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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since no one has pointed this out yet I will take honors of admitting I know this. Veeger (was that how it was spelt?) was not from an episode but from the motion picture lol and as much as I think on it I am sure that was the only startrek episode with anything like that in it lol.

"Vger" was the name given by the automoton because the other letters of VOYAGER were encrusted over with some kind of "space muck". It was supposed to be a fictional Voyager 6 spacecraft, which never existed (there were only Voyager I and II). The Voyager spacecraft were contemporary to the release of Star Trek Motion Picture. They were both launched in 1977, which I think was about 2 years before Trek was released, and they had both completed flybys of the planet Jupiter in 1979. Even though it was a fictional craft, it appeared to be closely modeled after the Voyager I and II probes.

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