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Honest_Abe

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38. The pale blue dot...

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 03:34 PM

Mar 2013

Voyager one was worth the price just to provide Carl Sagan's quote:

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam..."

From a picture that Sagan convinced NASA to have Voyager 1 take. Google it if you want to be awed.

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Voyager 1 has left the solar system, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate [View all] Ichingcarpenter Mar 2013 OP

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