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All right, space junkies.
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NASA has confirmed. It has received a message from an interstellar
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traveler as more than 15 billion miles away from earth.
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And the message was good news and it wasn't from e 15
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billion miles away and still sending messages.
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That kind of sounds like an annoying ex-boyfriend brother Yikes.
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Well, this ex-boyfriend is actually Voyager one and he had everyone
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sweating last month, the spacecraft went dark trying to turn on
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the heater mission control here on earth,
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waited for its usual check in and got ghosted.
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Oh, yeah, the heater,
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right. It's cold up there.
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It is. I can only imagine.
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So Voyager One then uses backup radio transmitter that hasn't been used
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since 1981 to send a message back to earth which engineers picked
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what could have avoided this?
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He could have took Covia San Marcos spray maybe two maybe
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But my guy is almost 50 years old and 15.4 billion miles
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from earth. Holding on for dear life.
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But still checking in.
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You see, you never get too old to check in brother
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There's no excuses if he wanted to.
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He would anyways. Now they're working to get Voyager back to
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normal. But let's be real.
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It's explored for planets,
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right? 48 moons and it's currently speeding through interstellar space at
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over 38,000 MPH. Dang.
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Might be time to let Voyager retire.
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But on another note,
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why can't they make products that last this long on earth?
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You know, like my guy up in space,
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dealing with all the space elements and still kicking while I'm on
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my eighth pair of airpods.
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Damn dude. Eight manches.
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But even though it has a few watts of power left each
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year, NASA hopes that Voyager will keep going until 2025 or
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beyond. But the closer it gets,
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the more cautious they have to be as Voyager project manager says
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every move now is a big deal.
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Props to the engineers man.
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Like I'm just glad it's not like the submarine.
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Oh, yeah. Props to these engineers.
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Cheers to Voyager. The little spacecraft that's still got a little
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