Voyager 1: The Furthest Man-Made Object From Earth

[@megaprojects9649]

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[@highlander723]

No mention of the golden disc?!

[@JesusisJesus]

Captain Kirk picks up the V GER in about 300 years and then Captain Janeway does some crap to clean up the plutonium mess on the other side of the galaxy in about 400 years.

[@JesusisJesus]

@@highlander723 I know eh. But they didn’t send a radiogram cabinet to play it on, and would probably be nonsense to any being able to pluck it out of the universe. Have you ever listened to it? It’s kind of wacky. What if The Borg get hold of it, we’ve literally given them a map of where they can assimilate a few billion people.

[@alexismontalvo4301]

Sub in spanish ?

[@DanielMiller-fy5ip]

I am disappointed that you are perpetuating the misconception that Voyager has already left the solar system. The true edge of the solar system is thought to be as far out as 100,000AU, which marks the end of the Oort Cloud. solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overview/

[@greg_mid_tn3150]

My Father worked on the propulsion system of Voyager 1 and 2. He's gone, but a part of him is still flying. Go Voyagers!

[@NeptunianNeanderthal]

Something your father touched will still exist millions of years in the future. That’s incredible.

[@IanAlcorn]

LEGEND.

[@ZATennisFan]

Other than kids very few people actually get to leave something behind and your F ather definitely did that....

[@jonnunn4196]

@Mark Joseph A lot depends on density of the Oort Cloud. If it survives past that (roughly 300 years to reach and estimated 30K years to cross), it can potentially keep going until heat death of the universe.

[@ashiksaleem360]

what a marvelous achievement lad.

[@deathbower]

As an interstellar species, I would hope that the Voyager one museum was a spacecraft built around the probe as it flies through space so that it may continue its journey, even in its obsolecense.

[@ammaleslie509]

Well, the Enterprise crew finds it eventually, so...

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

well, as far as interstellar space travel is concerned, better have a beacon on that thing, or it may get cataloged as a navigation hazard to be eliminated by some interstellar ship's flight computer should it run across the path of another ship. tho could just get lost in the vastness of space to never be seen again. so probably best to go get it and put it in a museum where its location is known and kept track of, so it doesn't end up a bug-splat mark on some interstelar ship's forward partical shield, lol.

[@14o1chan]

That would be a testament to humanity's hubris.

[@jonnunn4196]

@@ammaleslie509 Some ET had to have stolen it for Enterprise to discover it outside our solar system. It's now estimated that it won't even reach the Oort Cloud for roughly another 300 years.

[@stevenwilliams1805]

While the idea of being it back seems cool, it feels just a but wrong.

[@BlackBirdLTU]

there's a story about when C.Sagan and his colleagues approached R.Nixon for a single Voyager mission budget explaining that it would be a historic opportunity because of how planets have been aligned. After listening to them, Nixon said: "Send two".

[@markreynolds1436]

This video says they were going to send 4 and cut it to 2.

[@wawerukamau6242]

@@markreynolds1436 I believe this was after the program was shut down in favour of the other one and they went to seek funding from Nixon.

[@vijayanchomatil8413]

Nice, but R.Nixon killed our opportunity to have a safe ubiquitous clean and abundant nuclear energy from Molten salt reactors. The world of today would be much different if he had the foresight to fund that.

[@crusherolies8195]

@@vijayanchomatil8413 did you know that currently the US wont fund LSTR because they want proof of concept even though they themselves, USA, had a working LSTR in the 70's. dont reply i turned off replies, just wanted you to know, not many people mention LSTR.

[@vijayanchomatil8413]

@@crusherolies8195 and china is certainly funding it!

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

At this point Simon's beard is a megaproject.

[@bevoss7573]

I just commented similar to someone 20min ago 😂🤣

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

Nah the one in Beardmeatsfood is.

[@STriderFIN77]

i also have grown beard for allmost 4years now, and STill havent let it grow like 'caveman, o.O

[@ImSpun13]

I fucking wish I could grow a beard like that. Mine is too patchy.

[@davidallen111]

Here in the Pacific NW Simon's beard is merely average. My beard is twice as long and four times as massive.

[@darranstyler]

“Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.” - Douglas Adams

[@MosheMaserati]

"Space isn't big. It's a place to be big in." Terry Pratchett

[@drboze6781]

Just remember to bring your towel.

