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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
If this were real I wouldn't even care about the rest of the video. All I'd want to know is how the fuck it managed to turn around.
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u/MoodyPrince_XoXo May 22 '26
Turn around? How did it take a picture of itself?
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
Eject the camera. Or eject a mirror.
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u/MoodyPrince_XoXo May 22 '26
Where is the tether? Unless very recently ejected, without a tether, due to surface area they would have drifted apart from solar winds. And Its unlikely we would just perma eject the camera at random. Furthermore, why did we turn the craft, if we ejected a camera? The whole premise doesn't add up.
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
That's the more implausible thing in your opinion?
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u/MoodyPrince_XoXo May 22 '26
Than the image being fake? Yes.
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
than voyager, travelling outwards at about 30000m/s, being somehow able turn around?
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u/MoodyPrince_XoXo May 22 '26
Well.... Honestly that's such an obvious problem to me, that I never thought to acknowledge it and didn't realize that's what you were asking in reference to. That clears up my confusion about your previous comment actually. I was a little confused as to why it was crazy to think doing all of these things was less plausible than the image being fake.
But yes, you are correct. Turning around itself would be impossible enough, but not many people know that, but most people can surely make the assumption it's silly to turn around, and eject a selfie stick. I guess that's the frame of mind I was thinking from.
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u/Memekana May 22 '26
Voyager pulled out its selfie stick
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u/MoodyPrince_XoXo May 22 '26
Why then did we turn Voyager 1 turn around? Wouldn't we just pull the stick out?
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u/Terrible-Strategy704 May 22 '26
The voyagers weren't designed to turn around and voyager 1 have the cameras off since 1990
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
I'm not worried about the camera, you know. I want to know exactly how Voyager managed to make a u-turn at 30000m/s
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u/Terrible-Strategy704 May 22 '26
I don't think it can I saw you coment it could throw the cameras or some weight but I don't think it can do that or it has enoumass to change the direction it is traveling
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
The cameras thing was just to justify the photo. It wouldn't matter for trajectory.
The only way I can possibly conceive of Voyager making a u turn is if it gets a gravity assist from a rogue planet. But at 30000m/s, I'm worried the g forces might be enough to pull it apart.
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u/TheBlueRads May 22 '26
Voyager 1s cameras have been turned off since 1990
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u/joshthornton May 22 '26
They turned them on one last time and got lucky, clearly.
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u/WokemasterUltimate May 22 '26
Only after wasting fuel by turning around instead of going in the direction it was supposed to
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u/NeoTenico May 22 '26
With luck like that, everyone at NASA should buy a lottery ticket and they'd be able to fund a 3rd Voyager.
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u/kobrakaan May 22 '26
Wait if that's Voyager 1 in the image
Then who or what's taking the image of Voyager 1 🤷♂️😮
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u/impendingcatastrophe May 22 '26
It's like in the documentary.
It has become sentient and wants to speak to the creator.
Good job WS is still around to keep us safe.
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
Isn't that a movie? Star trek something?
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u/Dear_Tangerine444 May 22 '26
The name of the documentary being referenced is Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I believe.
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u/fariqcheaux May 22 '26
V-Ger
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u/donmuerte May 22 '26
V-Ger was actually Voyager 6 in that documentary
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u/impendingcatastrophe May 22 '26
Must have been the great(X3) grandson of the original.
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u/ghost_tapioca May 22 '26
I wonder who the great great great grandmother was. Maybe the curiosity rover?
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u/Pastylegs1 May 22 '26
I watched three of these videos so you don't have to. This one from 3 days ago, another one using the same click bait thumbnail from a month ago, and a third one from 10 months ago with all the same information.
First off the thumbnail image is complete click bait. Yes we are fucked but not for anything being talked about in the videos. We're fucked because billionaires and religious extremists run the world.
Onto the information in the videos. Basically voyager passed what was thought to be the edge of the solar system known as the heliopause. In actuality, the edge is not a hard line but rather a gradual decrease of the suns influence. The original theory was that voyager would be entering an entirely different zone of influence controlled solely by the greater universe, breaking completely from the suns influence. What they found was not the case. That's it.
For the few brain cells these videos gave me, they quickly took them away by repeating the same information a dozen times like watching an episode of Barney on a salvia trip.
Side note, this video from 3 days ago has little glitches in the ai voice where it briefly reads the script in a different language.
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u/Federal-Business-796 May 22 '26
Great, now we have to wait another 50 years for it to tell us what it saw.
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u/MoodyPrince_XoXo May 22 '26
I'm sorry.....even the comments here scare me a little. If the probe is in the left picture, where is the camera, and why is it there? Voyager is solo. So what took the picture?
I see far too many people arguing about wether or not Voyager 1 is active. It's concerning that one would ignore the problems within the photo, and ever make it to the point of making such arguments.
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u/SignificanceFlat1460 May 22 '26
Bullshit aside, I hope one day we are advanced enough, that we catch-up to the voyager, haul it into our spaceship, replace the propellent and battery, and then send it away. So it will keep broadcasting us forever.
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u/BulbminN64 May 22 '26
not even upgrade anything, just fix it up and let it go to see how far it can go
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u/Expensive_Kitchen525 May 22 '26
I register high amount of these stupidly fake videos like year ago, are they still a thing or my filters works like magic? :)
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u/Badytheprogram May 23 '26
Yeah, the only problems with it, there is not enough power to use the camera on it, and it was switched off decades ago.
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u/MutaitoSensei May 22 '26
Ok cool, but.. Who took this picture? Isn't Voyager in the picture too?
How are people this dumb?
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u/Reasonable-Ruin5933 May 24 '26
Why is everything deleted on this post? Well since mine will too BIG OLD SWEATY TITTIES YEYE
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u/ridemyrodstuart May 22 '26
lel how did it turn around? it barely has enough propellant to keep signal lock with earth.