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Founders Fan  User ID: 2539184 United States07/09/2014 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know it is just a machine Quoting: davId 39253629 but it is so tiny, in the great scope of things on some indefinable level, is there some sense of self? so far from home, so far from anything and the missives it sends to it's origin, do they contain a glimpse of the cold yawning chasms that lie before it. is there a poignant hint of homesickness in the little voice that whispers back to us over inestimable leagues? perhaps i imagine too much still though... That's really sad If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. Bob Marley “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809) Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee |
Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States07/09/2014 01:52 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know it is just a machine Quoting: davId 39253629 but it is so tiny, in the great scope of things on some indefinable level, is there some sense of self? so far from home, so far from anything and the missives it sends to it's origin, do they contain a glimpse of the cold yawning chasms that lie before it. is there a poignant hint of homesickness in the little voice that whispers back to us over inestimable leagues? perhaps i imagine too much still though... That's really sad [link to xkcd.com]  |
| UniKitty User ID: 57645270 United States07/09/2014 01:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA’s Voyager I is now in interstellar space, making it the first and farthest human-made space probe. New measurements of solar tsunami waves drew the scientists to formulate the conclusion. Quoting: TeamUFO [link to rt.com] From the article: " “Normally, interstellar space is like a quiet lake,” said Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the mission's project scientist since 1972 in a statement released on NASA’s website. " ~ ~ ~ Assumptions are not facts. How the fuck would they know how interstellar space is? Based on what? Based on Voyager 1 which has been in interstellar space for a while now? Maybe you should have thought of that before starting your tirade? They're just trying to relate to lay people the difference between interstellar space under normal conditions vs interstellar space when a CME shockwave from the sun comes through. Decades of primitive science should not define nor shape the concept behind billions of years of creation. Sort of like me watching you (from afar) for a few days and defining you as a person for your entire lifetime, based on indirect and limited observations. Think about how absurd that premise is for a moment.  How I Define A Fallen World Is When The Value Of Money Outweighs The Value Of Life, When Lies And Liars Are Praised And Followed And The Truth And Those Who Speak It Are The Greatest Of Threats. |
| Rabid Wolf User ID: 47084711 United States07/09/2014 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know it is just a machine Quoting: davId 39253629 but it is so tiny, in the great scope of things on some indefinable level, is there some sense of self? so far from home, so far from anything and the missives it sends to it's origin, do they contain a glimpse of the cold yawning chasms that lie before it. is there a poignant hint of homesickness in the little voice that whispers back to us over inestimable leagues? perhaps i imagine too much still though... That's really sad [link to xkcd.com] After reading that, I though I had a tear forming at the corner of my eye! Then I realized it was just an eye-booger. |
| Spine monkey User ID: 39475233 United States07/09/2014 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This thing is still running after what 40+ years? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 60071064 Good thing they keep the 80 year supply of power for themselves. /sarcasm That's what I was wondering too. What are nuclear batteries that last for 40 years? Some kind of over unity device that NASA has had since the 70's while rest of the world thinks we are in perpetual "energy crisis". They use the heat generated from nuclear waste, combined with thermoelectric devices to create power for 80+ years. Something the power companies could've used long ago, but then we wouldn't have to pay them for electricity every month. You know, for all we talk about free energy, if we really had free energy, if ANYONE could use as much energy as they wanted, basically, boy would we be in a world of trouble. |
| JustChillin User ID: 58068420 United States07/09/2014 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One day, those gold records on Voyager 1 & 2 are going to bite us in the ass. Quoting: Rabid Wolf Especially if Ghetto Aliens find it and think gold is so plentiful on Earth that we use it for something as simple as a record. They figured using gold would be a good way to capture their attention, since they made it important to us in ancient times If I'm not mistaken, those records have music and books in every different language, including ancient dead languages  Click the Gold disc's on the right. [link to en.wikipedia.org] "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 31483220 United States07/09/2014 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One day, those gold records on Voyager 1 & 2 are going to bite us in the ass. Quoting: Rabid Wolf Especially if Ghetto Aliens find it and think gold is so plentiful on Earth that we use it for something as simple as a record. They figured using gold would be a good way to capture their attention, since they made it important to us in ancient times If I'm not mistaken, those records have music and books in every different language, including ancient dead languages :yup!: Click the Gold disc's on the right. [link to en.wikipedia.org] They will also know we hve split atom |
| Rabid Wolf User ID: 47084711 United States07/09/2014 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Decades of primitive science should not define nor shape the concept behind billions of years of creation. Quoting: UniKitty Sort of like me watching you (from afar) for a few days and defining you as a person for your entire lifetime, based on indirect and limited observations. Think about how absurd that premise is for a moment. Well, if you are going to try and understand the universe, you have to start with what you have available. Observation and testable theories. You have to start somewhere, and science evolves as it learns new things. |
| Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States07/09/2014 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA’s Voyager I is now in interstellar space, making it the first and farthest human-made space probe. New measurements of solar tsunami waves drew the scientists to formulate the conclusion. Quoting: TeamUFO [link to rt.com] From the article: " “Normally, interstellar space is like a quiet lake,” said Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the mission's project scientist since 1972 in a statement released on NASA’s website. " ~ ~ ~ Assumptions are not facts. How the fuck would they know how interstellar space is? Based on what? Based on Voyager 1 which has been in interstellar space for a while now? Maybe you should have thought of that before starting your tirade? They're just trying to relate to lay people the difference between interstellar space under normal conditions vs interstellar space when a CME shockwave from the sun comes through. Decades of primitive science should not define nor shape the concept behind billions of years of creation. Sort of like me watching you (from afar) for a few days and defining you as a person for your entire lifetime, based on indirect and limited observations. Think about how absurd that premise is for a moment. I have an idea, maybe they just shouldn't tell you anything at all. Maybe a test should be required to read any NASA publication at all. If you don't demonstrate basic logic and scientific literacy, you're barred from reading it to keep people from twisting the words contained within. No one is saying that interstellar space is calm at all times and at all locations throughout the galaxy. That is absurd and that is not what that statement was meant to be taken to mean. We know of regions of our galaxy where the interstellar material is anything but calm, that's not the point. The point was just to give a lay comparison to normal conditions around Voyager vs CME conditions in the here and now, but of course some anti-science person has to find it and try to twist it. Unbelievable. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25158901 United States07/09/2014 02:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Decades of primitive science should not define nor shape the concept behind billions of years of creation. Quoting: UniKitty Sort of like me watching you (from afar) for a few days and defining you as a person for your entire lifetime, based on indirect and limited observations. Think about how absurd that premise is for a moment. Well, if you are going to try and understand the universe, you have to start with what you have available. Observation and testable theories. You have to start somewhere, and science evolves as it learns new things. No. You don't have to be forced to value only the objective part of the universe as scientific culture does. A culture that is based upon the belief that the observer is separate from the observed. There is a choice. ------ |
| Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States07/09/2014 02:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Decades of primitive science should not define nor shape the concept behind billions of years of creation. Quoting: UniKitty Sort of like me watching you (from afar) for a few days and defining you as a person for your entire lifetime, based on indirect and limited observations. Think about how absurd that premise is for a moment. Well, if you are going to try and understand the universe, you have to start with what you have available. Observation and testable theories. You have to start somewhere, and science evolves as it learns new things. No Rabid, if you haven't been around for billions of years you have no right to start anything, say anything, or report anything about any conditions in space. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37061786 United States07/09/2014 02:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One day, those gold records on Voyager 1 & 2 are going to bite us in the ass. Quoting: Rabid Wolf Especially if Ghetto Aliens find it and think gold is so plentiful on Earth that we use it for something as simple as a record. :yup!: What if there's a Darth Vader running around collecting planet's to rule. He just hasn't found Earth.....Yet.  |
| van down by the river User ID: 647094 United States07/09/2014 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know it is just a machine Quoting: davId 39253629 but it is so tiny, in the great scope of things on some indefinable level, is there some sense of self? so far from home, so far from anything and the missives it sends to it's origin, do they contain a glimpse of the cold yawning chasms that lie before it. is there a poignant hint of homesickness in the little voice that whispers back to us over inestimable leagues? perhaps i imagine too much still though... Duuuude...did you score some of that medicinal cannabis?   |
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| van down by the river User ID: 647094 United States07/09/2014 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This thing is still running after what 40+ years? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 60071064 Good thing they keep the 80 year supply of power for themselves. /sarcasm Built and designed when America still was mostly great. Now its a shithole sending rockets into space with Russian engines and Chinese microchips with trannys running around JPL.  Sad but true, greed has taken one of the greatest to shit. My father was one of the designers electrical engineers for Voyager I space project. It has kept working much longer then it was suppose to. They don't build them like they use too. . They could...but there's just no money in it. Not only did things last longer...but you could go in and fix things easier to enable them to last even longer. You may remember small appliance repair shops. People that couldn't fix things on their own would actually take toasters, coffee pots and other small household appliances in for repairs. Now...we just toss it and go buy another cheap piece of Chinese crap. My uncle could and still can fix most any of those old items now as long as he can find parts. He still uses a toaster from the 60's that my grandmother used to use. He even has AND still uses an old GE refrigerator freezer that his ex mother-in-law purchased in the 50's. It's a no frost build up model that he changed the motor in the late 70's and still runs great to this date almost 60 years later. How can any money be tossed around when you can keep your toasters and refrigerators running for half a century? Even with cars it was easier. Now...to change my alternator...I have to disconnect hoses and even belts that have nothing to do with the alternator. It's all about the Benjamins and the crooks running the companies now.  |
