pips@lemmy.film to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoVoyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probewww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1888arrow-down19
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minus-squareScanzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoPretty crazy that it takes over 17 hours just to send a signal all the way to Voyager 2.
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoEach way. It would take 34 hours to get confirmation that your signal has been received. And Voyager 1 is even further away. Relevant XKCD:
Pretty crazy that it takes over 17 hours just to send a signal all the way to Voyager 2.
Each way. It would take 34 hours to get confirmation that your signal has been received.
And Voyager 1 is even further away.
Relevant XKCD:![Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog.](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d0/exoplanet_high_5_2x.png)