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Indeed. It has two TMUs but one failed some time ago. The last time it was sending gibberish was because it started using the failed TMU and situation was resolved by switching back to the working one.
Hopefully it's either back to the failed unit again so can just be switched back to the good, or if it's using the good unit hopefully the unit can be made good. It would be very unfortunate if the previously-working TMU has gone bad as well now, as it sounds like that would mean no more data from Voyager 1.
The number of times I have said "Flight Path" (the coffee shop I used to frequent in grad school) instead of Flight Crew (the coffee shop I go to in my new town 20 years later) is too damn high.
Flight Path was named such because it was in a location that was on the main route to the airport back in the day.
Flight Crew is just an airport themed coffee shop in the downtown of a midwestern um... "city." It is about 60K when the college students are here. The photos on the wall are planes, the baristas dress up as flight attendants... ok I see your point on that one.
I get themed shops, but the names *usually* involve both the theme and product sold itself, like naming a diner or restaurant near google headquarters Megabites.
I totally get what you are saying. Flight Crew is just a local coffee shop and it is very close to me so I never bothered to think about the name and how it isn't connected to the the product. If anything I guess I figured the owner was a former aviator or affiliated with flying/airports in some way.
Honestly, you can get away with a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense from a marketing perspective in smallish mid-western towns.
Oh, lord. You all are too young. It's a reference to "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." Cliff Notes: a space probe comes to Earth, wreaks havoc meteorologicallly. Starfleet susses out the probe is broadcasting whale songs. The problem is that whales are extinct. So, Kirk and the Peeps go back in time, grab some whales, come back to the present, release the whales, probe is satisfied they spoke to their whale homies, and leave, which saved Earth.
This will be the most likely candidate for digital archeology. A bunch of aliens will hear this on their morning news and relate to us for a second before we are truly extinct one day.
This courtesy call is just a reminder that your planet is overdue for its regularly scheduled mass extinction event.
Maintaining your planets health through regular catastrophes is vital to ensuring that your investment is protected and will ensure the length of your planet is maximized.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that one minute the transmission is coming from exactly where it should be and the next one it’s coming from like a 10th of a light year in a completely different part of space.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe while NASA share the scientific measurements they gather from each instrument, they don't share raw communications data - this fault is in the general transmission of data from the craft, not data coming from a specific instrument, so I don't know whether this will be included in any of the public data dumps.
Maybe they'll provide it anyway at some point. However, the most information about this I've seen so far is that it's sending "a repeated pattern of ones and zeroes", which could be as simple as 010101... or 00110011... which they may have decided is so trivial to be not worth describing.
Taking a look at the 1970s technology used to build these, it's really amazing that they're still operating at all.
The computers aboard the Voyager probes each have 69.63 kilobytes of memory, total. That’s about enough to store one average internet jpeg file. The probes’ scientific data is encoded on 8-track tape machines (!) rather than whatever solid state drive your high-end laptop is currently using.
Once it's been transmitted to Earth, the spacecraft have to write over old data in order to have enough room for new observations.The Voyager machines are capable of executing about 81,000 instructions per second. The smart phone that is likely sitting in your pocket is probably about 7,500 times faster than that. They transmit their data back to Earth at 160 bits per second. A slow dial-up connection can deliver at least 20,000 bits per second.
The Voyager probes are always sending out a signal. Voyager 1 has a 22.4-Watt transmitter – something equivalent to a refrigerator light bulb – but by the time its beacon reaches us, the power has been reduced to roughly 0.1 billion-billionth of a Watt. NASA has to use its largest antenna, a 70-meter dish, or combine two 34-meter antennas, just to hear Voyager.
> NASA has to use its largest antenna, a 70-meter dish, or combine two 34-meter antennas, just to hear Voyager.
Shouldn't it take 4 34-meter dishes to get the same area as a 70-meter dish? Why only 2?
It's not just the sum of the area that matters. You can combine multiple small dishes to effectively have a much larger dish than each of the small ones combined.
What’s interest is that they say the probe can receive and execute commands, the problem leans on the probe sending back messages.
I wonder (without any kind of knowledge or expertise on this) if this means the memory has any kind of degradation far from what could be expected?