[@angusgilfillan3615]

Bigger than the biggest big

[@offrails]

This is why we need to hurry up and invent a spacecraft with Infinite Improbability Drive, or at the very least something with an Italian bistro

[@poonoi1968]

@@MosheMaserati Just started listening toTerry Pratchett audiobooks. Love it!! Simons other channel Biographics just did a video on him about a month ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6XKgpVtgJyHiKc&ab_channel=Biographics

[@thomasfholland]

I (Redaction: didn’t know if anybody else would care) but my dad was one of the chief engineers at NASA/JPL that did the calculations for the trajectories of V1 & V2

[@JonBlondell]

Very Cool! My Uncle Ed Foley worked on it too! Communications. I know you're proud of your Dad! I'm sure proud of my Uncle!

[@BCaldwell]

You should never begin a statement that way........

[@scottmantooth8785]

*serious geek cred by contact osmosis*

[@steffenschiller3189]

Hallo Thomas! I do care! Your dad did something really great! He helped to send this 2 star travellers into space and find their way. They might go on forever or at least for a very long time.You can look up to space and knowing there are two things traveling your daddy sent on their way.

[@TheHarrip]

No he wasn't I was. 🤪

[@JohnSmith-gb5vg]

My dad was stationed at satellite beach in 73-76’ from the beach when that rocket launched as kid I swear it stilled the air and made the sound of the waves gone if not flattened them a little. The ground shook even out where we were. Awesome time to be a kid.

[@SuperFrankto]

My uncle Bill worked at JPL on Voyager 2. My cousin Tom and I got to go to FL and stay with him and my CA cousins for a week and watch the launch. Also, Star Wars was in theaters at the same time. Great time to be a kid for sure.

[@gkprivate433]

yeah. They went up on the big Titan boosters of that time. I watched a few of them get launched out of Vandenberg on the West Coast

[@Andrewf5251]

ye cant say the same about our time sadly tho .

[@KylleinMacKellerann]

Voyager 1 will be proof that we once existed.

[@abnurtharn2927]

Sadly, yes, I fear you are right.

[@1x93cm]

Just imagine if in like 2 million years some other sentient species arises on earth and progresses farther than humanity, ends up going interstellar and finds voyager only to wonder what species it belonged to and where it originated from. WHAT A TWIST!

[@karlepaul6632]

That's right...I heard there's only about 5 Billion years left to the sun....after thatnothing. (....seriously, that's the actual estimate to what our sun has left before burning out....)

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

@@karlepaul6632 _only_ 833.3r the time we've existed so far.

[@ironwarmonger]

In today world, with there so many trying to write the U.S. out of history, or make the things this nation has done seam unimportant (the phrase "minor foot note of history" had been used many times), it is good to know that the American Flag on is side, and the one inside of it will survive for billions of years.

[@twylanaythias]

My grandfather was a giant of the scientific community from the mid-1930s into the 1970s, and part of a summer road trip in 1977 included a private tour of Cape Canaveral in late July. Only got to look at the final assembly through different windows (for obvious reasons) but, while watching this video, it occurred to me that I am possibly the last person to have ever actually seen Voyager-1 with their own eyes. That realization, coupled with the fact that it left our solar system nearly a decade ago, is sobering beyond words.

[@bradlevantis913]

That is truly amazing. And humbling as well.

[@hienzguedarian2477]

Cool story, you should take that fictional writing talent and do something with it

[@twylanaythias]

@@hienzguedarian2477 Congratulations on proving yourself to be a complete idiot.

[@edwardneal4819]

This has to be my favorite Mega Project so far. I'm pretty sure Voyager's last transmission Will be "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

[@fromulus]

Simon, this is honestly such a remarkable accomplishment for all of humanity, it's miraculous really. From what it taught us about jupiter and saturn on its original mission, to the fact they could adjust it with its thrusters after 37 years while it's billions and billions of miles away, and it still does and will continue to be available in general is just, beyond amazing. Here's to hoping it doesn't bump into something after all this time, because we'd have no idea, it'd just disappear.

[@nicolastorres5945]

@Ten Bellies I believe you need to check Xplord :P Simon did a video about light bulbs already.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

@Ten Bellies Because the light bulb is designed to fail. The shit we send into space is designed to last. Mostly.

[@imperial3469]

"Chasing Voyager 1" That'd be a mega-project for sure

[@makisekurisu4674]

Yess, make it happen people.

[@robmc3338]

Yep, we will know humanity has conquered space when objects like Voyager 1, 2 and Apollo 11s 3rd stage booster are sitting in museums. On a side note Apollo 11s 3rd stage booster would fit inside the cargo bay of a cargo Starship.... 🤔

[@makisekurisu4674]

@@robmc3338 There were more stages back then

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

it may get cataloged as a navigation hazard to be eliminated by some interstellar ship's flight computer should it run across the path of another ship. tho could just get lost in the vastness of space to never be seen again. so probably best to go get it and put it in a museum where its location is known and kept track of, lol. I am very much in favor of going to get it when it's done taking measurements, may take some time tho.

