Voyager 1 and 2 Detected Something Beyond the Edge of Our Solar System

The journey of Voyager I and II beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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[@TooLameToDie]

It's taken 45 years, traveling at ludicrous speeds, for these two satellites to reach where they are today. Space is absolutely immense. That is both terrifying and awe inspiring to me.

[@cardinalsfanforever4484]

No no no, light speed is too slow. We're gonna have to go right to...Ludicrous Speed

[@Daniel-Davies-Gonstead-Student]

@@cardinalsfanforever4484 *plaid*

[@TooLameToDie]

@@cardinalsfanforever4484 sir, we've never gone that fast before...I don't know if the ship can take it!!

[@johnnyhunter]

@@TooLameToDie What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

@@johnnyhunter LOL!

[@davidhauton7643]

Can you imagine, there must be some nasa scientists or engineers who have worked on this project their entire lives. It must be such an experience and privilege to be there from the beginning and to see the completion 45years later. Well done to the hundreds involved, I feel as if I've grown up with this project!!

[@vomm]

Every U.S. taxpayer has worked on this project to

[@psychopunk8817]

@@vomm I mean better this than nuclear bombs.

[@adventureswithdogs2251]

@@vomm Total cost to date for the Voyagers- $865 million. The US has a plan in place to replace all of its land-based ICBM's with a newer type of missile beginning in 2029. Estimated cost will be $100 BILLION!

[@robertt9342]

@@vomm . Well no… is tax payers have paid for it. You can’t be one of those people that equate money to work, are you?

[@geigercourtier]

@@adventureswithdogs2251 cancers ready…whenever you guys have time, no rush…

[@MobileTech296]

The Voyager probes were launched a month before I was born and have taken my lifetime to leave our solar system. It’s kind of mind boggling just how big space really is.

[@baiqi44]

It'll take a lot longer than that. Leaving the Oort cloud is officially leaving the solar system. That won't happen for another 30,000 years.

[@eustab.anas-mann9510]

It will take 40000 years for Voyager to get to the nearest star.

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

Maintaining communication for almost half a century in space is remarkable. Meanwhile Wi-Fi here on earth goes out with nearly every passing thunder storm. Lol

[@davidgalea6113]

the voyagers are one of the greatest engineering achievements ever made. The fact they they are still going after all these years and at such large distances is impressive. long live the voyagers !

[@Jay-gq4cd]

18 hour old comment on a 6 minute old video????? Love KZbin

[@_guitar_dad]

How did you comment 18 hours before this video released?

[@silentsmiles1734]

this is amazing

[@kugelblitz-zx9un]

Maybe they were given access to this video smh or maybe it was premiered or something.

[@2ichie]

Doesn’t matter what you throw into space. Could be the greatest engineering marvel or could be an old shoe but that object will travel longer than earth is alive as long as it doesn’t hit another object in space which is 0.0000000000000001% chance of it colliding. Kinda mind blowing that voyager or this old shoe will last longer than fucking EARTH!!!

[@mrhax4464]

Being born in 71 meant I got to witness the whole Voyager mission. From my childhood to my teens, I had that opportunity to experience the first ever close-up views of the outer planets. Every time I see an astronomy documentary that mentions that mission, I feel truly privileged that I got to have that experience. I also feel bloody old.

[@valentincuc4101]

Mr. Hax. me too born 71... had the opportunity to follow the voyager missions, and its still fascinanting after 45 years they are speeding through space beyond our dreams to the next stars... but its gonna take 75.000.years to reach our nearest star(proxima centauri).

[@carolinekelly6443]

@mr Hax I agree, it's a privilege, but don't feel old, because in Light Years, we're only seconds old 🚀🛰️😃

[@elizabethsullivan7176]

I was born in 71 too. Voyager 2 launched 8 days after my 6th birthday. We really were born at the perfect time. 😊👍

[@valentincuc4101]

@@elizabethsullivan7176 Liza.. when is your birthday? if you dont mind asking you?

[@paulnolan4971]

@@valentincuc4101 69th like yay. Soz but it's prescient cos was gonna say too that I was born in 70 and avidly watched John Craven's newsround for the launch and all the news on them for YEARS. pre-internet ofc hehe

[@christine2ehgtinyhouse893]

The Voyagers are so impressive with what they've done, how long they've lasted and the amazing amount of information they've been able to relay back to the Earth. NASA has done such spectacular work on this project and on the most minimal budget. We need to celebrate our science more than we do.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

I have another idea. What about building probes _Specfically for_ traveling out of our solar system, and into deep space, then into another solar system? Sure they would take hundreds or thousands of years to get there, and then decades to radio back their discoveries, but so what? There should still be people around, then. 😊☄️🌌

[@sharonwetherholt6768]

As an elementary student I remember the beginnings of space study with various projects. Voyager 1 and 2 have a fond place in my life as I encountered it when young and am able to still follow them now that I am an older, retired citizen. Amazing!

[@bobf12]

I am going to miss the little guy. He has had a spectacular life and has enriched my life greatly.

[@frogstamper]

I remember watching the launch of both Voyagers in 77, I was thirteen at the time, and its incredible to think that now at the age of fifty eight both of these probes are still sending data back to Earth, a true testament to NASA engineering.

[@williamlynnroden]

@frogstamper. Same here.

[@gossman75]

I can't even get a signal to my Mother's house with my cellphone at 45 miles. Hard to believe these voyagers crafts can send and receive signals from Earth while the probes are billions of miles from the earth. WTF

[@cliftonadlerjr.1837]

I graduated in 77.

[@davismize]

But we cant go to the moon. Never did go. No proof of the single greatest achievement of mankind. Nothing they shredded all evidence.

[@davismize]

They've been stealing through conversion for decades.

[@bwhog]

It is beyond impressive that the technology those probes were built with has allowed them to survive, intact, and still in communication with earth for *45* years! Man, that crop of engineers *really* knew what they were doing!