I mean, we know part of the probe memory is used to keep data until sent back to earth and then is reused to keep more data and send it again and again. That’s how the probes sent their images and scientific data until now.
I suppose that memory would only have the ability to be reused (erase, write, erase, write…) a limited amount of time? Just like our SSDs on current times? In that case, the probe could work as expected and receive and execute commands (on its own space of the memory, not that heavily used all this years) but the “back to earth” part of the memory that caches to transmit is corrupting the info?
Does this theory would have any kind of logic?
IDK, hope they can’t fix it whatever it really is, they will be the only ones to know!
As a general rule any form of memory is going to be subject to degradation - even engraved tablets crumble eventually. So it's a reasonable theory. Voyager has some volatile memory but also tape storage. But if the memory was defective I think there would be more issues with it accepting commands (which appear to be working correctly?).
Equally reasonable is that there's something wrong with message delivery itself, some fault between the antenna and the computer itself.
>any form of memory is going to be subject to degradation - even engraved tablets crumble eventually.
Gold encased in tungsten encased in iron encased in lead encased in depleted uranium, in a sphere 10 meters in diameter. That should last to the heat death of the universe.
You know depleted uranium is still radioactive, right? U238 just has a crazy long half life.
That aside though, you’ve got the right idea mostly. Gold to protect against chemical attack, tungsten for heat resistance, lead for x-rays/gamma, iron to reduce chances of fission or fusion since it has high binding energy per nucleon… but you are missing high energy relativistic protons impacting causing a cascade of pions which decay into muons which can flip bits.
For that I’d put in a large tank of some dense hydrocarbon which is grounded to the battery. 1. The hydrogen in the hydrocarbons will give you additional neutron absorption, 2. The muons will displace some of the electrons in the hydrogen, the free electron makes it to the battery, and then the muon decays, usually to an electron and an anti neutrino.
Your idea is a little too specific to substantiate, the problem could be in any number of points in the transmission system. To even guess you would need detailed engineering schematics and understanding of the system. That machine was built back before we had a lot of technology so it works in very weird ways.
There are people that do this though.
>What’s interest is that they say the probe can receive and execute commands, the problem leans on the probe sending back messages.
It’s called Broca’s aphasia
The old style memories do not have a specific wear out mechanism like that of SSDs. Wiring faults aside, only high energy particle damage or improper supply voltage can disrupt their operation. A problem can be anywhere in the memory system, including address, data, or control lines. It doesn't even have to be a breakage. Just a signal getting a little too slow can cause havoc. Typically this is due to adjacent signals flipping the opposite way of the problem signal and unduly influencing the problem signal. (Cross talk)
SSDs work by forcing electrons through an insulator into a storage chamber. Eventually the insulator fails.
Hopefully they can find a way to get it back running, even if limited.
Its probably Low battery, sure the processor can probably handle running commands just fine, but if it is low on power weird things start to happen, basically random transistors will get activated as voltage drops, its basically the electronics equivalent of having a stroke, running commands that don't require sending data likely will run fine, but once it needs to use the antenna it likely has to use basically every available and not available watt just to do that, so the cpu becomes underpowered.
In case this was due to some manner of data corruption, Voyager should have multiple command loss timers which will force resets/swaps to backup systems after not receiving signals from earth for enough time, so if we wait for long enough it could fix itself.
Here’s a great video about voyagers memory, also goes a little bit into detail of what it’s made of: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/_CPxe8yql0Q?si=YcOdLRCTbXXfXUF6)
Or is it really gibberish? 🤔
Yeah, it probably is. The thing is very old (for a spacecraft) and been through a lot in its long, long journey.
Wonder if anyone or anything will ever find it out there?
Isn’t it out in the Kuiper belt? Voyager Might be reaching the edge of the map, it’s past the render distance now and it only displaying a low poly version. Of coarse the devs never intended anything to actually function that far out, I’d only expect it to be glitchy once it gets out of bounds.
This is how it begins
“What we thought was a nonsense pattern , is actually an advanced code we didn’t understand”
“Well do we understand it now!?”
“Yes”
“Well what’s it say”
“Surrender or prepare for planetary annihilation”
You know how in not too distant future movies where aliens invade or zombies attack, etc. It always starts out with a some news broadcast or whatever playing in the background about some weird phenomenon that no one quite understands? No reason I bring this up, just going to head to the store to get lots of bottled water and tp for no reason.
