Space Post - Poor Voyager 2

[Neil]

So it's nearly 9 billion miles away, nearly 35 years old and now developed a problem...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1005/11voyager2/

[Terran]

Launched in 1977 on a tour of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Voyager 2 is about 8.6 billion miles from Earth as it traverses the outer regions of the heliosphere, or the furthest reaches of the sun's influence.

Voyager 2 and its sistership, Voyager 1, should reach interstellar space within about 10 or 20 years. Both craft have enough propellant and electrical power to operate until at least 2020, according to NASA.
Where no man has gone before...

[BillyRay]

I keep thinking: V'ger....

http://img.trekmovie.com/images/voyagervi.jpg

[Legion2213]

I'm amazed that we can still communicate with this brave litle fella.

Godspeed Voyager 2!

[Neil]

I'm amazed that we can still communicate with this brave litle fella.

Godspeed Voyager 2!

Can you imagine how antiquated the technology is on that thing! Amazing it still works considering the evironment it's in!

[Terran]

Can you imagine how antiquated the technology is on that thing! Amazing it still works considering the evironment it's in!

I think the insides of Voyager is actually one of these....
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/bruceworld/pics/nintendo-entertainment-system.jpg

[Wooley]

Why, when I read that, I started thinking of Major Tom?

[EvilNed]

I keep thinking: V'ger....


I'm with you. In three hundred years, this thing is gonna come back and bite us in the ass.

[Mike70]

I'm with you. In three hundred years, this thing is gonna come back and bite us in the ass.

it's all over for us when the Dominion finds that gold record.

[EvilNed]

it's all over for us when the Dominion finds that gold record.

Boy. Somebody should give that Cochrane a kick in the ass and tell him to hurry up.

[axlish]

Applying a software patch to something almost as old as I am blows my mind. I wonder what the bit rate is of that signal?