I'm fascinated by the SETI talking to Whales story. I think we could learn a lot if we could communicate effectively with some of the smartest species on Earth.

@frasercain

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, it's a great opportunity.

@skullpoker69

6 ай бұрын

You mean Mice? "So long and thanks for all the fish." is the greatest break-up line in human history, fyi.

@physicswcccd

6 ай бұрын

The description of the limited conversation with a whale reminds me of the times me and my dogs howl together. The whale (slowed down) even sounded like them.

@dr.swaster8763

6 ай бұрын

If we can’t figure out how to communicate with equivalent species on our own planet, how can we ever expect to speak to aliens.

@skullpoker69

6 ай бұрын

@aregeebee201 so we're basing communication on plankton? 3PO was right. We're doomed

I was a kid when the Voyagers were making their "Grand Tour" and how I would be so excited to get the National Geographic magazines with all the pictures.

@nicholashylton6857

6 ай бұрын

I read those too! (I might have a copy in a box somewhere.)

@skullpoker69

6 ай бұрын

NEPTUNE ALL NIGHT!!! PBS is king

@petevenuti7355

6 ай бұрын

Astronomy magazine too

I am totally with you. I always had a soft spot for the Voyagers and it breaks my heart that they are coming to an end of their scientific mission. But then I rejoice, they exceeded their planned life by decades and are still sending information after 46 years. I just hope they make it to 50.

@zenithperigee7442

6 ай бұрын

@stoffls, I thought I posted my comment.🤔People can look at real-time data just search "Mission Status Voyager". IIRC V2 actually launched before V1 and V1 is some ~15 B miles (24 B km) away which even after ~46 yrs that's still just a fraction of a single light year & yet we talk about objects in our own solar system being hundreds/thousands of light years away just as we are believed to be situated around 26,000 LYs from the center of our galaxy so that's ~153 quadrillion miles (244.8 quadrillion km) and V1/V2 have only traveled about 13.5 BILLION miles (21.6 B km) avg between the two. So the center of our galaxy is about 12,000 times that or the equivalent of ~523 MILLION years away at the avg speed of those vehicles traveling ~35K-40K mph (~56K-64K km/h) We know they can use planetary gravity to "sling-shot" spacecraft to higher speeds but that also takes more time. We really need better systems of propulsion if we want to make more meaningful exploration of space both manned/unmanned. Frankly, I was a bit surprised with the talk of V1/V2 being older tech, slowly depleting power etc., that they haven't launched new probes with our more advanced tech. I know they have several spacecraft/telescopes out there and though they're reported to have seen much further than our spacecraft have been, it'd be best to actually send the physical spacecraft to investigate phenomenon up close.

Voyage down? 1's & o's? Is this the origin of Star Trek: The motion picture?

@oberonpanopticon

6 ай бұрын

Not to mention the talking to whales

@oldyoungArt

6 ай бұрын

You mean Vegar😄

@rodclark4960

6 ай бұрын

Life imitates art, very astute

@mhult5873

6 ай бұрын

@@oldyoungArt Vger (Voyager 6) :)

@slo3337

6 ай бұрын

Our only hope lies in the one man who lays with many women. William Shatner.

Voyager are legends and will always be remembered the fact they are still running is amazing, if everything was made so well today it would be amazing my mum had a tumble dryer for 32 years worked fine just the faded colour didn't match her new kitchen new one lasted 3 years lol

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx

6 ай бұрын

Thats the norm and thats evil. Looks like their selling out the planet. 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

@leecowell8165

6 ай бұрын

I hear you. We had a dryer that lasted over 25 years. Harvest Gold before it started rusting. I replaced the bearings that supported the drum and the belt a coupla times. When we sold the place it had to stay there or we'd still probably have it!

'Voyager 1 sending back a repeating string of jibberish' Welp. I've got a movie script idea.

@oberonpanopticon

6 ай бұрын

Might be a bit late for that!

@FleshWizard69420

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like the start of a cosmic horror

Voyager is the best example of humanity. Thank you to everyone involved.

