The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth (like someone did a couple of days ago).
And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.
50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, with only 69 KB of RAM, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use, while nowadays 4 GB of RAM aren't even enough to start VsCode or IntelliJ.
The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.
In #StarTrek#Voyager they visit far away planets and their computers are compatible and they sometimes comment on a race's knowledge of mathematics.
But what's to say the distance planet have the same mathematical system to ours? For example we count in tens and our maths make sense based on that. But what if an alien race counts in 13s or 23s?
Wouldn't that make their maths incompatible to Earth's?
We just finished #StarTrek#Voyager and I have to say I was VERY disappointed with the last episode. TNG did a time travel episode for the endig and it was fun and had quite some inside jokes.
WHY did they have to be so unimaginative to do time travel again???
And don't get me started about the implications about the paradoxa created by that 😩
Finally! I've set up everything, figured out the letter and pillar box cropping of every single episode, and calculated the season averaged AI upscale settings.
Now my computer will spend about 2 weeks upscaling 168 episodes of Star Trek Voyager to full HD. Just like I did with Deep Space Nine this summer. 😊
Power to the Voyager spacecraft!
Over the 45.6 years since launch, Voyager instruments have gradually been shut off as power from the RTG has reduced.
It is almost time for Voyager 2 to shut off another instrument, but #NASA engineers have found a way to keep it going for another 2-3 years. A voltage regulator circuit, that keeps the voltage within limits, will be shut off instead.
See graphic below for Voyager power levels and instrument status. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-will-do-more-science-with-new-power-strategy #Voyager#Space
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#Janeway has done at least four nude scenes ... involving bathing or massages or something -- Which is fine if she is happy to do those scenes ...
But the only #Picard nude scene I remember was when he was being tortured by Cardassians. And he was upside down and shit (and probably a body double).
And I don't remember #Sisko doing any nude scenes.
Have you seen the #Voyager episode Nemesis? What's up with that?
When it finally gets to the point, it's actually a very good idea but I think it takes too long to become interesting
The army Chakotay joins are annoying and their dialogue is terrible. How did they keep a straight face saying things like: 'The next light', 'The trembles', 'Nullified' etc?
They just sound so stupid
I think Voyager needed to enter the story earlier and we see the two sides developing at the same time
Actually, one gripe I have with #StarTrek#TheNextGeneration, #DeepSpaceNine, and #Voyager is that all the captains are intolerant to dissent, and are like: How dare you disobey! There's a rule command!
But then some admiral or viceroy from #Starfleet turns up and the entire crew are like: Ugh! Fucking Starfleet bureaucracy!
And then they disobey orders.
So which is? A rule of command or no rule of command?
I would like some help understanding something, although I'm hesitant to ask. Is the Icheb from last night's #Voyager episode from the same timeline as the Icheb in #Picard?
Die Kreativität der Verantwortlichen in der #Raumfahrt finde ich immer wieder beeindruckend. Was die aus den Geräten herausholen, an die sie nicht herankommen und die teilweise Jahrzehnte alt sind:
#Voyager-Sonden: Weniger präzise Ausrichtung auf Erde soll Lebenszeit verlängern
Voyager 1 und 2 haben ihre geplante Missionsdauer um das Zehnfache überschritten. Um das Ende weiter aufzuschieben, wurde eine weitere Änderung vorgenommen.
We are celebrating Christmas at partner's parents with the same raclette grill as 20 years ago - which is pretty impressive, but not quiet as much as the Voyager spacecrafts 😅 Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 - still working, still teaching us new things about the most external parts of the solar system.
With many thanks to @schnedan for the idea to draw Voyager :)
In the episode where they go into the void, they encounter a species of non-verbal beings who, with the doctor's help (and Seven's who isn't accredited), they develop a language via beep and blips using a handheld device.
So why didn't the universal translator translate that language?
🖖 Seven and Chakotay getting together
🖖 Chakotay
🖖 Harry Kim acting like this wet newby when he's in his late 20s
🖖 Torres not being aggressive enough
Actually, and it still bothers me that in, like, the pilot or something Torres breaks a guy's nose, none of it is shown, and it's treated like: yeah, so what, she broke his nose. I mean, the guy might have been a dick (which wasn't really shown) but a tad disproportionate.