[@kingmasterlord]

and yet a smartphone lasts a couple years

[@shitlordflytrap1078]

@@kingmasterlorda smartphone is a complex device that is being actively used constantly and handled often improperly. Send a smartphone into space and it'll last 20 years too, don't worry.

[@gamerguy6990]

@@shitlordflytrap1078 no phones going to last that long no matter the conditions cause the batteries going to die first before most likely anything else

[@Brainless_Memer]

@@gamerguy6990 the person holding the phone

[@foxbutterfly-eden8715]

I’ve had the same iPhone since 2015 and use it constantly. And when I bought it, bought it second hand. But it was one of the most expensive models; built to last. Most commercial products aren’t built to last. They’re built to fail and be replaced so that the company can make more money. It’s called planned obsolescence. But there are some products that are built to last. They’re more expensive up front, but they save you money in the long run. Kinda like buying things in bulk does. Voyager was built to last. Comparing its lengthy functionality to your phone’s planned obsolescence is, well, kinda silly.

[@heydj6857]

i was 9, i bunked off school to watch both launches, i'm still in awe that they have lasted this long, incredible engineering. these incredible distances, another 300 years just to reach the ort cloud, and 30k years for it to leave that cloud and leave out solar system, just incredible distances which are tiny really in regards to interstellar travel. we are so small and the universe is huge. it's been crazy following all these years, every single day wondering if the craft would be destroyed or fail and here we are all these years later now beginning to reach the very end of the mission. sad that it will end but still,what a journey!

[@rashadd2615]

Imagine 1000s of years from now a civilization finding one of the probes and listening to those golden disc. How crazy that must be of possibly seeing a different species of intelligent life completely different from your own.

[@philipfresco]

@SharrelWright not in your comment LMAO

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Indeed, Rashadd 😊 . But, I am skeptical that they could be _too different_ from us to understand the sounds on the record. Or, even realize what they are supposed to be, at all. 😞 We have no reason to think they would have a sense of sight or hearing.

[@dennyclosser8456]

What are the problems with that though? Is they have to have a record player right? It’s literally like an album so I don’t know who thought it was to say. Hey, I’m sure all life out there has record players. Just saying might be a better way to try to communicate, but who knows

[@Kids11111]

They'd probably eat the discs

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

Especially if they are a threat... those morons gave them directions to earth and our DNA sequence....glad I won't be here to find out if Xenomorphs are friendly or not....most likely not but not my problem.

[@patd.3368]

My father worked on both these projects and on Apollo 11(the suit and the landing gears) I was a kid but my dad lived by the rules of his Secret Clearance…BUT… I do remember him telling me about a pretty good idea they had to use Saturn to buy them some travel time…now I understand what he was trying to tell me…the 173 year window for a perfect launch. He would be so pleased to know that V1 and 2 are still going. The men and women engineers he worked with were all people he came to greatly admire!!!! Thank you for putting together this awesome video!!!

[@MrsCook-ml9im]

Is it true that the engineers went behind the back of the planners and ultimately led to expanding the timeframe of operation of voyagers?

[@patd.3368]

@@MrsCook-ml9im I was 10 years old when my dad worked on Voyager… he died in 1982, so I never had a very adult conversation with him about his true work…and he was under the strict rules of Secret Clearance…Hope someone can answer your question…I’m sure there are many fascinating tales to be told

[@puncheex2]

I appreciate your statement and your father's effort, but I question his need for clearances. I suspect he worked other programs as well that may have required clearance, but as best I know Apollo itself had no requirement above Confidential level. I worked on the Viking Mars landers project and that was all I had until I later got into some of the other things going on.

[@siemsoftware6405]

I am so excited to read your comments. Do you also work for NASA just like your father?

[@berretta9mm158]

The amazing thing about the Voyager missions is that, unlike in the past when computer technology was in its earliest infancy (They were launched a year after Apollo 11), they can now be monitored and controlled by a few people in a room of a building. We've come a long way - thanks mostly to the Gemini and Apollo programs, but also to the plethora of probes, from before Voyager and onward to the present. The U.S. builds better space equipment than any other country in the world, and we still have a right to be proud of that.

[@HistoryGarden]

Only 300 years to the Oort Cloud, at 540 million kilometers per year. Just the solar system is so much more vast than we can really comprehend

[@Swavvy116Xrs]

& that is just our solar system... now imagine the galaxy!! 🤯

[@Quickened1]

After thousands of years, the closest star to it, besides our own, will still be 4 light years away... That's just one star among billions in our Galaxy alone, and space, is mostly empty...

[@pauls5745]

yeah how immense,, i was amazed also at how fast it actually is going . that's about 61,000 kmh!

[@maxonite]

@@ArtThouGardener that is unbelievable… and people think we’ll reach other stars…

[@paulbenedict1289]

They're not gonna get that far. In a few centuries someone will track them, catch them, bring back to earth and sell for obscene amount of money.

[@MediumDSpeaks]

I found you guys under 10k subscribers. blown away in such Short time you've blasted past 1m like voyagers 1&2 past the solar system! i expected 100k+ but this is truly inspiring. You deserve it I just had little faith in enough people online being on your level of intellect and artistry combined. So happily proven well wrong congrats @!!!!!

[@ForsythJC]

Video: "Voyager 1 & 2 detected something beyond the edge of our solar system." Me (a Destiny 2 geek): "Let me guess, pyramid ships? Savathun DID warn us that the Witness is coming. Hide the Traveler, ya'll!" XD

[@Jobutron1]

To imagine those are floating and still operating so deep in space is just, simply wondrous and makes the imagination run wild

[@TheCoryGroshek]

Yet my WiFi stops working if I go into my front drive way.

[@sydneyhardial2669]

My WiFi doesn't work. Can't pay, I am skint.

[@user-cg7tl]

It's science fiction. Don't believe what you hear from the internet, youtube, and NASA which is more of a fraud than youtube.

[@Soken50]

@@TheCoryGroshek Maybe try plugging it into an RTG and a 3.7m wide antenna.

