[OT] Goodbye Pioneer 10

[Krug]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030226073614.htm

 

[Alaxk Knight of Galt]

Remarkably cool. I can only imagine what might pick up Pioneer 10 someday and what they will think of our little race.

Makes you feel real small, I guess that's a good thing though.

 

[Mark CMG]

What a workhorse! So long and thanks for the fishes!

 

[KnowTheToe]

Remarkably cool. I can only imagine what might pick up Pioneer 10 someday and what they will think of our little race.

They will start to worry about us coming to kick their ass! Little race indeed, the nerve of them. I have got a half a mind to, wait, no I just have half a mind.

 

[Drawmack]

Eventually another race is going to find this piece of space junk and fine us 26 quadrillian intergallactic centillians for littering. Then when they get here and see everything that is spinning in our loclal space they will simply blow up the earth for gross inffractions of the codes against space littering.

 

[barsoomcore]

The launch of the Pioneer spacecraft took place when I was a child. I remember the National Geographic articles describing where they would go and what they would see, and then later the articles showing the actual pictures taken, first of Mars and then of Jupiter.

So long, Pioneer. I hope someone finds you someday.

 

[Thresher]

Ah we're humans, I can see it punching a hole through the side of someone's battlecruiser and then they pick up the bits and go "Right! I'll have you punks!"

 

[Henry]

No, the real fun will be if humanity ever develops a faster-than-light means of travel, and the thing slams into one of our colonies about 10 million years from now...

...talk about the ultimate time capsule - the aliens will be our descendants.

 

[barsoomcore]

No, the real fun will be if humanity ever develops a faster-than-light means of travel, and the thing slams into one of our colonies about 10 million years from now...

I read a really cool novel (can't recall the title) by A.E. van Vogt where our heroes pile into a space ship and get cryogenically frozen for their 2,000,000-year-long trip to Alpha Centauri, and when they get there humans have already colonized it and have no idea who these clowns are. Very amusing.

 

[Murrdox]

Heck, Pioneer might not be too far out of the solar system by the time we develop better stellar travel methods!

Pioneer is outside the orbit of pluto, but still has a LOONG way to go before it leaves the solar system completely.

It's possible that in a few years, we may be able to go out and FIND Pioneer, and give it an engine upgrade to take it out farther.

Can you folks believe that all the photos we have of Uranus and Neptune were taken by Voyager I and II, and that was more than 10 or 15 years ago??

I can't wait until the Cassini probe gets to Saturn! It should be absolutely wonderful! That, in addition to HOPEFULLY the Pluto/Kuiper probe whose funding finally got approved.