[@cheebawobanu]

"Go collect it" before it becomes V'Ger.

[@cyclonicleo]

It really is an utterly mind blowing this, given the numbers involved. Though wouldn't it be funny if our first contact with alien life was them giving back Voyager 1 in a rather annoyed fashion, demanding that we not litter space with our "rubbish".

[@sheevone4359]

Preferably with a note on it saying: "hello we found this and are now sending it back to you. We would be grateful if your personal galactic cruiser wouldn't shed its parts. Thank you!

[@I.am.Sarah.]

"And you have been fined 300 galactic credits for littering" haha

[@Xo-Yanga]

@@I.am.Sarah. we livin in Star Wars now lol

[@I.am.Sarah.]

@@Xo-Yanga Why not both? 8)

[@hienzguedarian2477]

Or something like your dog was in my yard again , keep him on a leash

[@jeffwalker7185]

In the time it took me to watch this video, Voyager 1 has travelled in excess of 12,000 miles.

[@ObservationofLimits]

See now that we know we can use gravitational slingshots to good effect, why not set up another probe, and just plot it for maximum effect.

[@marc.ristau]

That’s exactly the distance to the other side of earth. If you watch this video twice it would have made a full round trip

[@Sommertest]

Cosmic Purgatory has to be the most Metal scientific name yet.

[@Ukbrummie]

Awesome band name!

[@yellowmonkee0]

Prog metal, I'd say.

[@Innerspace100]

It's quite Heavy Space rock, isn't it... Sort of Hawkwind meets Black Sabbath or something...

[@tenhundredkills]

It does sound like an atmospheric black metal band, doesn't it? I imagine it would be similar to Darkspace!

[@otaylorgoulart]

Imagine if 50 years after we lose contact the Voyager starts to come back at us, that would be the creepiest thing ever

[@twylanaythias]

That was pretty much the core plot of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[@agent_meister477]

@@twylanaythias Voyager is the One who seeks the Creator 🖖

[@CDRiley]

@@twylanaythias that was fictional Voyager 6 probe

[@TheGreg6466]

and it's all powerful then starts calling itself v'ger and killing klingons etc lol, i knew star trek would be in the comments.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Or we woke up from a dream, voyager 1 was taking off next week, and you were a little kid. Your whole life, you dreamt it, but you remembered everything that happened in that time span....... Would you start telling your parents? People? Change your path in life? That's a scary thought.

[@janehealy2351]

I was a17 year old wannabe hippy when these these guys left our planet. I'm not a scientist, but I have a sentimental attachment to the Voyagers, I feel like I grew up with them! That they are still sending data to this day is just amazing, especially considering the tecnology of that time!

[@perfboi69]

I love the Voyagers - the little probes that could! Also you forgot to mention the discs on each probe!

[@tomsawyer118]

What if voyager gets slung back to us with spray paint like "go home ya peeping tom!" "Go back to earth, you're drunk!"

[@Stant123]

We'll send it back with a video of Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Voyager (Season 5, Episode 2 "Drone") saying "I am a doctor, not a peeping Tom, there's nothing I haven't seen before."

[@koori3085]

We would have to admit there's intelligence out there!

[@anthonylloyd6094]

On the side of Voyager... "If found, please return to the third rock from the Sun"

[@superglue46]

There's something so incredibly inspiring and yet simultaneously deeply depressing about the Voyager 1 story.

[@leandrochavez6480]

Maybe at the end of the century the voyager 1 will be in a museum in Alpha centauri with a plate: "we could'nt wait 100.000 years to get here"

[@cpljimmyneutron]

My grandfather worked on the camera's on both Voyager probes, as well as many other objects on space. I love pulling up the Voyager Mission Log website and showing people that they are still going and still working.

[@pulepebane5679]

Maybe im just high, but that future museum anecdote seemed more profound than Simon meant it to be.

[@kaptainkrunch6179]

Personally, I think the best thing our future museums could do is let it keep flying for all eternity.

[@Ar_Tank]

We could alternatively send out a upgrade mission to upgrade its parts and add more fuel

[@mjelves]

Congrats for stringing together that flawless sentence while high

[@GlenCooper-sj4lh]

Just a matter of closing the 24 billion km gap to refuel.

[@ImStillWoody]

The most disappointing moment in life is knowing you want to do something yet knowing you'll never be able to in your own life time.

[@hogey74]

That motivates me! But also, yeah. I know.

[@josephmassaro]

I feel ya, man.

[@fromulus]

Wha?

[@maverick7291]

@@fromulus I think he's talking about himself getting laid.

[@TheBooban]

Elon used to think the same

[@anentiresleeveoforeos2087]

A hero that all of humanity can rally behind. I unironically think that Voyager should have a statue in the UN or something. It should at least be on the US $500 bill.