[@DescendDab]

@@TheCoryGroshek you could build a bootleg antenna using foil and a bowl, it might help and is fun to do if you are bored

[@Parabellumjohn215]

My mom was an intern at GE when they were building Voyager 1 & 2, she handled procurement and ordered many things like the RTG generator that are used to power them Proud of her small contribution

[@skunktheshrink]

When will the brainwashed public realize that the real motive for such government projects is to funnel taxpayer dollars into the pockets of billionaires.

[@mearlytheadministrator9562]

Her contribution doesn't sound small at all

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

That's darn cool man!

[@dannysankyu]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ stfu. i’m Christian but absolutely nobody is gonna turn to Christianity or repent when you’re constantly advertising it like it’s a new cereal. it’s just gonna make people who aren’t religious hate religion even more.

[@canonwillette5580]

Ah, the GE in Schenectady, NY. My husband worked there designed the massive turbines.

[@mrscootervids]

Its actually so unbelievable its strange. The fact that both made it so we could solidify statistics and use both to verify information is a credit to the human race. Long live the Voyagers

[@MrVikingsandra]

I love the Voyagers so much! I loved this video thank you. I wish they could keep communicating with us...oh, the stuff they will see on their endless journey!

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

I wish there had been more of their model deployed to outer space. 😏

[@JD3Gamer]

IMO the Voyager missions are the most important missions that NASA has conducted. At least outside of practical things like weather tracking, solar storm tracking, asteroid tracking, etc.

[@mattsmith5421]

Lucky the engineers went behind the planners backs then

[@jaybee9269]

@@mattsmith5421 >> I don’t know that story but…somehow…I don’t doubt it.

[@mattsmith5421]

@@jaybee9269 if you're interested to find out the channel is homemade documentaries, the voyager missions remastered. It was posted 4 weeks ago. Definitely worth the 2hrs 45mins

[@neddyladdy]

They are the most important missions ever, if other more important missions, are ignored. wow, brilliant !

[@williamyoung9401]

Until the James Webb. ;-) We're FINALLY going to see the first remnants of the Big Bang!

[@IvanRodriguez-kl2hz]

Imagine one day in the future, if or when we achieve intersteller travel, someone finds and recovers the two Voyagers somewhere in the void. It'd be like the mother of all time capsules.

[@db7610]

Kinda like the discovery of The Dead Sea Scrolls

[@elite6657]

And they would be worth BILLIONS they are priceless history

[@jameskelly3745]

@@db7610 more like finding evidence of dinosaurs and finding out about how old this Earth is that's what's amazing.

[@pws3rd170]

Imagine if we achieved interstellar travel in say 200 years, and sent something to chase down one of the probes, it would have to go like 10 times the speed just to catch up in a reasonable amount of time. But then I’m not sure if it would even be possible to control velocity without an atmosphere so you couldn’t exactly slow down to interact with the probe

[@GamingAppleTheFirst]

@@pws3rd170 reverse thrusters

[@koiyujo1543]

these probes will no be forgotten they will forever be remembered for being one of the greater missions in history

[@mattychaz4223]

I love how he makes machines feel like they are alive in his videos.

[@swensdawg]

My dad was one of the engineers that got to work on some of this stuff, he also did some of the mars rover stuff. It's a lot of planning, a lot of calculating, and a lot of testing, but the results are awesome.

[@PrestOGveeh]

kto zaputave

[@darklegionnaire8304]

they sent up two decaying nuclear reactors and we think anyone else would find that peacefull???? decaying nuclear matter maybe our first contact. isnt that disgusting

[@hummervs3278]

And imagine this: They added the information about type of creature we are, the gold disk stuff. What if it actually goes near a creature that sees it, and can go capture it without destroying it. They would be a far more advanced group than we are today- we couldn’t detect it then react in time to catch it if going right past us. If they could research it and figure out the path it took from us to them -they would think we sent it specially to them on purpose. They would think we knew about them and sent it on purpose specifically to them. They would assume we are way more advanced than we are. As to the decaying nuke- nah. Thats not good for us but might be chocolate to them. A piece of aluminum has potential to be toxic to some unknown critter.

[@robertsaca3512]

They would think this and that. What a reach.

[@hummervs3278]

@@robertsaca3512 Speculation, Half the fun! Have you no imagination to ponder: what if?

[@darlingicarus]

man that ending made me tear up 🥺 I can't even begin to fathom the things these little probes will see long after us and our ancestors are gone. safe travels little machines!

[@worfoz]

...so emotional... "cold and lonely in the deep dark night"...

[@berretta9mm158]

They won't see anything: they will be fuelless, dead machines, speeding through space like all other Interstellar objects - like Ouamuamua. It makes you wonder...

[@fungaltoe3748]

imagine the probe reaches some alien civilization millions of years after humans have gone extinct. it makes me feel insignificant to think about

[@Zelphyn]

30,000 years just to exit our solar system. They have a veeeery long journey ahead of them.

[@Johninadelaide2022]

or get shot as junk by Klingons haha

[@zargonfuture4046]

A beautiful expression of what space and its mystery is.. Thank you, it was very moving....

[@teresahatfield4521]

The Voyager1and Voyager 2 are such impressive pieces of equipment our engineers and others at NASA and others worked on. So wonderful and impressive. Such great work they did. Very great work! Such wonderful information they will give us. So useful.

[@kylewood2715]

Is it strange that I feel sad thinking of these two amazing machines "going dark"?

[@semaj_5022]

I almost cried when when the Opportunity rover finally reached its end, so to me its not strange at all. This will be the end of an era. Finally closing the chapter on nearly a half century of science and understanding brought by these two wonderful machines and the innovations that built them. But were entering a new era of space exploration and discovery at the same time. The JWST era, you could say. So it's not all sad.

[@jessicaowen5720]

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[@jessicaowen5720]

For help to recover your money

[@jessicaowen5720]

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[@jessicaowen5720]

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[@daniellocke4172]

I simply want to say thank you. My 7 yo son watched this whole video with me doing nothing but asking questions. Very good job. Engaging my son is hard. Great video and amazing topics.

