Humanity on the brink of interstellar travel

[Captain Seafort]

Voyager 1 is approaching the heliopause

Very cool.

[Lighthawk]

I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.

First thing we need to do upon developing an FTL is go collect Voy 1. That'd make a hell of a museum piece.

[SolkaTruesilver]

I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.

That old piece of figurative crap with less computing power than my calculator has been working 15 times longer than my last cellphone.

[shran]

I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.

First thing we need to do upon developing an FTL is go collect Voy 1. That'd make a hell of a museum piece.

No, the Klingons will need it for target practice.

[Mikey]

I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.

That old piece of figurative crap with less computing power than my calculator has been working 15 times longer than my last cellphone.

That's because your provider can't count on squeezing more money out of you by building obsolescence into a space probe - but they can with your phone.

[SolkaTruesilver]

I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.

That old piece of figurative crap with less computing power than my calculator has been working 15 times longer than my last cellphone.

That's because your provider can't count on squeezing more money out of you by building obsolescence into a space probe - but they can with your phone.

You argument makes economical sense. But the irony is still biting hard.

Anyway, Shran, I am sorry to pop your lightbulb, but by the time of The final Frontier, Voyager 1 would have done about 2/3 of a lightyear of travel, which is not even a quarter of the way to the NEAREST Star System.

If you want the K to blast it, we're gonna have to haul it ourselves near their territory.

[shran]

Then what did the klingons shoot to pieces in the Final Frontier?

[Captain Seafort]

Then what did the klingons shoot to pieces in the Final Frontier?

Pioneer 10.

[SolkaTruesilver]

Then what did the klingons shoot to pieces in the Final Frontier?

Pioneer 10.

Wouldn't it be about the same distance, taken from SFDebris's review opinion?

[Captain Seafort]

It would, but this is the same film that thinks the centre of the galaxy is a strange glowing cloud instead of a black hole, and a series that has the galaxy jam-packed with wierd stuff. Realism isn't exactly the number-one priority.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Hmm, a Voyager that's actually cool? Who would've thunk it?

[Teaos]

Aparently it was cross and be crossed by it several times as interstellar pressure shifts the heliosphere backwards and forwards to, It may be crossing it for a couple of years.