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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Re: Good ol Nasa
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Maybe some day we'll have some kind of spacecraft to be able to catch up to it...

Pioneer 11 and one of the Voyager (probably Voyager 2, since it visited all 4 gas giants) will be in the Smithsonian Air & Space museum give a century or so...

Pioneer 10 will likely not be returned to earth because it was the first interplanetary spaceprobe launched that was intended to leave the solar system. It will be left to pursue its interstellar journey as a symbolic gesture. After all, it does have that plack on it that shows anyone who may find it how to find their way to solar system.

Jim
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