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| Tampa Heather User ID: 29205298 United States07/09/2014 02:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA’s Voyager I is now in interstellar space, making it the first and farthest human-made space probe. New measurements of solar tsunami waves drew the scientists to formulate the conclusion. Quoting: TeamUFO [link to rt.com] From the article: " “Normally, interstellar space is like a quiet lake,” said Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the mission's project scientist since 1972 in a statement released on NASA’s website. " ~ ~ ~ Assumptions are not facts. How the fuck would they know how interstellar space is? Based on what? Certainly not from first hand experience or data gathered again and again over a long length of time. Science is such bullshit and yet they present their theories as fact. They have no clue what they are doing or even what they are deciphering from it. The true nature of the universe is beyond their primitive and biased scope. Humans may have entire spectrums of senses that are unknown to them. Literally flying blind. I mean, they aren't even "there" in person, yet I'm supposed to take their word for it. To assume billions of years of information, based on decades of primitive and limited science that is akin to "poking" around and guessing! Pfft. Please. Science, much like all else in this fallen world has become a fucking joke. To believe anything they say without question makes you a deaf, dumb and blind fool. MEOW! You tell 'em :) What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 60075262 United States07/09/2014 02:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have an idea, maybe they just shouldn't tell you anything at all. Maybe a test should be required to read any NASA publication at all. If you don't demonstrate basic logic and scientific literacy, you're barred from reading it to keep people from twisting the words contained within. Quoting: Dr. Astro Fuckin' aye. Give the tards a sentence, and they spin a myth from it. |
| Guess Who2 User ID: 2257450 United States07/09/2014 03:04 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know it is just a machine Quoting: davId 39253629 but it is so tiny, in the great scope of things on some indefinable level, is there some sense of self? so far from home, so far from anything and the missives it sends to it's origin, do they contain a glimpse of the cold yawning chasms that lie before it. is there a poignant hint of homesickness in the little voice that whispers back to us over inestimable leagues? perhaps i imagine too much still though... Cool take on it! |
| LogicBomber User ID: 2620180 United States07/09/2014 03:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know it is just a machine Quoting: davId 39253629 but it is so tiny, in the great scope of things on some indefinable level, is there some sense of self? so far from home, so far from anything and the missives it sends to it's origin, do they contain a glimpse of the cold yawning chasms that lie before it. is there a poignant hint of homesickness in the little voice that whispers back to us over inestimable leagues? perhaps i imagine too much still though...  The universe is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them. The Rickest Rick Sanchez comments are meant for entertainment purposes only and should not be construed to reflect the feelings and opinions, implied or expressed, of the author. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 60054431 United States07/09/2014 03:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This thing is still running after what 40+ years? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 60071064 Good thing they keep the 80 year supply of power for themselves. /sarcasm That's what I was wondering too. What are nuclear batteries that last for 40 years? Some kind of over unity device that NASA has had since the 70's while rest of the world thinks we are in perpetual "energy crisis". There is a YouTube video of this old timer involved in 50s and 60s atomic work, his story is crazy, but sortbof makes since. Its all the radioactive "waste" he says which will be worth millions an ounce, and they're stockpiling the finite supply so that they can co tinue their energy monopoly j to the future |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 39508180 United States07/09/2014 03:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA’s Voyager I is now in interstellar space, making it the first and farthest human-made space probe. New measurements of solar tsunami waves drew the scientists to formulate the conclusion. Quoting: TeamUFO [link to rt.com] From the article: " “Normally, interstellar space is like a quiet lake,” said Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the mission's project scientist since 1972 in a statement released on NASA’s website. " ~ ~ ~ Assumptions are not facts. How the fuck would they know how interstellar space is? Based on what? Based on Voyager 1 which has been in interstellar space for a while now? Maybe you should have thought of that before starting your tirade? They're just trying to relate to lay people the difference between interstellar space under normal conditions vs interstellar space when a CME shockwave from the sun comes through. How is Voyager 1 in interstellar space when it will not even reach the Oort Cloud for another 14,000-28,000 years? |
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