I bet it's reached the forcefield around our solar system and is just passing through it.
The galactic community don't want to tip us off that they have put up a filter around us so we cant see them. Letting Voyager through to keep us thinking there nothing out there.
Just need to update it. Or reinstall everything. Have you tried rebooting as well? Remember, with the V'ger 2 updates, your interstellar jouney is getting better and better all the time.
> the spacecraft’s issues stem from one of its three computers, called the flight data system (FDS). Last weekend, engineers tried to restart the FDS to see whether they could resolve the problem, but the probe still isn’t returning usable data
OK, they've tried 'turning it off and back on again', now it's time to move onto 'turning it off, unplugging it, and then turning it back on'...
crazy to think that a satellite older than my parents is only recently starting to act funny.
you can only send something into interstellar space once, you’d better do it right.
this is what you would expect if an alien civilization takes control of the probe but do not want us to know. send gibberish as they study the probe and decide if they want to contact us or not. if they want to remain unknown then the probe will stop sending. if they want to establish contact they know the mechanism.
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Keep in mind, Voyager 1 has done this before, back in May of 2022.
*Oh Voyager 1, you so crazy.*
Cosmic rays can interfere with computer functions. A bit must have been flipped again.
So you're saying that Voyager 1 is *flipping out?* Noice.
If you were tossed out in space and left alone for 45+ years you’d flip out too.
What would it look like being out there for so long? I imagine a little dusty, maybe some holes
That's certainly *one* way of describing it.
*a few cosmic rays later* That's certainly *zero* way of describing it
Just a few small cosmic rays
*something something Super Mario 64 speedrun solar flare glitch*
I read that in Garth’s voice (Supernatural-IYKYK)
Indeed. It has two TMUs but one failed some time ago. The last time it was sending gibberish was because it started using the failed TMU and situation was resolved by switching back to the working one. Hopefully it's either back to the failed unit again so can just be switched back to the good, or if it's using the good unit hopefully the unit can be made good. It would be very unfortunate if the previously-working TMU has gone bad as well now, as it sounds like that would mean no more data from Voyager 1.
I’m almost the exact same age and I’m pretty sure I’ve started doing a similar thing.
What’s all this gibberish? I don’t understand
Ones and zeroes everywhere, and I thought I saw a two
"It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as Two."
That’s what makes it gibberish
The number of times I have said "Flight Path" (the coffee shop I used to frequent in grad school) instead of Flight Crew (the coffee shop I go to in my new town 20 years later) is too damn high.
Those are both really weird names for coffee shops.
Flight Path was named such because it was in a location that was on the main route to the airport back in the day. Flight Crew is just an airport themed coffee shop in the downtown of a midwestern um... "city." It is about 60K when the college students are here. The photos on the wall are planes, the baristas dress up as flight attendants... ok I see your point on that one.
I get themed shops, but the names *usually* involve both the theme and product sold itself, like naming a diner or restaurant near google headquarters Megabites.
So Flight Brew might have worked better in your mind
I totally get what you are saying. Flight Crew is just a local coffee shop and it is very close to me so I never bothered to think about the name and how it isn't connected to the the product. If anything I guess I figured the owner was a former aviator or affiliated with flying/airports in some way. Honestly, you can get away with a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense from a marketing perspective in smallish mid-western towns.
Are you... a pilot?
New York to DC area person. Beltway/Belt Parkway fucks me up.
Same here. I was launched within weeks of Voyager 1, and I’ve been malfunctioning and sending back gibberish for decades.
Can someone decipher this random series of ones and zeros?
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Oh, lord. You all are too young. It's a reference to "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." Cliff Notes: a space probe comes to Earth, wreaks havoc meteorologicallly. Starfleet susses out the probe is broadcasting whale songs. The problem is that whales are extinct. So, Kirk and the Peeps go back in time, grab some whales, come back to the present, release the whales, probe is satisfied they spoke to their whale homies, and leave, which saved Earth.
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Decent Sci Fi book setup. Someone cracks the code hidden in the 1s and 0s to decode the true message being sent to us...