[@williamdavis8035]

You're a good dad

[@PoopaChallupa]

Did you inform your son that the oort cloud is only a hypothesis and not proven to exist?

[@daphenomenalz4100]

@@PoopaChallupa it does, there are literal proofs lol

[@NorrinRaddNorrinRadd]

To anyone who is looking at the comments before paying attention to the video and audio, then stop reading, and start watching and listening, because….. This is a brilliant video, with the best explanations of what is happening in it, that I have come across on YT, and on top of that, the commentator is speaking very clearly, with a voice that is easy on the ears………. So, between all of the information, and the ease of understanding what they’re saying, this has truly got to be one of the very best videos available on YT, and I am absolutely ecstatic that I have found this video and channel………….

[@1DerangedWarrior]

these were launched 2yrs before i was born. Launched in 77 I believe n im now almost 44. I've always been amazed that they have been up there that long & still transmitting my entire life.

[@shanekral2650]

I remember as a small child when these Space Travelers launched, my Papa was all tears and in awe. He explained to me how important these craft were to us and how proud he was to be alive to see us able to explore beyond Mars. He has passed and no longer with us, but likely has more info where he is now. I picture him always along their side for the interstellar journey. Thank you for the great video.

[@xxpatrick204xx]

Bill Nye the Actor Guy told me your dad was just a bunch of water and carbon. Hail Moloch!

[@ahmed4363]

Everytime i read a comment like this, i tear up.

[@natmanprime4295]

@@xxpatrick204xx lol

[@shubhamkumar6689]

We need more parents like your father in this world.

[@krashd]

@@xxpatrick204xx You mean Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Nighy the Actor Guy doesn't do astronomy.

[@GrouchyRaccoon]

Imagine, tens of thousands of years into the future, being part of some alien civilisation discovering a long dead probe entering their own star system. It could be their first indication of any other life existing in the Universe.

[@poison4303]

What’s great too is the stuff we have on those probes that represents us to foreign life :0

[@youtubenightcrawler9571]

Then the government of that cilivization covers it up and buries it. lol

[@tomlxyz]

That would require some extremely sophisticated detection system since it's such a tiny object in such a vast space and still would need to be identified as being different from other vast number of things flying around

[@Tinmann_77]

Or it crashes in a ranchers field in a scraggly desert state, and the government covers it up.

[@SussedRage]

@@tomlxyz yeah I wonder how many have flown near us lol

[@BaseSRKI]

Wonderful, this video was an amazing start of my day in a difficult time!

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

I was a Teenager when the Voyagers were launched, I am now a Pensioner. Those 2 Probes have been out there in unknown Space for more than my entire Career

[@louk597]

i have an intresting question......how will alien life capture the voyagers thier going so fast ?

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

@@louk597 All they have to do is get to the same speed and come along beside it, not really all that complicated

[@louk597]

@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 i just thought with the size of space +the speed its going the chances would be nill then i started to google how would it be intercepted, its sad google couldnt/wouldnt give me a streight forward answer like yours thank you. hope you understand why i asked

[@lizzykay9912]

It's kind of magical that even if we as a species manage to end ourselves that there would still be a testament to humanity and the Earth going out there. I thank the wonderful scientists, engineers and everyone who were involved in the making of those probes. Go, Go Voyager 1 & 2!

[@TheBandit7613]

Veeger has information for the creator.

[@user-cg7tl]

Magical is the correct word. Just like magic doesn't exist, so do NASA fabrications that they use to do their money laundering.

[@thalassaer4137]

@@TheBandit7613 no

[@MrHouserobot]

The question is, how many races already left such traces and where are they (the traces)

[@krashd]

@@MrHouserobot Drifting in space just like Voyager 1 and 2 will likely forever do.

[@alklazaris3741]

I'm honestly just satisfied that even if we are completely wiped out at the end of the sun's life we will still have a few probes telling the universe we existed.

[@Johninadelaide2022]

That's millions of years...... Do you not think some humans will have left the Earth by then?

[@alklazaris3741]

@@Johninadelaide2022 I'm very pessimistic about what humanity is capable of. Too much greed and entitlement gets in the way of progress. Even setting past and current issues aside we are still talking about sending a ship on a very very very long journey with enough time to spare to avoid the suns first nova ejection. Put in today's terms I see everyone arguing about when it will happen and why dump so much resources in alarmist behavior. Then one day to a sadly surprised civilization the sun takes the planet down.

[@l0wr4n]

@@alklazaris3741 agreed, we'll nuke each other before we go inter planetary anyways. Sad but more likely

[@chriskwakernaat2328]

@@alklazaris3741 pretty much the movie dont look up..

[@mikepatterson5349]

Those probes have very little information on them compared to the vast quantity of knowledge projected through space from our radio waves that travel at a much faster rate.

[@halweilbrenner9926]

Thid was a great imaginary journey of a real journey brought to life. Thank U!

[@kaygataki6163]

Makes my day to day issues so small in comparison to the absolute vastness out there. I grew up with the Voyagers, thanks for this update.

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

Though I had an interest in space (looking up at night with wonder) it was the voyager programme that made my interest grow, and being a 15 year old gave me a chance to learn as I grew up. Now 60 my interest has gathered a library of knowledge, and yes, I still look up

[@soumyaripan5131]

It's such a blessing to feel we are part something so amazing and we can appreciate the astounding creation and wonder about the creator

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

@@soumyaripan5131 I'm looking forward to SpaceX's next venture, another peice of history to add to my long list.

[@ettenmoors1990]

45 years and still in service… i wish our smartphones can last this long. :)

[@dogwalker666]

Difference is consumer electronics are designed to fail, We have machines that were built during the first world war still in full production, Yet our state of the art Machine made in South Africa that's only a year old breaks down almost every day.

