03-17-2011, 07:15 PM
(03-17-2011, 05:15 AM)NigsWhittington Wrote:(03-16-2011, 05:59 PM)Cracker Wrote: They weren't built with the good stuff.
Dude, this was the 70's. Everything was built AMAZINGLY because back then humans were SMART. Ever read about the Voyager space probe? That motherfucker was designed to take pictures of our surrounding planets, which is did with spectacular results. It then carried on to leave our sweet ass solar system, spinning around to take one last look at our system and radio back fuckwin photos.
My point here?
The main computer is fried. The main radio equipment is fried. It's radiator is fried. The tiny little probe is running on backup equipment with no way of heating itself and a fission plant strapped on that's STILL running even today. We still receive reports and its current mission is to detect how far the suns photons actually travel. This is a probe that *should* be fucked by now. It was never expected to get this far or be still usable. 70's engineering is the tits and balls of the world.
Now kindly cease your silly scaremongering tactics.
Seriously? That is your answer?
There are two Voyagers, numbnuts. They are NOT powered by nuclear fission reactors, you dumbass, but by a type of battery powered by a pellet of plutonium that decays. Jesus Christ you are stupid. Like we strapped Three Mile Island on the back of a fucking space probe and shot it into space. You don't know the difference between a thermocouple and a nuclear fission reactor. If you need me to explain it to you, let me know.
We DID expect it to "get this far" because it is powered by gravity (gravity sling). It will travel indefinitely until it gets taken out by a piece of cosmic debris or gets sucked into an object's gravitational field.
Just stop. I think you're stupid at this point.