Voyager 1 has been sending a stream of garbled nonsense since November. Now NASA engineers have identified the fault and found a potential workaround.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @astro_penguin 6 Apr 2024
I'm somewhat disappointed that it hadn't been assimilated by an alien probe.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 6 Apr 2024
How do you expect them to prove such a claim
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @astro_penguin 6 Apr 2024
It would certainly be difficult at that distance. They would definitely have needed to get photographs or something.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 OP 6 Apr 2024
They are hardly able to transmit an "gibberish" data stream how about video or photo.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @astro_penguin 6 Apr 2024
I'm aware, but that would be most likely the only way to find out for sure.
My initial comment was just a reference to the fictional Voyager 6 probe merging with an alien entity in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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