... But Where Is Persis Khambatta?

[filkertom]

Voyager 1 has left the system. I would say amazing cool things about it, but the article actually handles that juuuuuuust fine.

(h/t ladystarblade)

This entry was originally posted at http://filkertom.dreamwidth.org/1530939.html. You may comment there or here, although LJ tends to have a livelier conversation at this time.

Comments

[acelightning]

Both Persis Khambatta and Carl Sagan are gone... but both Voyagers still fly on, brave little messengers declaring to the stars that a dirtball in one otherwise unremarkable solar system has given rise to creatures with a sense of curiosity...

[alverant]

It makes you realize how small we are and how big the distances really are. Thirty five years, that's almost a lifetime for some of us and it's just about to hit interstellar space. All that time and it takes light just 16 hours to pass it. At that rate it would take about 19,175 YEARS to make it one light year. I won't even calculate how long it would take to reach the nearest solar system at that speed (assuming it was headed in the right direction).

But this is truly a crowning achievement of humanity. No matter what we do to this planet, some bit of us will continue to live on

[archiver_tim]

Now, if the ones finding it have to call Tech Support because they can't figure out how to play that golden record....

[gardnerhill]

I rather like the SNL prediction of the single four-word response from space to the greeting record: Send More Chuck Berry.

[smparadox]

The longest-lived artifact of humanity - when the sun goes red giant and erases the Earth itself, Voyager could still be out there, falling between the stars...