Out of the Blue

Pioneer 10 calls home on birthday is one of many interesting links passed along for today by AndyS. Aren't these probes supposed to start transforming themselves into doomsday devices soon? I remember the plot of at least one Star Trek episode as well as Star Trek: The Motion Picture (veeger) centered around just that. I guess that shouldn't be the most likely scenario, but it seems more plausible than still being able to contact this thing 30 years later.

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I think it's pretty neat that we are actually able to communicate with the thing from such a far distance. Goes to show how much thought and workmanship went into building it. Too bad the cameras don't work on it would be kinda neat to see what (if anything) is out there.

Maybe some day we'll have some kind of spacecraft to be able to catch up to it...
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