V'ger seeks to find and combine with the Creator

[Judge Smails]

IT left Earth 33 years ago, now it's claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode. (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft/story-e6frev20-1225865566982)


NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.

But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!

The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?
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[Dan 'Hampton]

There should be a tag for stories from british or Aussie newspapers.

[torker]

sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode.

FM?
http://www.ronfez.net/mediastorage/images/logoWNEW.jpg

[A.J.]

I blame the Borg.

[KnoxHarrington]

Maybe they should try responding to it with whale songs.

Yeah, I know that's another Star Trek movie. A much better one.

Well, double dumbass on you too!

[thepaulo]

Maybe they should try responding to it with whale songs.

Yeah, I know that's another Star Trek movie. A much better one.

Well, double dumbass on you too!

I vote for Star Trek I
or as its also known
Star Trek The Movie

[Freitag]

I vote for Star Trek I
or as its also known
Star Trek The Movie

If you're gonna come, you better come correct, it's Star Trek the Motion Picture.

[Freitag]

It's not garbled data, it's just colorful metaphors.

[A.J.]

Maybe they should try responding to it with whale songs.

Yeah, I know that's another Star Trek movie. A much better one.

Well, double dumbass on you too!

Go look for the nuclear wessels!

[Freitag]

Go look for the nuclear wessels!

Target that explosion and fire!

[Boogie in Va]

Get Jeff Goldbum on the phone ASAP. He can decipher it.

[Crossweird]

"Tell Jerry we're on our way."

[Furtherman]

Far out, man.

http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2010/02/gr-voyager-300.gif

[Contra]

Get Jeff Goldbum on the phone ASAP. He can decipher it.

I would have went with Jodie Foster

[CountryBob]

Where's j3lehane when you need him?

[Freitag]

I would have went with Jodie Foster

shoulda sent a poet

[Dougie Brootal]

Far out, man.

http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2010/02/gr-voyager-300.gif

those satellites are each 4x the size of earth!!! HOW DID WE MANAGE TO BUILD AND LAUNCH THEM?!?!?!

[Boogie in Va]

those satellites are each 4x the size of earth!!! HOW DID WE MANAGE TO BUILD AND LAUNCH THEM?!?!?!

:clap::clap::clap:

[A.J.]

Maybe it's God telling us He needs a starship.

[Furtherman]

Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man.

[thepaulo]

If you're gonna come, you better come correct, it's Star Trek the Motion Picture.
you are so right

[A.J.]

We'll rendezvous at Wolf 359.

[KnoxHarrington]

I vote for Star Trek I
or as its also known
Star Trek The Movie

You think Star Trek 1 is better than Star Trek 4?

Did you do a lot of LDS in the '60s?

[disneyspy]

You think Star Trek 1 is better than Star Trek 4?

Did you do a lot of LDS in the '60s?

its LSD you nerd

[Furtherman]

Q! What devilish game are you playing now!?

[underdog]

its LSD you nerd

He was asking if he fucked a lot of mormons, actually.

[Furtherman]

Did you do a lot of LDS in the '60s?

its LSD you nerd

He was asking if he fucked a lot of mormons, actually.

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[brettmojo]

those satellites are each 4x the size of earth!!! HOW DID WE MANAGE TO BUILD AND LAUNCH THEM?!?!?!
THAT'S IT! That's the paradox! They get larger in the past!

[torker]

its LSD you nerd

:thumbup:

[thepaulo]

You think Star Trek 1 is better than Star Trek 4?

Did you do a lot of LDS in the '60s?

I plead the 5th on the LSD.
Never a Star Trek fan but I am a Robert Wise fan and I like the serious tone of the first movie...but I didn't get all excited about Star Trek 2 and 4 like everybody else.

Besides Star Trek I is about a space probe that turns into a kind of super being.

[furie]

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/05/voyager-2-stops-making-sense.ars

[STC-Dub]

It is highly illogical to assume the probe has been altered by aliens.

[zentraed]

Maybe the record finally started skipping.

[CaptainBlowhole]

As far as interstellar distances are concerned, the edge of the solar system is no closer to the earth is than the earth is from the sun. If an alien race were "out there", flying around, the distance the Voyager is away makes no difference as far as convenience for them to get to than the earth. So, I doubt its anything other than distortion by distance and interference with the background "noise" of space at this point.