[@anentiresleeveoforeos2087]

@John Barber Dense or...?

[@Zyo117]

@John Barber does "for all mankind" ring any bells?

[@ethannorton564]

Fun fact a replica of voyager 1 and pioneer 10 are hanging in the Smithsonian National air and space museum in Washington DC so to see this in person, even if it isn't the one that left the solar system, isn't impossible.

[@robertgrenader858]

I was at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA for an open house. In the pavilion where representatives of all the remote probes were located, I walked up to the Voyager display. There was this white-haired gentleman behind the table, so I asked how far away Voyager was at this moment. He reached under the table, pulled out a three-ring binder that contained handwritten ledger pages. He turned to the last page, ran his finger down to the last entry, did a bit of mental math, and told me. I later found out that was Ed Stone, former Director of JPL.

[@acerbicatheist2893]

"...a grain of dust suspended in a sunbeam...!" - Dr.Carl Sagan RIP ♥️

[@kaylynmancini1338]

Cft y g

[@Cole_256]

For all mankind is an amazing show

[@stevedownes5439]

first weekly series I have watched on the day it aired since I was a kid

[@gnualmafuerte]

1st season was amazing from pretty much all perspectives. 2nd season is still great as far as drama and action go, and complete and utter crap from a sci-fi perspective. Basically, season 1 was sci-fi, season 2 didn't even bother doing the math, and just became fantasy. I mean, they show completely impossible things, such as a nerva-powered air-launched SSTO shuttle.

[@trtj200]

The first manned suborbital flights happened when I was in 4th grade, been fascinated by space exploration ever since. It just seems so unbeleiveable what man has done.

[@tj-scott]

Voyager 1 : The greatest accomplishment mankind will never see

[@cdmcmxcvi1249]

@Samara Aldeen yeah definitely not that time that a fucking guy walked on the fucking moon. That’s not great at all.

[@timd3469]

@@cdmcmxcvi1249 that doesn't count. Mankind WAS there to see the moon landing... if you believe THEM.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Not really. Even as an astrophysicist it is hardly our greatest accomplishment. There are many that are arguably greater.

[@Wild1BillS]

That Might not be true. It has taken 40 + years for Voyager to get to where it is. Just think if we can learn to travel past the speed of light in 200 years then Voyager will only be roughly 5 days travel away. So it is possiable that we will be able to retreive Voyager sometime in the future.

[@Andrewf5251]

@@cdmcmxcvi1249 noone walked on the fucking moon . it was filmed in hollywood .

[@joshk.6246]

It speaks to the quality in the engineering and workmanship that Voyager 1 is still going and teaching. I cannot fathom anyone proposing such a long-term mission and getting approval but maybe its a lesson to make those probes as robust as possible, we may get something extra from them which is an additional blessing.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

44 years to travel a light day the math is starting to get mind boggling.

[@Real28]

I play Elite Dangerous which is a space game set in our Galaxy, with our Galaxy recreated in 1:1 scale. There's all kinds of science fiction where you can travel faster than light but it puts into perspective just how far things are from each other in space. The distances are so vast that it can take literal human years traving at 500c to travel from one star to another. WITHIN OUR GALAXY. Which kinda made me think that if aliens exist, they haven't been here unless: They have found ways to break the speed of light or use wormhole type transportation Or They live for thousands, if not billions or years per life and are ok with just flying in the void for hundreds of not thousands of years near 1C. Because it takes long enough to travel between objects within star system or even star systems within the galaxy. It's another to start considering traveling OUT of our Galaxy to OTHER galaxies. But yea. When I got into the game and was doing 100C and my destination (WHICH WAS IN A SINGLE STAR SYSTEM) was going to take 1hr...I just sat there in awe. Space is unimaginably huge until you can get a sense of the scale in a game like Elite Dangerous.

[@pauldionne2884]

My exact thoughts too. Makes thinking about finding life even just a couple light years away seem beyond human achievement.

[@andrewcalvert2801]

All they have is mathematics, which is a formal science, it’s a language and with languages you can tell lies and deceive people There is no empirical practical examples of any of these space vehicles working in a vacuum, NONE, just like there is no practical examples for any of the globe nonsense

[@aucruixy]

Can you imagine traveling half a trillion years at light speed

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

@@aucruixy I believe that is size of the universe.

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

I can listen to Simon for hours. I wonder how many people all over the world hear Simon's voice each day. Pretty cool. Thank you Simon for connecting us in education!

[@OleScratch1]

thank you for this. by far this is something humanity should take a little pride in.