[@generaleerelativity9524]

Yeah, whatever uranium was used in those batteries I hope they have a stockpile of it somewhere and don't try to sell it to some foreign country _{cough, cough, Hillary, cough}_ 😧

[@theincrediblehibby8239]

@@dogwalker666 But of course; there's no money in longevity 😭

[@dogwalker666]

@@theincrediblehibby8239 exactly.

[@ramboanime]

Can't go wrong with Nokia

[@cooterwallace]

I was born on August 7th 1977. I have literally been watching these missions my entire life thanks to my dad. Thanks pop. I miss you.

[@rogue3500]

This was a great report, thank you learned a lot

[@oevr37]

The farthest picture ever taken of earth... (by human society). Very interesting that it takes so long for the voyager to get through the outer perimeters of our solar system. This means that if we'd ever live to see interstellar travel made possible, we'd probably easily catch up with the good old voyager, and maybe retrieve the old golden record to put it into a new faster voyager that will actually get somewhere in the next million years.

[@gloriabeckley7464]

If we eventually meet a space faring species we are going to create systems of measurement we both can agree on.

[@oevr37]

@@gloriabeckley7464 I hope it won't be the imperial system :P

[@StormTheSquid]

@@oevr37 Watch the imperial system somehow have some sort of cosmic significance that we can't even imagine, like some specific constant is precisely 1 imperial foot, or precisely one pound, and we just don't know about it.

[@LaurArt_UK]

@@StormTheSquid And some old alien saying, "Back in my day we used to measure in elbows! This newfangled imperial system is confusing."

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

I believe they should be rid of the records, and use something that uses waves instead of an outdated mechanical thing even by our standards to communicate. Dunno what they could use. But a record ain't it for me, Chief.

[@samratchattopadhyay3057]

Though we may not be able to travel to those light years far distances in our lifetime, but your videos help us travel virtually to those dark depths of the Universe. Thanks Astrum. 🙏🏻

[@pauls5745]

greatest space achievement ever. I just think they are so far, they wont sent more out now. you couldn't catch up with them or even reach the edge again in 50+ years. they had the 2 best planets to slingshot from within easy reach

[@DevlinSavini]

It’s unlikely humans will ever travel beyond the solar system

[@samratchattopadhyay3057]

@@DevlinSavini yeah...you are correct..even reaching Pluto will take decades....and the limit of the solar system extends upto the Oort clouds, which is light years across in length....so practically humans won't be able to go beyond the solar system...the only way to go there is to develop a supersonic Interstellar spacecraft.

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

❤️

[@grahamgreenfield3765]

THAT IS THE REASON ALIENS HAVE NOT VISITED US. It is beyond reasonable that other civilisations exist. Probably thousands in our galaxy. But distance means they will never come this far and we will never go that far to find them.

[@SonoftheWars]

This is a remarkable editorial. Outstanding.

[@michaelandrew4812]

The whole video is so insighful and amazing space is so vast and mysterious everything he said from 11:00 was so poetic and touching

[@l.a.2646]

All of the contractors who have their equipment on the probes should be extremely proud, example the electrical system, and the radio system! Those two items are the major reason these are still going. They were built with love and care and definitely overbuilt- stands testament to the engineers and craftsmanship of those folks. I hope the surprise us and keep on ticking! They are so far out that it takes even the radio signals hours to be received.

[@blasterofmuppets4754]

and today its really hard to get a washing machine that last for more than three years.

[@l.a.2646]

@@blasterofmuppets4754 true, most modern equipment is designed to fail in short time. ..

[@ahambrahmasmi108]

The lightbulb when first mass produced lasted forever. Then, because they started losing money due to low sales as a result of a long lasting product, they purposely put limits on their lifespan.

[@kennypridemore5466]

They forgot to send the record player along with the record !!!! ....Lol !!!! ..... what a bunch of nonsense .... humans won't exist by the time voyeur gets even HALFWAY to our NEAREST STAR ..... let alone outside our galaxy .... and its power will have been long gone way before then .... it will just be another tiny tiny tiny rock in the vastness of space , going nowhere quick .... lol

[@Nero_Coniglio]

@@kennypridemore5466 you don't think that a highly advanced space faring civilization could figure out how to build a device to play the records?

[@danieldevito6380]

How could someone NOT be absolutely fascinated by the universe? Studying the universe is as close to experiencing real magic as you can get. There is nothing more awe inspiring than space.

[@berekexer8158]

Nothing more useless lol. Humans will remain on earth and not interact in any meaningful way with space, not even the moon or mars.

[@1stamendment999]

Especially since Walt Disney had a lot to do with it

[@danieldevito6380]

@@berekexer8158 Do you have any idea how many inventions and technologies came from traveling to space? Radar, MRI, GPS, super strong and light alloys, INCREDIBLY efficient insulators, incredibly strong and heat resistant ceramics, glass that can survive extremely pressures, near complete vacuum, cryogenic temps, intense heat, and extreme temp variations, the discovery of cold welding... The list goes on. Next time, maybe try researching before commenting on something you CLEARLY have no idea what you're talking about. Google and KZbin are free.

[@purplepaps3622]

To me it scary. I honestly hate knowing that life will end at some point, or the earth will be destroyed, or some shat.

[@davidgalloway266]

@@danieldevito6380 damn right. Except radar was a product of British scientists in the 1930s. Otherwise you could easily double the size of your list.

[@cephasmartin8593]

I didn't remember that it's been that long. I'm 73 and I remember when they were launched, seems like just a couple of years.

[@craftywitch]

I just want to say that I love this video, thank you for making it

[@theminisimmer]

I'm a long time Star Trek fan, and my favourite Star Trek series would be "Voyager". It's about a starship that had an original mission of 5 years, but encountered an alien species that had managed to take the ship into the deep reaches of the galaxy. The journey turned from 5 years into a potential 80, and now I understand why the ship is called Voyager

[@RhumRunner41]

V-ger

[@josephwang267]

I remember being excited when "Voyager" was released. It was a bit dry for me, but fine as far as restarts go. "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is my favorite. Seeing Ricardo Montalban (Khan) reprise his original role from ST classic and duel William Shatner (Kirk) in their battle to the death with their huge respective egos and bravado was pretty epic.

