03-18-2011, 01:47 AM
(03-17-2011, 07:15 PM)Cracker Wrote: 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.
My apologies for using laymen terms. I seem to have offended you by my constructive use of the English language and for that I simply couldn't give a fuck less. When I said "We didn't expect it to get this far" I wasn't talking about a trajectory. It's well understood that even when the fucking thing is dead it's not going to stop moving.
Feel free to continue picking at my posts while missing the point entirely.
You appear to have mad skillz in this department.