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The Coolest Picture of Earth

Taken from Voyager 1 at the end of our solar system 4 billion miles away in 1990. Earth is that little white speck apparently.

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4/3/2009 7:03:16 AM

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The Living End : LVL 58: VP 5: said:

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235 days 19 hours ago...

The cool thing is the radioactive material that powers this thing still has enough juice in it for the next at least the next 16 years. Hopefully what`s left of the rest of the instrumentation will be able to hold out for that long.

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tom. : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

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233 days 4 hours ago...

I can see the earth... I can`t see the coolness

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Katsuro : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

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233 days 3 hours ago...

^ Fail. Seriously dude.

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Joner : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

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233 days 3 hours ago...

Focus!

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Gambit Xe : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

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233 days 3 hours ago...

Is that the earth or just my screen being dusty

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the_game_2626 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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233 days 3 hours ago...

wow. that is freakin cool

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a level maths : LVL 6: VP 1.5: said:

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233 days ago...

what are the rays?

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I ManBearPig L : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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232 days 23 hours ago...

^They`re cosmic

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SoN oF Da PI : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

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232 days 21 hours ago...

Hey The Living End...if there`s still enough "juice" for that thing to stay powered for the next 16 years, why don`t scientist or whoever use that "juice" to power the houses and electrical appliances on earth?

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Swishy! : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

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232 days 20 hours ago...

^because theres no fucking wire between this thing and earth.

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Major Lozer : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

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232 days 20 hours ago...

^^^^LOL wow you just found the fix for the lack of jobs and the door knob above you figured out how to fix the energy shortage.
LOL

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The Living End : LVL 58: VP 5: said:

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232 days 19 hours ago...

@ SoN oF Da PI

Because it`s radioactive and doesn`t produce that much power.

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Khollest : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

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232 days 19 hours ago...

^^ Specificlly, it uses radioactive decay in a thermopile to generate energy. The downfall here is the half-life decays with the stated output. While Voyager still has power, it is roughly 15-20% of the output it had at launch in 1977. In the late 90`s we started shutting down sub-systems to keep her on-line. We would love to give her a change of batteries but lets face it, at 110AU (thats ~17 billion km or 1,430,000 trips around the eq. of Earth) a service call is out of the question.

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