[@PhoenixLyon]

@@josephwang267 LOL You nailed it! ✌😸

[@HO-bndk]

Don't the Klingons use one of the NASA Voyager probes for target practice in one of the movies?

[@shanerountree3623]

@@HO-bndk I believe that was actually the Pioneer 10 probe and not one of the Voyager probes.

[@bethica-anncontreras]

I love how informative your videos are and I am still amazed that Voyager I & II are still collecting data after all these years. Thanks for making these great videos.

[@8arrows]

I was born in 73. So much has been seen, learned, and discovered since I was born. The younger generations take for granted the thousands of images of the cosmos. But it wasn’t long ago, that the world was taught. That the Milky Way was the universe. I think about my great grandparents. Who thought every star was just a star. No one heard of galaxies, Let alone seen one. Then Hubble discovered that Andromeda was a galaxy far further out then our Milky Way. And what we were all seeing in the Milky Way, was just our Andromeda like galaxy. It was only 1979 when the world got to see Jupiter up close for the first time during the Voyager 1. The first clear colored image of Mars was 75, during Viking 1. The Mariner 4 did take the first close up photo of Mars in 65. But the black and white image was very defined.

[@alals6794]

The only reason these probes have lasted as long as they have, circa 2024, is because they were not built on the basis of the profit motive. Whereas now, we had 2 private companies sending landers to the one where the first ended before even getting there and the second, Odysseus, landed on its side, blocking its main solar panel such that minimal data was gathered from the lander. And it only managed to land at all because of a secondary system built by NASA, not a private company..... It was later learned that it landed on its side because of cost cutting measures by the private company....haha

[@Jamie_Wulfyr]

Kind of embarrassing that we sent them a record instead of something more hi-tech but that was pretty much the best option considering what was available at the time. I can't see tape behaving well and retaining information for very long in space conditions. Maybe we should make another one with some digitally stored information onboard and keep sending them out everytime technological innovation makes the last model appear less than efficient.

[@bnk091182]

I was 14 when they launched. Didn't think much about it then although we talked about it in science class that year. But looking back, it now occurs to me just how invaluable this exploration proved to be. Great job, friends!

[@timmack2415]

I was 13 and unimpressed. My focus was the girl in homeroom who sat next to me. LoL We are from the generation who saw the biggest technological breakthroughs in history. The girl from homeroom is long gone, but voyager is still amazing us all.

[@nilsingvar7319]

@@timmack2415 Well, only with perspective and experience could you reach the understanding of the magnitude of this advancement and breakthrough. Don't judge 13 year old Tim too hard ;)

[@EWWFFIX7753]

Or maybe the Universe is Electric, check out the Thunderbolts Project.

[@gwgux]

Fascinating! I had no idea the probes were still active being that far out. That's mind blowing in of itself. The people who built those did an amazing job!

[@roylovett4052]

And here I am, can't get a signal anywhere in my house.

[@EWWFFIX7753]

Or maybe the Universe is Electric, check out the Thunderbolts Project.

[@4leggedhomosapiens934]

I really Love your Commentary,,, ❤️❤️ Im a fan of yours for so long,,🥰

[@scpguy1381]

The Voyager probes were originally designed for only 5 years but by the time of launch, that lifespan had been expanded, and was expected to work for much longer

[@unclenogbad1509]

I was fascinated by the possibilities of these missions when they were proposed and launched (the latter when I was 19). Feel privileged to have been able to follow them all this time, and see the data they've sent back. One of the greatest experiments humankind has ever undertaken.

[@FriendlyKat]

The voyagers are extremely important and fascinating. Did you know: In 1990, Voyager 1 turned around to face earth and took the famous, “Pale Blue Dot” photo, after which the camera was turned off to save power and because Voyager 1 is estimated to never pass another astronomical object ever again. The Golden Discs have math problems on them in case they’re ever recovered as math is thought to be a universal language. To think… If humans suddenly vanished, those discs would be the only proof we were real in space. I’m curious if we could get an updated version of Voyager 1 into space with tech similar to that of the newly released James Webb telescope?! Imagine how amazing that would be! It’s a shame these two amazing things will be dead soon. They’ve served humanity well!

[@kirrimkerman8784]

The Golden Record isnt just a record of audio and visual stuff. But a record of our very existence.

[@PutsOnSneakers]

The only thing important is me the bible and your fear of death

[@kirrimkerman8784]

@@PutsOnSneakers lol, nobody cares about you :P

[@FriendlyKat]

@@PutsOnSneakers Nobody asked. Not relevant. Keep your religion to yourself.

[@krashd]

There is already an updated Voyager, it's called New Horizons and it's been on it's way to Pluto since 2006.

[@careless3241]

I was born in 85. Roughly 7 years after these things were launched. And I remember how limited and crappy technology was growing up... What surprises me more than anything is that these things still work at all

[@washcloud]

..."things".....😨 Okay bruh 🙃

[@alexanderlevy158]

Seeing the actual data waves from voyager 2 in the control room was so cool my eyes were popping outa my head.

[@robertberahovich6747]

Strange to think that these 2 probes might outlive humanity.

[@midship_nc]

There's no might about it, they will continue on forever while being slowly eroded/destroyed by micro meteors and dust over the course of a few millennia. Which is orders of magnitude longer than we will be here at the rate we are going lol.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

At the rate we're going, not strange at all lol

[@anonymousfellow8879]

Maybe…until a fast and large enough rock hits them. It’s actually remarkable something hasn’t destroyed them yet

[@thalassaer4137]

@@anonymousfellow8879 theyve got sensors position correctors,..micro meteors tho...well lets hope they got a good enough shielding

[@robertthomas5906]

They'll be dead soon. The power source has been decaying all of these years. At some point soon they'll go dark forever.

[@juni674]

I remember being a sophomore in High School when they launched. I just got my license and this was a big deal back then. Gas was 44 cents a gallon. What is weird is how these welcome mats will outlast our planet. Something to ponder how really small we are.