[@KiNGSaRG81]

I absolutely LOVE hearing about Voyager 1. Fantastic video! It's really something special that we somehow managed to make this happen with technology less powerful than our smart phones. Also "I hope we can collect it and put it in the museum" is one of the best and most awesome British things Simon has ever said!

[@Echo4Sierra4160]

We put our picture, address, and a list of our fears on it. What could go wrong?

[@celsetialarchives5909]

And now we begome strong against thosr fears and conquer thr aliens when thry come

[@sirmingusdewiv8325]

Yes. The Grand Tour without Clarkson, May, and Hammond. Crazy!

[@seanbrazell6147]

A warning of the problematic selfies to come.

[@gunslinger2566]

Literally nothing. Any aliens that find it will both be so close to Earth and so far advanced that they wouldn't need the directions. Light travels much faster than Voyager I , so they will know much earlier, and much more accurately, than they would get from the plate. I really don't get why people worry about it.

[@SRW_]

We shall crush the humans with their own makings. Start playing yoko ono

[@BradMarcus]

Great mention of "For All Mankind", a seriously great What-if show. I just finished season 2 and looking forward to season 3.

[@frasermanley9903]

'For All Mankind' is absolutely incredible. If you're not watching it then you're missing out.

[@maninahole]

How does Simon put out this much content across all his channels. The man is a machine!

[@laser31415]

Writers locked in his basement. He just has to read them. (see Business Blaze) allegedly ;)

[@Oceansta]

They have teams. Its not one man sitting and doing it all.

[@CausticLemons7]

I can't believe you've done this... I absolutely love Voyager!

[@sth.777]

This makes me want to watch the Star Trek Motion Picture - it's Vyger!

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Ahhh, no! That was the entirely fictional Voyager 6.

[@wolfshanze5980]

@@owenshebbeare2999 How do you know Voyager 6 is totally fictional? Maybe we just haven't made it yet.

[@jimmyyu2184]

I'm just glad that there's no one on board that keeps asking "Are we there, yet?", and need to stop on an asteroid restroom, or wonder where the closest food stop is. "Are we there, yet? Are we there, yet? Are we there, yet?" "Don't make me turn this thing around and go home!!"

[@skyden24195]

X-D

[@acchaladka]

Yes, parenting can cause ptsd. I may HEAD JERK ...know what you feel, friend. GACK.

[@kennyhagan5781]

I was a kid in 77, and I'm still worried that someone will find it.... someone not so nice.

[@kezzabanana4958]

The late great Stephen hawking was actually against these types of missions simply because of your point of view, including the constant sending out of signals from earth for the past 90+ years. He always believed that we'd be better keeping our heads down because you just never know whose out there and how advanced that are. In terms of advanced beings to others on our planet it never bodes well for the inferior creatures! Natural selection is beautiful as it is deadly. I. E ... Lions relationship with a deer! For example.

[@zapfanzapfan]

300 years from now a Klingon uses it for target practice...

[@Musikur]

@@kezzabanana4958 Not to dis Stephen Hawking, but I think it's a bit silly. The radio waves we've been producing for the past 100 years as part of terrestrial life are a much bigger threat than the deliberate messages we've sent. And on the chance that some life force does discover us, they will be so far away that either humans won't exist by the time they get here, or we will have unlocked the secrets to interstellar travel and other insane technologies anyway.

[@kezzabanana4958]

@@Musikur yes I agree, space is too big for anything to visit. I believe we'll despite all the dodgy videos, photos and alleged abductions well never ever ever get a visit from other exterrestrial beings no matter how advanced. Space as nature intended was meant to keep us all away from one another by the sheer distances between solar systems. Space is mind-bogglingly huge.

[@wolfshanze5980]

@@zapfanzapfan And then Voyager returned the favor and used Klingons for target practice.

[@StarShadowPrimal]

I prefer the Elite: Dangerous interpretation, where they let it continue on, and now it's basically a stop on a space bus tour.

[@craigmcleod4002]

Good way to increase your rankings 🤣🤣

[@bobbythomas6520]

Is elite dangerous any good I have it but never played

[@Phazon_Corrupted]

If you enjoy flight simulators it's very fun. It has an extremely steep learning curve but once you get the hang of it it's lots of fun. Imo

[@craigmcleod4002]

@@bobbythomas6520 watch the Edtutorials by exegious for running out the blocks. Watch the yamicks for a laugh at the game

[@bobbythomas6520]

@@craigmcleod4002 sweet

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Voyager 1 carries Rock'n'Roll into the universe. Earth may fade away, but Chuck Berry will be forever.

[@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261]

He used to piss on girls, hope the aliens don't look too much into Chuck's background!

[@Eliphas_Leary]

@@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 I hope that's not what goes through your mind when you listen to Chuck's music.

