Possible hijacking of Voyager2 spacecraft by aliens

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An encrypted message from the aliens. Just what does it mean?
 
L3N!N said:
New theory: Valve's viral marketing gone too far.
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i think it would be cool if Valve sent a very small probe to a nearby star. it may take 4,000 years to get there, but if it did get there how cool would that be? i bet for $3 million you could pull it off
 
Although I'd love this to be an alien message, this is just the press blowing the news sky-high. There is nothing 'extraordinary', It is just the probe not sending data correctly back to Earth. See NASA's statement (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20100506.html) and compare "The Daily Telegraph's" statement (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ger-2-spacecraft/story-e6frev20-1225865566982).

In the NASA variant everything is said in the first paragraph:

Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data. Preliminary engineering data received on May 1 show the spacecraft is basically healthy, and that the source of the issue is the flight data system, which is responsible for formatting the data to send back to Earth. The change in the data return pattern has prevented mission managers from decoding science data.
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Now check DT's version:

Signals in an unknown data format!
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See the difference?
 
this could also be a lesson learned about long distance communications. who knows if this is going to happen with Voyager 1 at some point
 
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They've just got the Transmission Received Achievement

Now NASA has to decipher the code to receive information on who will be the next administrator

I thought the signals were due to the Probe ****ing up and sending the bit's back in the wrong order. Also if aliens managed to get from their planet to the edge of our solar system why not put in the extra effort to come to our planet rather than screwing around with our probes
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They are toying with us before they destroy us :S
 
hot564231 said:
The build up is great, the ending is weak. besides the bit where James Woods says there was 16 hours of footage recorded.
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So, like Star Wars?

I do prefer to start from the beginning and be dissapointed in the order George Lucas intended.

You get a cookie if you get where that came from.

I liked this story, but just knew it some Nasa equipment screeching out with a problem. Like when your DVD player desperately tries to find the disc and wirs up and down consistently.

Was only ever going to be unknown because stuff made in China only goes wrong after x amount of time, so they never saw it coming, as such the noise was never put under the 'something has ***ked up' column of solutions.
 
Horray for still being alone in the universe!
 
Krynn is a reptilian, don't listen to him.
 
UPDATE!

NASA Revives Voyager 2 Probe at Solar System's Edge

NASA engineers have fully revived the far-flung Voyager 2 probe on the edge of the solar system after fixing a computer glitch that scrambled its messages home for nearly three weeks.

A single bit flip in one location in the 33-year-old probe's memory storage caused the problem, and was remotely reset Sunday by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. After a computer reset, the Voyager 2 is back on track, they said.

The malfunction began April 22 while Voyager 2 was flying 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth in the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system. Mission scientists could not decipher the probe's science data messages and put the spacecraft in an engineering mode to just send health updates to Earth.

The actual cause of the computer glitch is still unknown, NASA's Voyager 2 project manager Ed Massey told SPACE.com.

Voyager 2 hiccup in deep space

Memory bit flips and other electronic problems have affected spacecraft, and even Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1, in the past. But they occurred when the spacecraft were much closer to Earth, around 1 or 2 astronomical units (AU).

One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun, about 93 million miles (151 million km). That's close enough for their onboard systems to be affected by the electric charge of the sun's solar wind, Massey said.

"In some spacecraft that are closer to the sun one could think of single event upsets caused by solar activity. But we're so far away, it's hard to say that's what caused it," he added. "We're like 93, 94 AU out."

Way, way out there

The two Voyager probes are currently the farthest human-built objects from Earth. Voyager 1 is about 10.5 billion miles (16.9 billion km) away from Earth and in perfect health. Their signals take nearly 13 hours to travel to NASA's worldwide Deep Space Network of listening antennas and back.

After detecting the problem on Voyager 2, engineers ordered Voyager 2 on May 6 to only send engineering data to Earth until they could solve the glitch. That occurred on May 12, when engineers realized that a single memory location had been changed from a 0 to a 1.

By May 19, commands to reset the bit were sent to Voyager 2 and the probe resumed sending science data to Earth on May 22. NASA announced the deep space operation's success this week.

NASA launched Voyager 2 in 1977 primarily aimed at studying Saturn, though the spacecraft gained fame for its so-called "grand tour" of the solar system that also included flybys Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune thanks to a planetary alignment that only occurs once every 176 years.

Now, both Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 are headed out of the solar system entirely. Scientists hope the data they are sending back will help answer questions surrounding the magnetic bubble around the solar system.

No known source of magnetic or electric field exists in the membrane which separates the heliosphere from interstellar space, said Massey. Voyager 2 has occupied this region since 2007, said Massey, and has not seen any problems.

"The real question is whether we'll ever know," He said.
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http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/voyager-2-recovers-computer-glitch-100527.html

glad they help fix the ancient craft. who knows, maybe in 1,000 years we'll look back to today and remember how important probes are
 
A single bit flip in one location in the 33-year-old probe's memory storage caused the problem, and was remotely reset Sunday by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. After a computer reset, the Voyager 2 is back on track, they said.

The malfunction began April 22 while Voyager 2 was flying 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth in the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system. Mission scientists could not decipher the probe's science data messages and put the spacecraft in an engineering mode to just send health updates to Earth.
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thats what they want you to think......

*leaves trough the dark*
 
God damn man... sometimes it's a pain in the ass communicating between two computers on the same network physically connected to each other... let alone one that is insanely far out in space.
 
That's why I get depressed when thinking about distances in space. Even if we do find contact with intelligent beings; exchanging 1 hello would take like 400 years even at the speed of light.
 
AKIRA said:
That's why I get depressed when thinking about distances in space. Even if we do find contact with intelligent beings; exchanging 1 hello would take like 400 years even at the speed of light.
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Imagine trying to watch the space olympics!!

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Fucking magnetic bubbles, how do they work?
 
The sun is full of ions and stuff right? And since it's bigass like ****, then the bubble created by the super hydrons would be like a goddamn atom's nucleus or someshit.
 
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