This group has a song called 'farewell voyager' but it isnt on youtube AtheistCrusader Mar 2013 #47
this d_r Mar 2013 #53
Voyager I will likely exist longer than the human race unless it crashes into some space object. nt ladjf Mar 2013 #58
V'GER!!! Odin2005 Apr 2013 #62
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