[@RossM3838]

When the voyager engineers threw a party to celebrate the success chuck berry came in person and performed for them. A grand time was had by all and berry was very honored.

[@JonBlondell]

My Uncle Ed helped design the communications program for Voyager! He was a super cool guy.

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

To your uncle, as to all those who contributed to that project, many thanks for their efforts and I hope that they are proud of what they've achieved

[@JonsTunes]

If any of you get the chance, watch The Farthest. It's one of the best and most humbling documentaries ever.

[@route2070]

Humans, "let's go get it! We have a ship fast enough to bring it back." Voyager 1 seeing that craft approaching " The Hell is that?!?! I thought I escaped humans!"

[@koori3085]

Thinking: Damn I only had 10k yrs to the android galaxy.

[@jackbrown4120]

I'm 45 and they've already been travelling through space for my entire life time...jeez

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

I was 10 when it launched. I feel oddly sad that it's all alone and so far from home. I hope Simon's hope of eventual retrieval comes true! 🤞

[@biffyqueen]

That's how you get VGER

[@perfboi69]

Me too! Cute little probe all on its own :( until aliens get it!

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

@@perfboi69 👍🏻👽😉

[@thomasfholland]

@@biffyqueen I think your comment went whoosh over the kiddos heads

[@fromulus]

I was 2, I've been keeping myself updated on it most of my life, my dad was big into astronomy. That chunk of metal and instruments floating through the interstellar void(soon) really means a lot to me.

[@themidnightwill]

For All Mankind is an amazing series. Highly recommend it to all

[@keepingitreal6793]

Another home run video! Great job Simon and Team! Peace!

[@jerrysstories711]

It would be extremely cool if NASA launched a signal relay probe to partly catch up with Voyager, just close enough to pick up its signals so we can stay in touch.

[@proactive1377]

I think it will take too long and by then the voyager 1 will be further away that it makes the relay useless but if possible it would be amazing

[@samsignorelli]

Various systems have been shut down over time to conserve power....after 2025-2030 there will be no power left. All the comm relays in the world won't help then.

[@Solnoric]

It's not a matter of signal strength, voyager is running low on power. Those RTGs are basically like super long lived batteries and are finally running low.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

Fun Tidbit: Voyager team happened to meet a scientist studying Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth. After the discussion, Voyager team realized they needed additional radiation shielding. However, they had a shoestring budget. Rushing to meet their launch date, and with little money, they wrapped Voyager in Aluminum Foil purchased at a local grocery store. (Yes, they were THAT level of space pioneers!)

[@JohnSmith-eo5sp]

That sounds hard to believe

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@JohnSmith-eo5sp Van Allen belts were not well studied. We only found out there are 3 recently. (40+ years after Voyager.) These folks were true pioneers.

[@JohnSmith-eo5sp]

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 Very well

[@jdmgtfour]

@megaprojects “For all man kind” is a great show. Gets better with every episode. Surprised you didn’t mention the golden records that are aboard Voyager 1 and 2.

[@Sommertest]

Someone should write a Star Trek movie about the consequences of Voyager going into interstellar space...

[@MosheMaserati]

I knew there had to be another comment like this. LOL

[@TheNavyShark]

"Hear the righteous word of the mighty V-GINY!"

[@philipkarsten9859]

There was an episode of the original Star Trek or was it one of the movies? that featured Vger (Voyager)

[@Sommertest]

@@TheNavyShark I think the Mighy V-Giny is the opening act for Cosmic Purgatory tonight

[@samsignorelli]

@@philipkarsten9859 Vger was the first movie..."Star Trek - the Motion Picture" Or, as fans called it "the Motion Sickness"

[@CaminoAir]

There were serious problems with one of the Voyagers not too long into its mission (beyond that covered in this video). I'll give a very brief description, but someone commenting here will surely have better info and corrections as needed. Essentially JPL lost contact with the probe. It become unresponsive. The JPL engineers devised trouble-shooting steps and communicated them towards the probe, but nothing worked. The probe's own automated attempts to identify and resolve the problem only resulted in a series of internal steps that made the situation worse. This was over a period of weeks. It was feared the mission was unrecoverable. The probe's computer somehow (through a series of shutdowns) corrected itself (miraculously). Proper communications was re-established and a set of improvised amendments were made. all of which resulted in the probe proceeding with its flight plan and communication protocols. No exaggeration: this mission by all basic principles of the technology should have failed.

[@Dac85]

"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extraterrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages, and a collection of music, from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry; including "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him at 7 by throwing lye in his eyes after his father beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system." - West Wing S5 E13

[@chrisyoung8301]

Literally anything I look up simon has a channel and video for. God bless this man.

