[OT] Goodbye Pioneer 10

[Sniktch]

The scary part to me...

Isn't Aldebaran the star in HP Lovecraft's work where supposedly the Unspeakable One lives? So we're sending Cthulhu's brother a road map of how to get here???

 

[DarkSoldier]

There was a Star Trek TNG episode where they revived some of the people who were cryogenically frozen because their space capsule was falling apart. Talk about culture shock.

1st season finale: "Neutral Zone." Three humans who died (or were dying) in the 20th century get thawed out in 2361, cured of their fatal ailments, and have no idea what happened, where they are, and what to do when they go back to Earth.

Then there was ST: TMP, where "V'ger" came back to Earth in search of its "creator." Kirk & co. figured out that V'ger was actually a Voyager probe after being found by beings from a machine planet, overhauled into a colossal spacecraft, and then sent back. It had gained sentience, and needed human emotion to complete its task of gathering knowledge.

 

[Steverooo]

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...

Are you kidding?

So innovative Entrepeneur would buy an FTL Space-yacht, plot the course and GO AFTER IT! Once the dust from all the lawsuits settled, he'd sell it to some museum, and the kiddies could come pay a buck-twenty-five and see it!

 

[Steverooo]

The worry for me is its destination: Aldebaran

Cos every keeper worth his salt knows Hastur, the Unspeakable (Great Old One) is imprisoned in space, near the star Aldebaran.

Yeah, and every Keeper knows that the isane Illuminati cultists run the space program's controlling Industrial-Military complex, and the key was...

Oops!

I've said too much, haven't I?

I'm sorry; I'll have to kill you all, now!

 

[tleilaxu]

Can you folks believe that all the photos we have of Uranus ... were taken by Voyager I and II, and that was more than 10 or 15 years ago??
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yes, i know it is juvenile, but this cracks me up every time....

 

[Mark CMG]

yes, i know it is juvenile, but this cracks me up every time....

The close ups of the Spots and the Great Fissure of Uranus always seem to draw a certain amount of laughter from the mass audience.