[@snapmalloy5556]

Same...I was entering my junior year in high school. The fact that they are still at work today is absolutely amazing

[@explorer1968]

One of the Voyager probes was included in the sci-fi movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture! From dreams, scientists have designed and built space probes that expand the reach of Science ever more!

[@christopherallen9580]

Vger searching for the Creator

[@user-it8se1gf3y]

The only explanation why the voyagers last so long is because Nokia helped to built it

[@Swansong-recorders]

Well it is a fact these things, have been flying through our solar system and then beyond. They are now the farthest man made thing's in space, traveling at an impressive 11 miles a second, that's like 36,000 mph. So COOL

[@samwalton4598]

I was a freshman in highschool and lived in central FLorida when the Voyager probes were launched. There was quite a bit of media coverage in the local papers at the time. It is astounding that these probes are still relevant and providing valuable data. Very cool. I grew up watching the shuttle launches in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s from my front door. We are living in the golden age of space exploration, love your channel and keep up the excellent content. 👍

[@chicobicalho5621]

I was wondering, if New Horizons is traveling at a faster speed than the Voyagers, how many years would it take for NH to be farther away from Earth than the two Voyagers. Now, that's a space race!

[@X3MgamePlays]

I wondered that too. It is a fact that this little guy already passed our moon, 9 hours after launch. However, due to missions. It slowed down and will never catch up.

[@hrcnhntr613]

The Voyagers are going at 16.9 and 15.3 km/s whereas New Horizons is going "only" 13.8 km/s. Additionally, New Horizons is under a slightly stronger gravitational pull so it will slow down at a faster rate than the Voyagers.

[@TheAdministration]

In a nutshell, it won't, because of the the gravity assists they received from Jupiter and Saturn.

[@1980999chris]

Deep horizons has ion engines which are more efficient than the nuclear powered voyagers. I think if they sped up NH until it ran out of fuel it would eventually pass them.

[@zqzj]

@@1980999chris you think or you know?

[@jeromevincente2932]

We should recognize the success of Voyagers 1&2 by making them our 49th and 50th star on our national flag! No kidding they are out most relevant stars!!! Alaska and Hawaii would be proud of this representation!

[@hadleyscott1160]

A true Star Trek. Live Long and Prosper everyone. Amazing Science.

[@jaywa101]

Everytime I watch one of your videos I am struck by the quality, professionalism and sheer hard work you put into each one. Excellent voice-over, great production values and really accessible narrative is the proof of good research, writing and editing skills. Great work. Most informative. Very watchable. Well well done.

[@dlibby4979]

I get a mix of emotions when I think of the ships. Drifting through space for hundreds of thousands of years on their own.

[@ChaosXOtaku]

i wonder if we'll send anymore probes outside our solar system as our technology has drastically improved since voyager 1 & 2 were launched

[@fernandobernardo6324]

New Horizons is on its way after visiting Pluto and Ultima-Thule, it will follow the way of the Voyagers with more recent equipment. Also it's travelling considerably faster than both Voyagers and some day it will be farther from the Sun than both.

[@souraday1133]

Very well pointed out. That's the importance of forward-thinking design choices that are beyond the immediate requirement specified. No wonder, NASA has some of the smartest people of this "blue dot" inside our heliosphere ! 💖

[@JonnoPlays]

Voyagers are the GOATs 🐐 🐏

[@fredrickseiler4492]

If humans master FTL travel, we'll catch up to the Voyager probes long before they go any real distance. Even if it takes us 100,000 years to develop it, the Voyager probes will still be relatively very close to Earth.

[@bearcubdaycare]

No need to go even that fast to catch them up (or to travel to the stars even). Accelerate at 1g, and you'd catch them in good time...if headed the same direction.

[@samrowe2889]

Not going to happen and u know why so stop acting like its possible

[@mdmoz1777]

@@nfamousfox6272 It can be done when we attain peace on Earth and goodwill to all.

[@armwrestlingprofessor]

@@nfamousfox6272 physics dictates faster than light travel is impossible. It would require vast amounts of exotic matter with negative mass which requires energy of solar proportion or more

[@chaoshavoc7235]

@@mdmoz1777 peace on earth will never happen.Unless we are all dead.And that has nothing to do with space travel.

[@JacobAnawalt]

“Space is 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's, but that's just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@roccoxxxx1]

this channel is soo good it's hard to believe

[@MelliaBoomBot]

Watching this with 48 hours to go until the James Webb Space Telescope unveils its first images...wow, what a beautiful earth we live on and the treasures to find!!

[@sirarnie9837]

I think it is amazing that after being in space that long that they can still send communications. I know the Webb telescope has been in space for months and it already has been hit with at least 19 micrometeorites. So I'd imagine the Voyage spacecraft had to have been pretty dinged up after 45 years.

[@deth3021]

I think the problem with Webb is that it is close to the earth and moon, so it is in a more dense area. Where as the voyagers are going through much much less dense regions As such they likely hit a lot less debris. I may be wrong though.

[@MrRizeAG]

There's a lot more debris orbiting Earth than there is in open space.

[@nologin5375]

@@deth3021 yes I believe this is correct, there isn’t a whole lot of debris in empty space that you’re likely to run into, it’s mostly around things with gravity like planets.

[@deth3021]

@@nologin5375 the I'm unclear about is, the voyagers did "close" passes on various planets so...

[@nologin5375]

@@deth3021 to my knowledge they mostly just passed by planets, of course also getting the gravity assisted launches from them, the Webb telescope will be in orbit and thus, I imagine, more likely to run in to debris also be drawn in by gravity and debris that’s in orbit. Also the probes where like a couple meters wide and half a meter tall about and the Webb telescope is over 13 meters long and a few meters wide.

[@jclemmer49]

Hey, don’t let them get you down man. I’m 74 laying in bed with a broken back and I like listening to your music so keep it up. By the way, I think you’re funny. Take care.