[A.J.]

It merged with an alien probe and will now sterilize imperfections!

http://www.tvacres.com/images/robots_nomad.jpg

[Judge Smails]

As far as interstellar distances are concerned, the edge of the solar system is no closer to the earth is than the earth is from the sun. If an alien race were "out there", flying around, the distance the Voyager is away makes no difference as far as convenience for them to get to than the earth. So, I doubt its anything other than distortion by distance and interference with the background "noise" of space at this point.

Oh yeah, smart guy? Have you stopped to consider that a little thing called "The Prime Directive" may be keeping them from showing up on our doorstep until they get a formal invitation.

Please, do some basic research into the politics of interstellar communication before you start spouting your piddly little facts about spacial distances.

[CaptainBlowhole]

Captain Kirk fucked ever alien babe he met, so Tiberius is in violation!

[A.J.]

Captain Kirk fucked ever alien babe he met, so Tiberius is in violation!

Oh, he violated alright....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Sybeck1/Wink_of_an_Eye_279.jpg

[Furtherman]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/05/500x_voyager20100430-browse.jpg

Today we'll find out if aliens hijacked Voyager 2 (http://io9.com/5542793/today-well-find-out-if-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2)

Communications troubles with space probe Voyager 2 - a vessel containing "we are here" messages for aliens - inspired speculation that ET had commandeered the vessel. But NASA calls it a technical glitch. Today is the moment of truth.

The furor began last month when the probe, which sends back regular updates to Earth, began spurting nonsense data that seemed to contain some kind of pattern. Was it an alien message? NASA engineers suspected a failure in the flight data system, but a German "alien expert" claimed otherwise. Hautwig Hausdorf told German newspaper Das Bild:

It seems almost as if someone has reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth.

Today we should be able to verify that the problem was not extraterrestrial in origin, as NASA tests a fix for the technical glitch.

In an announcement posted earlier this week, NASA explained:

One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday, May 17. A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1.

On May 12, engineers received a full memory readout from the flight data system computer, which formats the data to send back to Earth. They isolated the one bit in the memory that had changed, and they recreated the effect on a computer at JPL. They found the effect agrees with data coming down from the spacecraft. They are planning to reset the bit to its normal state on Wednesday, May 19.

[furie]

NASA Fixes Bug On Voyager 2

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has resumed sending science data from deep space after engineers fixed a bug that had garbled the information it was sending back to Earth, a leading project scientist said on Monday.

"The science data format is working," Edward Stone told RIA Novosti.

The science data coming from Voyager 2 had been unintelligible since April, but last week engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California figured out what was causing the problem - one bit in the memory of the computer that formats the data to transmit it to Earth had flipped from a zero to a one - and reset the system. (http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_Fixes_Bug_On_Voyager_2_999.html)

[thepaulo]

NASA Fixes Bug On Voyager 2

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has resumed sending science data from deep space after engineers fixed a bug that had garbled the information it was sending back to Earth, a leading project scientist said on Monday.

"The science data format is working," Edward Stone told RIA Novosti.

The science data coming from Voyager 2 had been unintelligible since April, but last week engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California figured out what was causing the problem - one bit in the memory of the computer that formats the data to transmit it to Earth had flipped from a zero to a one - and reset the system. (http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_Fixes_Bug_On_Voyager_2_999.html)

what a bummer...no aliens.

[sailor]

For a ship looking for aliens, NASA seemed really eager to prove it wasn't aliens. Almost like they secretly think the idea is silly.

[thepaulo]

For a ship looking for aliens, NASA seemed really eager to prove it wasn't aliens. Almost like they secretly think the idea is silly.

disinformation?

[sailor]

disinformation?

obviously. Das bild is the propaganda arm of the bilderberg group.

[Section 8]

So then, how did the bit get flipped?

[Furtherman]

For a ship looking for aliens, NASA seemed really eager to prove it wasn't aliens. Almost like they secretly think the idea is silly.

Voyager's mission was not to look for aliens, but to gather data about our star system and it's boundaries. The brass plaque with information about us is just there in case someone, or something comes across it. Which is unlikely, considering the vastness of interstellar space, unless they're highly advanced to detect such an anomaly.