14 thoughts on “Voyager 1 Speed

  • 7/3/2008 at 7:03 pm
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    Do we know this? Or is it so far away that we can’t even communicate with it anymore? In that case, it could have been found my aliens gotten sucked into a black hole (not possibly, actually, but pretend) or something.

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  • 7/3/2008 at 8:50 pm
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    I like what they did with it in the first Star Trek movie. At least, I think it was the first movie. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched them.

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  • 7/3/2008 at 9:32 pm
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    Fun fact – I’ve been clocked at nearly 10,000 mph while pursuing the neighborhood turbocharged ice-cream truck.

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  • 7/3/2008 at 11:35 pm
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    Yes, we do know this because we are still in contact with it. Presumably it will reach the heliosphere (the point where our sun’s solar wind is no longer strong enough to push outwards against the blackness) before we expect to have any big issues.

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  • 7/8/2008 at 9:18 am
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    VYGER must unite with the creator!

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  • 7/8/2008 at 11:39 am
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    [big numbers]mph doesn’t seem so impressive to me; thanks to Google calculator though, I now know that Voyager is going at 17.36 km/s. Seventeen kilometers PER SECOND. Holy crap.

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  • 7/8/2008 at 2:57 pm
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    Also cool is that this is over 10 times faster than a bullet.

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  • 7/8/2008 at 7:03 pm
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    Wow, that’s Seattle to Brighton in under 8 minutes.

    (I went to some big ultimate tournament this weekend. Insane. 100 teams.)

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  • 7/10/2008 at 12:06 pm
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    Yup. Potlatch.

    I didn’t play, but UUIG did. I watched, and I got to go to the big after party thing at Red Hook Brewery. Also, one of the guys on her team modified a gas-powered weedeater into a margarita blender!

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  • 7/10/2008 at 8:01 pm
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    Cool. I’ve heard a lot about Potlatch (biggest tournament in the world or something?). Never been, but I probably know a few people who were there.

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  • 7/13/2008 at 3:31 pm
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    A fast bullet (e.g. 30.06). A 9mm handgun only shoots 800-900mph.

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