[@Midwestmama612]

Love this video and kind of content. Reading the feel good comments, I see this content brings nostalgia, different generations coming together, our imaginations running wild,, and no divide. We're all soo small here on earth in comparison to what's out in space that's yet to be explored vs the filth on most socials and comments sections 😂

[@TheBrowncoat2112]

I remember when the first images were coming back from Urania’s and Neptune. There was such as sense of awe and wonder at things we had never seen before.

[@deltamx]

It is uranus

[@MuscleBandit]

Great video. The voyager missions are fascinating, especially when mini documentaries like this are made so well. I also found it very relaxing as well as digestible in layman's terms. Thanks 👍

[@anthonydolio8118]

Very interesting. Well done. Thank you.

[@jasonrubik]

@astrum the Voyager Grand Tour to the Outer Solar System was conceived by Gary Flandro who was the 11th generation pupil of Euler (via Lagrange, Fourier, et al.) who then had a Canadian student at the Univ. of Tennessee, who become famous for making the first music video in space, Chris Hadfield.

[@fecardona]

Thanks Astrum for not being clickbait. It’s all full of clickbaiter channels regarding the Voyager mission discoveries. You did address the discovery properly.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I love that there is like a cell membrane layer around our sun. Our solar system that creates a sorta electric differential between positive charge and negative charge due to the difference between the inner parts of our suns bubble and then the outside of the suns bubble. That's awesome 👍🏻

[@ember-evergarden]

yeah its called fractals.

[@guigs4467]

@@ember-evergarden no ✨

[@tommy-er6hh]

The really odd part is that the Sun flips magnetic field, so out "membrane" flips too!

[@Sypaka]

@@tommy-er6hh I wonder, if this "membrane" spins. It would basically create a magnetic ballbearing as a shield. Which is even wierder. Like our planet and it's surrounding space is not supposed to be there at all, like some foreign object.

[@tommy-er6hh]

@@Sypaka Well, it is not solid and it is some what permeable letting about 30% of cosmic rays all the way to our own Earth. I think of it more as a magnetic very thin cloud of gas than a membrane or ball bearing, since it is the Sun's Exosphere(solar wind).

[@oscardiaz4281]

A video about the Voyager Golden record would be awesome! Thanks for your content!

[@frazerg8303]

Captured my imagination all those years ago and still does today. A magnificent achievement for personkind.

[@raverdeath100]

also on the record - Dark was the Night by Blind Willie Johnson. he was born impoverished, blinded by his stepmother, died penniless and was buried in a now forgotten grave. a recording of his voice will live on forever and may outlive the world that treated him so cruelly.

[@KoewlBag]

One of the best blues songs ever recorded too

[@franciscooctavius5957]

What is simply amazing is our little star can affect space so far beyond its physical realm. Absolutely amazing how big the universe is. I only hope we figure out how to traverse it some day. These probes really should make you appreciate this planet and what it has to offer us. Enjoy!

[@jfo3000]

Check out Thunderbolts Project here on youtube. Theory that is likely correct that all stars are node points in an electromagnetic field. As such are all connected.

[@L1ghtOn3]

Well if you think about it we can see all those stars up there so "Technically" you are connected to them! Now that is Mind Boggling! ✌🏼

[@L1ghtOn3]

@@jfo3000 I will have a look I think this might be the case. I don't think we fully understand the stars and space as much as we "think" we do. Peace ✌🏼

[@jfo3000]

@@L1ghtOn3 Look up lectures by Walt Thornhill. He discusses the electric universe in depth and eschews a purely mechanical model of the universe that is not at all effected by electromagnetic fields. It makes total sense, but mainstream science cannot rock that far at this point.

[@L1ghtOn3]

@@jfo3000 Yeah was watching some last night thanks, seen some of this kinda work a few years ago and the vortex theory is interesting, ever since reading Ohaspe because if life experiences it helped me. Thankyou my friend, yes mainstream science is being drip fed I noticed that at Uni many years ago. Respect ✌🏼

[@GermanShepherd1983]

The mission was always to include leaving the solar system and head for a different star system, that's why the gold record was included.

[@benfordrin6978]

Just imagine, if we some day in the future find a way to travel faster then light, we might be able to catch up and collect those two probes. That would be incredible

[@avishekbiswas9443]

Travelling faster than light sounds impossible as it violates special theory relativity of sir Albert Einstein, but the probability is never 0. Few hundreds years after if we somehow discover any way to make spacecraft that can achive even 99.99% of speed of light. Our existence and intelligence will be worth it.

[@benfordrin6978]

@@avishekbiswas9443 I was thinking about wormhole travelling, where you link two far away points by bending space. I think that might be more realistic or doable then actually lightspeed?

[@idontagree9658]

On a eons time line, why would it require greater than speed of light, when neither probe is traveling at speed of light? A more efficient and advanced hare cant catch 2 - 1970s tortoises? Too long a ROI for a human ...race? 😉

[@yahccs1]

Fascinating! I'm glad you use 'astronomical units per year' which makes more sense considering the scale of the solar system (than using km or miles or fractions of a light year!) I wonder how far away the Pioneer probes are now - even though they lost contact, perhaps someone still has their trajectories calculated. I wonder also if New Horizons will find anything else out there before contact is lost with it. A 1980s programme series "Planets" based on the Voyager mission were a major part in me getting into astronomy when I was at school.

[@jimmynebula]

If I make a paper plane that goes 15 feet I’m proud as hell, imagine the feeling making a probe that is traveling through interstellar space and beyond 😮

[@billybob-ro6qf]

Or they all be lying that space craft crashed in the ocean right after take off. LOL

[@jimmynebula]

@@billybob-ro6qf haha

[@anonymoususer3561]

To be fair as long as you give it a good starting push it will keep going forever

[@meridien52681]

Entire careers have started and concluded within observation and analysis of data from the Voyagers! Incredible.

[@bruceashby6900]

Public information vs genuine information hehe. Voyager's are immortal machines. Excellent work