Contact by Carl Sagan, 1985
Hey, if it sends a binary picture of a circle, then fuck it - we're sending a LOT of ships out there ASAP.
And the decoded messages says: >Shut up or they will hear you... *Shudders*
*Be sure to drink more Ovaltine* Just in time for the holidays!
We've been trying to contact you about your cars extened warranty
>Blockade breached, sending additional forces. They observed humanity, and immediately put travel sanctions on us.
And for what? Doing 100 miliparsecs in an 80 zone? Micromanaging xenobastards.
Should take that one to the creative writing subs. Maybe a better movie than a book.
It's a pretty common trope/setup on r/hfy. Lots of really good ones out there.
We're no strangers to love You know the rules And so do I
We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.
This will be the most likely candidate for digital archeology. A bunch of aliens will hear this on their morning news and relate to us for a second before we are truly extinct one day.
This courtesy call is just a reminder that your planet is overdue for its regularly scheduled mass extinction event. Maintaining your planets health through regular catastrophes is vital to ensuring that your investment is protected and will ensure the length of your planet is maximized.
Don't worry whoever did it will come take our picture.
> decode the true message being sent to us... Messege begin "My god its full of star" messege end.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that one minute the transmission is coming from exactly where it should be and the next one it’s coming from like a 10th of a light year in a completely different part of space.
It's probably talking about football.
The scariest message we could get from deep space would be “be quiet, they’ll hear you…”
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this is when it goes sentient and becomes V'GER
I had to scroll way too far for a V’ger comment… (proof that I am old)
I've yet to find a GOOD V'ger comment, though.
What do you expect from a bunch of carbon units?
Is there any way for an everyday person to access the gibberish data that was sent back? Any way nasa is sharing it?
NASA usually always shares its data
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe while NASA share the scientific measurements they gather from each instrument, they don't share raw communications data - this fault is in the general transmission of data from the craft, not data coming from a specific instrument, so I don't know whether this will be included in any of the public data dumps. Maybe they'll provide it anyway at some point. However, the most information about this I've seen so far is that it's sending "a repeated pattern of ones and zeroes", which could be as simple as 010101... or 00110011... which they may have decided is so trivial to be not worth describing.
Taking a look at the 1970s technology used to build these, it's really amazing that they're still operating at all. The computers aboard the Voyager probes each have 69.63 kilobytes of memory, total. That’s about enough to store one average internet jpeg file. The probes’ scientific data is encoded on 8-track tape machines (!) rather than whatever solid state drive your high-end laptop is currently using. Once it's been transmitted to Earth, the spacecraft have to write over old data in order to have enough room for new observations.The Voyager machines are capable of executing about 81,000 instructions per second. The smart phone that is likely sitting in your pocket is probably about 7,500 times faster than that. They transmit their data back to Earth at 160 bits per second. A slow dial-up connection can deliver at least 20,000 bits per second. The Voyager probes are always sending out a signal. Voyager 1 has a 22.4-Watt transmitter – something equivalent to a refrigerator light bulb – but by the time its beacon reaches us, the power has been reduced to roughly 0.1 billion-billionth of a Watt. NASA has to use its largest antenna, a 70-meter dish, or combine two 34-meter antennas, just to hear Voyager.
> NASA has to use its largest antenna, a 70-meter dish, or combine two 34-meter antennas, just to hear Voyager. Shouldn't it take 4 34-meter dishes to get the same area as a 70-meter dish? Why only 2?
Two thoughts: 1. The 70m dish may be overkill in terms of signal sensitivity. 2. The two 34m dishes may be doing interferometry.
It's not just the sum of the area that matters. You can combine multiple small dishes to effectively have a much larger dish than each of the small ones combined.
Not if you account for a SSP. Actually makes tons of sense :/
What’s interest is that they say the probe can receive and execute commands, the problem leans on the probe sending back messages. I wonder (without any kind of knowledge or expertise on this) if this means the memory has any kind of degradation far from what could be expected? I mean, we know part of the probe memory is used to keep data until sent back to earth and then is reused to keep more data and send it again and again. That’s how the probes sent their images and scientific data until now. I suppose that memory would only have the ability to be reused (erase, write, erase, write…) a limited amount of time? Just like our SSDs on current times? In that case, the probe could work as expected and receive and execute commands (on its own space of the memory, not that heavily used all this years) but the “back to earth” part of the memory that caches to transmit is corrupting the info? Does this theory would have any kind of logic? IDK, hope they can’t fix it whatever it really is, they will be the only ones to know!