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55]

Imagine if suddenly NASA finds that voyage has stopped...and after a few hours starts moving back towards earth at a higher rate of speed than it should be capable of....

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55]

@Proxima B you know, you don't have to tell us that you imagined it... you just imagine it... confirmation of imagining is not necessary.

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55]

@Proxima B get Proxima A in here, someone needs to do something about this planet's bad attitude...

[@SRFriso94]

One thing I feel you should have mentioned: that 'Grand Tour' was only possible because the outer four planets roughly lined up in the 1970's, and the next opportunity they got after that if they happened to miss their launch window was 163 years away. So no, we won't be doing that again any time soon. As for what will happen to it, wouldn't it be much cooler if some alien civilization found it, scooped it up, and them brought it back to Earth: "Yo. Don't litter."

[@GarganoGambino]

Your end note was exactly what I was thinking throughout the video! .....it will be our descendants whom will see it again before any extraterrestrial life forms; in my opinion!

[@isabellacalavera8577]

A wonderful video I’ve waited ages for! Now do Voyager 2! The only probe to visit Uranus and Neptune!

[@IdoloOcelot]

Put it in a Museum? No way. Track it and make it a galactic heritage site that people can visit as it hurtles through space.

[@beechcraft45]

Love it!!! It was made to travel through space, lets keep it that way, so it can fulfill its goal

[@Zyo117]

Imagine the security bill...

[@brianarbenz7206]

15:28 Notice how Simon pronounces the planet that starts with the letter U. Voyager took a picture of _my what?_ Just kidding, great video, Simon. This is a treasure of info and images. Mind boggling to compare the 8 minutes it takes the sun's rays to reach Earth, with the _21 hours_ it takes them to reach Voyager. That puts the distance in perspective!

[@nem447]

How astronomers names stars: _“hey what if we just slammed our head on a keyboard?”_ Cp7b89.-d

[@Zyo117]

The problem with star naming conventions isn't the weird numbers and whatever, it's that they're not consistent. Different astronomers use different naming schemes, and so we end up with the mess we've got.

[@albina.henriksson2326]

@@Zyo117 Dude, you just led me into one hell of a rabbit hole. Thanks, I guess. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_designations_and_names

[@gkprivate433]

I love this deep space stuff and tracking, using velocity doppler data, trajectory reconstruction etc. I took a kalman filter class for fun at UCLA a long time ago and I wrote a mathcad program that took in just "velocity" data and with a simple model came up with position and velocity data. I used to work on Best Estimate Trajectory when stationed at Vandenberg AFB, and later took courses in time series, probability, Recursive Least squares, etc. Really is interesting how to combine measurements from different sources and assign or estimate the quality of such data

[@plinkitee]

I hope you also cover Voyager 2.

[@danyelshaikh1553]

Love your ending lol. Voyager 1 is my favorite space probe to learn about ever. Suggestion, you should add chapters to your videos where you put the headers to make it easier to navigate. Great vid!

[@progkarma944]

Excellent Video! Cassini-Huygens please! :)

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

Raid stream was Epic blaze man. Totally worth the lack of sleep I am currently suffering. 10/10 would watch again.

[@psodq]

Born in 1976, I grew up with the Voyagers. Watched pictures relayed by them in my youth. Seeing the probes faring away feels like journeying myself. Let them journey on forever.

[@nicholashylton6857]

Same here. Receiving a feed from NASA, my local cable company broadcast the images from Voyager 2 during its fly by of Uranus and Neptune (in '86 & '89 respectively.) I stayed up late at night watching the raw images coming down in real time! Awesome memories.

[@sinisterintelligence3568]

@@nicholashylton6857 So jealous.

[@adamfornaro5390]

For all Mankind is such a good show!!!! I concur with your recommendation, Simon!

[@johnwentz4359]

No one ever talks about he Lockheed P-38 Lightning. One of the most powerful multifunction planes of WW2. Put it into one of you channels. It was a real awesome plane.

[@221b-l3t]

WB-57 too!

[@salamander163]

i do not see the relation to this video

[@221b-l3t]

@@salamander163 99% of his videos are from viewer suggestions which he invites at the end of every episode...

[@deaks25]

The Voyager probes are one of the things that made me interesting in science and engineering subjects as a kid and even to this day, I kind of romanticise them both. When I read as an adult that we would lose the ability to communicate with them in my life-time I was genuinely saddened, for one because they are probably 'seeing' readings and data that would be a genuinely unique insight into the nature of the universe but also because they are such ground-breaking pieces of engineering that have functioned so far past their intended operational life-span that it defies every expectation. The fact JPL have a whole section dedicated to the Voyager's that (I understand) is basically funded for as long as they function shows how exceptional the probes are and how many firsts they broke.

