V'Ger seeks the creator

@1 but only after it "may" have met the Borg.

Seriously, those things are really cause some major shit to go down in this part of the galaxy...

Dark Was The Night kind of fits into the soundtrack of Firefly too

Did you know that the Voyagers write to magnetic tape to record their data? They then read the tape and broadcast that data back to Earth? Once the broadcast completes, it begins overwriting the data tape again with new data from it's various sensors. It's been doing this for 40 years. Still working.
#cassettes #rock

Also, thanks to the 'star map' location of our star & planet, it basically give clear instructions to any potentially advanced & hostile alien civilization exactly where to find us. So, better hope that most life in the universe never made it past microbial stage. Or is way more peaceful than us. Given our history of cohabitation on this planet, that's a pretty big hope.

@4:

Even if we utilize a variation of the Drake Equation to factor the potential number of peaceful-to-hostile civilizations out there, I don't think we have much to worry about. We'll probably have blown ourselves to smithereenies with an earth-shattering "Kaboom!" long before any of them would be able to reach us.

SPACE 101.1 FM (LP) will be broadcasting this for 24 hours on December 25, to remind us and celebrate what we all share in common. We'll be streaming by then too, so hope everyone can tune in at some point!

4: Considering it would take Voyager something like 70,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri (and it’s not pointed that way anyhow) I don’t think Voyager is going to tell any secrets.

Has anyone written a science fiction story about aliens finding the Voyager record, and totally misinterpreting the various recordings and images based on their own cultural perspective, to either tragic or comic effect? It seems so obvious, I think someone must have already come up with this idea.

@8,
Well, the first Star Trek film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%…

@9, Good point; funny, I had totally forgotten the alien aspect of that film, until I reread the synopsis. So that does count, although I was imagining something more from an alien's perspective, more of a series of cascading misunderstandings. In Star Trek (if I recall) we only witnessed the aftermath.

@1 @2 Guys, that was Voyager 6! Jeez.

@12,

The nerd is strong with this one...

Why is it always "Voyager this" and "Voyager that" and 'what if Voyager falls into alien hands/claws/tentacles?" Why doesn't anyone ever talk about Jackson Roykirk's Nomad probe? That thing is going to cause a LOT of problems in about 250 years.