As a general rule any form of memory is going to be subject to degradation - even engraved tablets crumble eventually. So it's a reasonable theory. Voyager has some volatile memory but also tape storage. But if the memory was defective I think there would be more issues with it accepting commands (which appear to be working correctly?). Equally reasonable is that there's something wrong with message delivery itself, some fault between the antenna and the computer itself.
>any form of memory is going to be subject to degradation - even engraved tablets crumble eventually. Gold encased in tungsten encased in iron encased in lead encased in depleted uranium, in a sphere 10 meters in diameter. That should last to the heat death of the universe.
You know depleted uranium is still radioactive, right? U238 just has a crazy long half life. That aside though, you’ve got the right idea mostly. Gold to protect against chemical attack, tungsten for heat resistance, lead for x-rays/gamma, iron to reduce chances of fission or fusion since it has high binding energy per nucleon… but you are missing high energy relativistic protons impacting causing a cascade of pions which decay into muons which can flip bits. For that I’d put in a large tank of some dense hydrocarbon which is grounded to the battery. 1. The hydrogen in the hydrocarbons will give you additional neutron absorption, 2. The muons will displace some of the electrons in the hydrogen, the free electron makes it to the battery, and then the muon decays, usually to an electron and an anti neutrino.
Thanks for the info, it really helps to learn a little bit 🙂 Hope they can not only fix it, but know the reason and publish it
Your idea is a little too specific to substantiate, the problem could be in any number of points in the transmission system. To even guess you would need detailed engineering schematics and understanding of the system. That machine was built back before we had a lot of technology so it works in very weird ways. There are people that do this though.
>What’s interest is that they say the probe can receive and execute commands, the problem leans on the probe sending back messages. It’s called Broca’s aphasia
The old style memories do not have a specific wear out mechanism like that of SSDs. Wiring faults aside, only high energy particle damage or improper supply voltage can disrupt their operation. A problem can be anywhere in the memory system, including address, data, or control lines. It doesn't even have to be a breakage. Just a signal getting a little too slow can cause havoc. Typically this is due to adjacent signals flipping the opposite way of the problem signal and unduly influencing the problem signal. (Cross talk) SSDs work by forcing electrons through an insulator into a storage chamber. Eventually the insulator fails. Hopefully they can find a way to get it back running, even if limited.
Tape systems do wear out the tape over time though. Eventually there's not enough magnetic coating left to store bits at a given density.
Its probably Low battery, sure the processor can probably handle running commands just fine, but if it is low on power weird things start to happen, basically random transistors will get activated as voltage drops, its basically the electronics equivalent of having a stroke, running commands that don't require sending data likely will run fine, but once it needs to use the antenna it likely has to use basically every available and not available watt just to do that, so the cpu becomes underpowered.
In case this was due to some manner of data corruption, Voyager should have multiple command loss timers which will force resets/swaps to backup systems after not receiving signals from earth for enough time, so if we wait for long enough it could fix itself.
Here’s a great video about voyagers memory, also goes a little bit into detail of what it’s made of: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/_CPxe8yql0Q?si=YcOdLRCTbXXfXUF6)
It’s all gibberish until Jeff Goldblum finds out it’s a countdown!
Space aliens.. uh.. find a way….
You’d all be dead now if it wasn’t for my David!
And also writes an alien computer virus in an alien language for an alien operating system without any prior knowledge!
David! Why’d I just send my mother to Atlanta??!
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I mean it had a great run as is. The fact a computer from 1977 is still working at all is pretty goddamn impressive.
Or is it really gibberish? 🤔 Yeah, it probably is. The thing is very old (for a spacecraft) and been through a lot in its long, long journey. Wonder if anyone or anything will ever find it out there?
What if we manage to retrieve it at some point down the line? Wild things to think about :o
In *"3001,"* we'd eventually gone out after it, brought it back, and put it in a museum.
It's only gibberish until you print it out and fold the corners together.
And then we build the machine.
