Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft

The Dread Pirate · 13 May 2010 at 16:49

They're trying to return Glenn Miller! :eek:

wonko · 13 May 2010 at 16:57

Maybe the battery was bought from Woolworths?
(That should be a bit more obscure than the trek references...

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ChrisJSY · 13 May 2010 at 17:05

naffa said:
Am I the ONLY person that thought....

JEFF BRIDGES!!1

Green go. Red stop. Orange go faster.
Watched this 2 days ago again in fact

Amp34 · 13 May 2010 at 17:12

dustiestrat said:
Earthlings! Do you like the music of shawoddywoddy?

Spunkey said:
Is anyone else thinking of Star Trek:TMP?

Where the Voyager probe goes through a black hole, gets reprogrammed by aliens and becomes sentient and returns to destroy Earth.

Just me?

Maybe it's the start of it creating the Borg! :eek:

sunama · 13 May 2010 at 17:12

100% it has to be aliens.
There is absolutely no other feasible explanation for this.

Expect to come under heavy Alien attack, soon.

Rameses · 13 May 2010 at 18:28

Has anyone phoned Fox Mulder?

Sonea Fifer · 13 May 2010 at 18:30

It must be Aliens.

They've been reading our tinternet and they're coming here looking to see how they can "Get ripped in 6 weeks"

dpbadger · 13 May 2010 at 18:34

Its the Quagaar civilisation . They have found us at last..
Dave

arknor · 13 May 2010 at 18:48

okay now im convinced its terrorists! osama bin laden is on the moon!

kevy1986 · 13 May 2010 at 19:01

I think I know what it sent back !

Strife212 · 13 May 2010 at 19:03

How on earth do they recieve a signal from it anyway given the distances? It can't have a very powerful transmitter.

jak731 · 13 May 2010 at 19:18

magick said:
More than likely.

You mean to say you are confident that it is more likely that intelligent life has found the voyager 2 and reprogrammed it rather than it is suffering a malfunction? You are an ignoramous.

Current best estimates using the drake equation suggest we are likely the only intelligent life in this galaxy. Then you have to take the scale of everything into account to realise what you are saying is pure ridiculous.

Tefal · 13 May 2010 at 19:23

isn't the drake equation basically a load of BS with nearly every stage based on assumption and guess work?

Antar Bolaeisk · 13 May 2010 at 19:28

wonko said:
Maybe the battery was bought from Woolworths?
(That should be a bit more obscure than the trek references... )

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Strife212 said:
How on earth do they recieve a signal from it anyway given the distances? It can't have a very powerful transmitter.

They have really, really big dishes to pick up the signals. Plus I'd imagine it helps that the signal is travelling through a vacuum.

mrk · 13 May 2010 at 19:33

It's 8.7 billion miles away and takes 13 hours for messages to send and receive (each way).

8.7 billion miles from here. Hard to imagine.

Alex_6n2 · 13 May 2010 at 19:42

arknor said:
using human technology maybe but you can possibly fathom the types of technology we will have in 100 years never mind what type of technology an alien race may have

Errr it's not a case of technology levels, it's a case of physics. The total area of space in which the signals between the Earth and Voyager are bouncing back and forth will be some ridiculously tiny fraction of the whole. You can't just "know" a signal is there, you have to receive it. :/

wonko · 13 May 2010 at 19:43

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

A good guess, but it was from an old Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch (I did say it was obscure)

Kristoph · 13 May 2010 at 19:45

Khaaan! said:
It's 8.7 billion miles away and takes 13 hours for messages to send and receive (each way).

8.7 billion miles from here. Hard to imagine.

At the speed of light it takes around 13 hours to travel that sort of distance... :eek:

Antar Bolaeisk · 13 May 2010 at 19:48

wonko said:
A good guess, but it was from an old Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch (I did say it was obscure)

Far too obscure for me, never even heard of it.

Kristoph · 13 May 2010 at 19:52

jak731 said:
Current best estimates using the drake equation suggest we are likely the only intelligent life in this galaxy. Then you have to take the scale of everything into account to realise what you are saying is pure ridiculous.

Current estimates state there are around 125 billion galaxies in our universe..

This just makes your mind boggle even more.. (from last year)

Astronomers have spotted the most distant object yet confirmed in the universe – a self-destructing star that exploded 13.1 billion light years from Earth. It detonated just 630 million years after the big bang, around the end of the cosmic "dark ages", when the first stars and galaxies were lighting up space.

That explosion or burst, took 13.1 billion years to reach us!

That's about 77,009,992,388,705,264,808,608.700999238870526e+22 Miles away!?

And whatever happens today in that distant part of the universe wont even be visible for another 13.1 billion years.