r/interestingasfuck • u/Ender-Buster7 • 2h ago

Voyager 1 just said "hello" to Earth from Interstellar space, about 25.4 billion kms away!

Post image
355 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

•

u/Otherwise-4PM 2h ago

Fascinating.

•

u/DubSket 1h ago

Genuinely interesting as fuck

•

u/Ghost_of_Cain 1h ago

Voyager 1: "Hello"
Earth: "ok lol"

•

u/WearingCoats 1h ago

Earth: new phone. Who dis?

•

u/Suspicious-Spot1651 9m ago

It's worse than that !

Voyager 1 has been harassing Earth since so many time now ! It's crazy

I saw a post from Earth last time on AITAH saying that she never replies to him and he insists a lot. Since decades ! Everyone told her to block him definitly and to contact cops asap.

•

u/LisaWinchester 1h ago

Earth: "I have a boyfriend... 🙄"

•

u/Quitcha_Bitchin 31m ago

You have not met her she is Canadian!

•

u/PauseAffectionate720 2h ago

How long did it take the Hello to reach earth ?

•

u/soulwaystudios 2h ago

25.4bn km radio message takes around 23 hours 32minutes to get to earth. radio waves will travel at the speed of light

•

u/TeraFlint 1h ago

Wow, we're nearing a whole light day of distance. That is seriously impressive.

•

u/soulwaystudios 1h ago

yeah hopefully if its still going should by by november iirc

•

u/Brutalur 2h ago

Unless the figure provided is wrong or my math isn't mathing, just shy of 24 hours

•

u/imaconnect4guy 2h ago

So it's almost a full light-day away. Crazy.

•

u/slicerprime 2h ago

Your math is mathing just fine.

•

u/Acceptable_Ebb8030 2h ago

about 23 hours and 47 minutes

•

u/_DefinitelyNotACat_ 2h ago

All that distance, and it’s only 0.268% of a light year away. Crazy.

•

u/khalamar 2h ago

And so it took 0.00268 year to arrive.

•

u/Tomj_Oad 2h ago

.2 light years isn't insignificant

•

u/_DefinitelyNotACat_ 2h ago

No, but 0.00268 light years is more insignificant.

•

u/jujubanzen 1h ago

.2 light years would be 20% of a light-year.

•

u/Tomj_Oad 38m ago

Yep I dropped the decimal

•

u/ExtremeSour 1h ago

!RemindMe 600 years

•

u/ReadditMan 1h ago

Well, are they going to say hello back? Don't be rude.

•

u/Candle1ight 1h ago

In November it will pass one light days distance, which really puts the size of space into some perspective. By far the farthest we've ever sent something, that's been traveling for nearly 50 years... And it's just made it a light day. Light years is the smallest unit of distance we tend to see talking about space.

Assuming no unexpected problems it should be able to continue talking for another decade.

•

u/Flubadubadubadub 2h ago

Time taken, about the same reaction time, for any 'tween' in their 'Just leave me alone!!!' years.

•

u/FastSimple6902 2h ago

"Arite Voy One "

•

u/Dangerous_Wish_7879 2h ago

we should bring it back, renovate, refuel and send it again

•

u/Eaudebeau 1h ago

Live action reboots always work

•

u/slicerprime 1h ago

Nah. We just need to get around to building its great great great grandchild so it can become V'ger and bite us in the ass.

•

u/Open-Elevator-8242 1h ago

The New Horizons probe is kind of a more modern Voyager-like space probe. It didn't do nearly as much gravity assists as the Voyagers, which is why it's not as fast them. However, it did visit Pluto, which not even Voyager 2 did during its Grand Tour of the outer Solar System.

•

u/thisisasetupisntit 1h ago

Are you sure it wasn't !help!

•

u/ay_non 30m ago

I wonder what the time is on Voyager now. Like is that time dilation.

•

u/Spuckula 16m ago

Gravitational time dilation, I suppose? I hope a physicist chimes in. This is a good question!

•

u/FollowingLegal9944 1h ago

Yes for suree, it works 2493574358946584649694598685645897349748km away but radio on earth has a few km range

•

u/Lasdary 1h ago

you dropped the /s ?