Voyager space craft

[beeejay]

many cats

This is the correct answer for sooooo many questions.

 

[PneumaticSuicide]

many cats

This is the correct answer for sooooo many questions.

its pretty much how i get through day to day life

 

[Zacharine]

http://www.heavens-above.com/solar-escape.asp

Both Voyager 1 and 2 are within the heliosheath (as are Pioneers 10 and 11, but they are non-functional), after succesfully passing through the terminal shock; the solar wind travels at roughly 400 km/s until it collides with the interstellar wind, the flow of plasma in the interstellar medium - the solar wind then slows dramatically, condenses and becomes more turbulent, forming the so-called heliosheath. Heliopause is the outer edge of said sheath, and neither is quite there yet. After that, will come the next hurdle, called Bow shock, a plasma "wake" left by the Sun as it travels through the Milky Way. That though is roughly at 230 AU away - even for Voyager 1 that's over a hundred AU away.

After that, they will slowly drift away in interstellar space.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Then it will just drift for thousands and thousands of years before reaching anything of remote interest.
Remind me; Was Voyager the one we sent out with all "relevant data" on humanity, hoping that an alien lifeform would pick it up?

That was the hope. But according to Star Trek, an advanced alien species will find it and use it for target practice.

 

[Realitycrash]

Then it will just drift for thousands and thousands of years before reaching anything of remote interest.
Remind me; Was Voyager the one we sent out with all "relevant data" on humanity, hoping that an alien lifeform would pick it up?

That was the hope. But according to Star Trek, an advanced alien species will find it and use it for target practice.

Then V'Ger will turn into the Borg, and we're screwed.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

That was the hope. But according to Star Trek, an advanced alien species will find it and use it for target practice.

Then V'Ger will turn into the Borg, and we're screwed.[/quote]

Not if we can convince Patrick Stewart to live for a few more hundred years so he can stop it from happening.

 

[FalloutJack]

I was thinking bout the Voyager space craft reaching the edge of our solar system and started wondering what will happen when it passes through.

My theory is that it will hit the edge of the solar system and tear through a giant poster what looks like the rest of the milkyway but is really just a painting and then re-appear near our sun and end up back at earth.

Stoopid theory i know but i think its funny to think about it

Any other thoughts?

It will come back in about three hundred years as an all-powerful living spaceship.