[@Cryodrake]

One thing: no mention of the golden disk it holds that could be used to show either aliens or future humans what life was like back in the 1970s?

[@padawanmage71]

Thanks for the ‘For All Mankind’ shoutout. Love the show! How about a mega project about the Golden Record both Voyagers carry in case they ever are picked up by interstellar beings?

[@basichistory]

Voyager 1 to be collected and put in a museum. Now there's a great idea!

[@johna.3693]

I've only recently found Megaprojects and I Love this Channel! TOPIC SUGGESTION : All the trash & debris orbiting the earth and various ideas to deal with it. (I'll just assume you love the idea and await it's debut 😛)

[@BioLegacy141]

I'm torn in my emotional and poetic mind. This star-ward traveler was born to explore, can we take it from its destiny? But maybe after all that time it deserves to return home, and rest for be remembered for all to see?

[@literallyshaking8019]

That’s impossible.

[@larrysouthern5098]

Please see my comment.. "V..ger" .

[@Zakster90]

More space Megaprojects! Love these!

[@seerofallthatisobvious1316]

If Star Trek taught us anything it's that V-GER will return and it will seek it's creator.

[@BytebroUK]

"Put it in a museum!" I nearly spat my tea over the screen.

[@walterfechter8080]

A warning to Voyager -- "Keep away from that pesky alien-altered Nomad -- he's bad company."

[@MrRhoadsRules25]

Searching random topics and finding one of Simon's videos never gets old

[@Robslondon]

Incredible.

[@kelidus]

I just finished the second season of For All Mankind. Absolutely awesome show. Keep going

[@carter342000]

I don’t know if I like the museum. I like the idea that when we are finally, truly gone, for whatever reason, there is still something of humanity going ever onwards. Though I feel the sad reality is that if we can create a craft which can overtake it, someone mega rich will just end up with it and put it in a private collection. It probably is better off in a public museum then.

[@toddavis8151]

The Australian tracking station is just outside Canberra, about half an hour from where I live. Next to the current receiver sits the old Honeysuckle Creek dish which was the first dish to receive images from the moon landing

[@dantreadwell7421]

Both Voyager probes are still alive and very very slowly talking to us still.

[@emmata98]

as he said

[@robertestes167]

Wild

[@mikedwn]

stumbled on your videos....bloody awesome. Love your info and presentation of topics. Don't stop! Greetings from Australia.

[@Unknowngfyjoh]

Are you new to the Whistle-verse? You've got a lot of catching up to do! It might take you 3 years.

[@mikedwn]

@@Unknowngfyjoh yep! one month in...I search every day mate to catch up!

[@DMS-pq8]

The Voyagers have been traveling for almost 45 years at close to 40,000 MPH and still haven't traveled a full light day from Earth, Then you consider the closest star system to ours is over 4 light YEARS away, Yeah space is big

[@Real28]

And that's a star SYSTEM. That's just a star WITHIN our GALAXY. There's se 400 BILLION other star systems in our Galaxy...lmao Think about the distances between GALAXIES. And then how big some of those galaxies might be.

[@joshuaburba1048]

And after trying to wrap your mind around all that, now try imagining the God who holds the entire universe in His hand. That's truly mind-blowing.

[@harshtiwari7503]

@@joshuaburba1048 there is no god .

[@joshuaburba1048]

@@harshtiwari7503 LOL, sure, whatever you say Harry. Good luck proving your statement.

[@harshtiwari7503]

@@joshuaburba1048 i am not the one claiming that there is a god ,it's you are inserting this fictitious character god out of nowhere which according to your words holds universe in his hands . I can replace your God with Superman and it would all sound the same.

[@gregoryambres1897]

That Simon's report encompasses a scope of exactly one-hundred forty years from now is GENIUS 🏆

[@Tyrann13]

No mention of the Golden Disc on the probe?

[@Adam-ln4og]

Shhhhh, those are for the Decepticons.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

And the instructions to build a record player.

[@deemariedubois4916]

I love anything space related. Thanks Simon, your enthusiasm was enjoyable.

[@keiichi902]

V'GER ;)

[@jokerz7936]

Nah that was Voyager 6. Just joking nice to see someone mention V'Ger.

[@mattrodgers4878]

Nerds!!! Since I get the reference, I have to be included as a nerd.

[@mrpddnos]

We should make sure there are humbback whales around😂

[@appleiphone69]

@@mrpddnos wrong movie 😜. V’ger was Star Trek the motion picture

[@mrpddnos]

@@appleiphone69 ooops😂

[@LarsaXL]

Yes!!! Finally back to space projects.

[@Wag2112]

My bet is on Roddenbury's theory . . . It will come back to us . . . with a little help :)