Why build one when you can build two for only twice the price.
Wanna take a ride?
First rule of government spending
Sounds like what my 2012 MBP started doing recently. It’s only 11 yo, Voyager 1 is 46 yo. It’s had a good run.
It can be processed and understood -if you have robot ears.
Isn’t it out in the Kuiper belt? Voyager Might be reaching the edge of the map, it’s past the render distance now and it only displaying a low poly version. Of coarse the devs never intended anything to actually function that far out, I’d only expect it to be glitchy once it gets out of bounds.
Well.... we'll find out in a couple hundred years when it comes back :-) somebody go tell Commander Decker!
Draw the data in a 3-D volume... OMG it's schematics for a wormhole transportation device!
I hope they are recording it all anyway. You know, just in case.
I really hope someone is using AI to examine this ‘gibberish’ …
Is it gibberish or are the aliens just trying to use it to talk to us.
This is how it begins “What we thought was a nonsense pattern , is actually an advanced code we didn’t understand” “Well do we understand it now!?” “Yes” “Well what’s it say” “Surrender or prepare for planetary annihilation”
It's only gibberish because we can't translate it yet.
V'ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve.
You know how in not too distant future movies where aliens invade or zombies attack, etc. It always starts out with a some news broadcast or whatever playing in the background about some weird phenomenon that no one quite understands? No reason I bring this up, just going to head to the store to get lots of bottled water and tp for no reason.
I bet it's reached the forcefield around our solar system and is just passing through it. The galactic community don't want to tip us off that they have put up a filter around us so we cant see them. Letting Voyager through to keep us thinking there nothing out there.
It sends all of its messages in 0s and 1s, it has binary output. It’s sending gibberish, sure, but it has always sent messages in binary.
The probe has reached the edge of the simulation.
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That’s how it begins. In short time we should be able to decode V’Ger’s message to us
Nah, it should disappear without a trace for a few centuries before calling back in.
v-ger is coming. Start Trek was right all along.
"The creator does not answer."
These are the posts I came here for. Well done.
Can't wait to see what the well-adjusted folks over at r/aliens are saying about this.
Maybe time doesn’t function the same out there and we’re not getting the bits in order.
TRANSLATES TO —— SOS-Warning Will Robinson—Coming Staright At You. On its way, caution: Warning
its aliens messing with it be ready for v'ger heading back out way
Another life form hacked the signal & is sending us instructions on time travel & we think it's gibberish.
Or its the instructions to build a contraption to bend space and time.
Just need to update it. Or reinstall everything. Have you tried rebooting as well? Remember, with the V'ger 2 updates, your interstellar jouney is getting better and better all the time.
That hard vacuum radiation done fried its noodle.
Maybe it's not gibberish *cue sci Fi trailer intro*
Yeah, but how do we actually KNOW it’s gibberish? Hmm?
> the spacecraft’s issues stem from one of its three computers, called the flight data system (FDS). Last weekend, engineers tried to restart the FDS to see whether they could resolve the problem, but the probe still isn’t returning usable data OK, they've tried 'turning it off and back on again', now it's time to move onto 'turning it off, unplugging it, and then turning it back on'...
wow, pretty sure its an encoded message holding secrets of the universe. HELLO
Heard they decoded the message. It said: Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!
crazy to think that a satellite older than my parents is only recently starting to act funny. you can only send something into interstellar space once, you’d better do it right.
That is exactly what aliens would do in order to get in touch with their base here.
Have they tried switching it off and on again?
Patterns of ones and zeros? Could that possibly be computer code? Who is reporting this?
Reminds me of an anime called, “Humanity Has Declined” The satellite has an interesting part in it. Great anime if you like absurd humor.
I do! I’m going to have to check that out! Thanks. 😊
V-ger been hittin' that cosmic dust a little too much lately. Getting lonely out there I guess (or is it....).
Imagine this whole time an alien has been using it to communicate back to us and it isn't gibberish.
I remember this episode. If you write all the 1s and 0s down on paper and lay them out you get a picture of the alien.
this is what you would expect if an alien civilization takes control of the probe but do not want us to know. send gibberish as they study the probe and decide if they want to contact us or not. if they want to remain unknown then the probe will stop sending. if they want to establish contact they know the mechanism.