Voyager 1 computer, older than Commodore 64. 😉

@eightsprites

6 ай бұрын

But is it as good… they should have put a SID chip on voyager.. think of voyager floating in space playing chip music to entertain itself.

Growing up in the Cape Canaveral area, I always had a soft spot for the Voyagers (which were sent in reverse order first Voyager 2 then 1) just shy of my 17th birthday (As I recall, I skipped school that day for Voyager 1 but not 2) so I was able to drive on my own to go watch them in Titusville. I never dreamed they would last this long.

Friggin' love your channel. I caught the IT Crowd visual, good stuff! When I was growing up in the 70's I craved stuff like this so much but information was so limited and hard to come by. What it must be like to grow up now, I can't even imagine.

@frasercain

6 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. It's almost overwhelming now.

When I worked at JPL I recall reading that the Voyager instrument computer packages had redundant backup systems. It will be interesting to know how often the FDS #2 and the TMU #2 were used in the past. Also, the power output from the RTGs has been reduced to try and prolong the flight for as long as possible... maybe boost the power to the thermal blanket to see if the extra warmth will help the FDS recover.

This was always coming, nothing lasts forever, but the wealth of information we have gathered from these explorers, has made us more self aware, what an awesome achievement, a legacy we can all be proud of. There would have been countless people involved in this, I salute them all. Thanks for the video.

I'm still awed by the images of Neptune from Voyager 2. It will certainly be a sad day when they finally pull the plug on these amazing spacecraft. To think what they have done with their limited technology is amazing.

I appreciate you and the work you do Mr. Cain. 🌎 💫

Man, I love your videos so much! The interviews are great too, and so awesome not to have annoying KZread sponsorships midway through. Biggups dude, keep them coming

The Voyagers are perhaps the most important space missions of all time. Imagine the onboard computers from the 70s, operating the probes all this time. Godspeed, Voyager 1.

Oh, your last point made is something I don't need to prepare for. I have expected the Voyagers to die for a decade, now. They have outperformed their intended lifespan by such an ASTOUNDING degree that we cannot possibly be disappointed in them, no matter how short their remaining time is, at this point! And... by what clues you gave, I can safely say you are 5 years younger than I am, LOL! So I remember all of those points in each Voyager's missions with great clarity, too, and was old enough when they first took off to have magazines (Omni is one, and one I still miss - RIP Omni) detailing their whole mission, step by step. I remember them giving the present day's dates for them crossing beyond each point over and above their planned missions, when they fully expected that the Voyager pair would now only be carrying those famous records with our information on them out to the void, and be unable to tell us anything at all. And here we are, still getting communications from them‽ Amazing!

hey man. i appreciate your efforts. you're like the backbone for so much in the space world. your heart is in a good place and it is appreciated

Great channel that I've just subscribed to after being a casual viewer for quite a while. I particularly like your long form interviews with some really interesting space/science engineering types. More of those please! And meantime, you've definitely earned by sub.

Let’s say hypothetically something actually came across voyager 1, I wonder if they tried to communicate back what that would look like…imagine the binary code says “is this yours?” Haha 😂

@FHT1883

6 ай бұрын

"we've been trying to contact you about your Space Probe's extended warranty"

@ChemEDan

6 ай бұрын

@@FHT1883 #contact

@ARWest-bp4yb

6 ай бұрын

@@FHT1883 🤣🤣🤣🤣

We love all the interviews keep them coming! But I’m not opposed to ads in the middle of them. I watch all your ads as a small form of support

@joebloggs396

6 ай бұрын

Watching ads on KZread rewards KZread for allowing bigoted hate filled channels.

Thanks for the info you provide. I keep thinking that yours is one place I can get the data in understandable form. The kilonova news is helpful; it may explain other things that are happening within range of our instruments. Good on you!

Wow, the story of the whale song communication was very interesting!

4:00 The line of stars between galaxies sounds like the slime mold model of the universe! It's alive!

A fascinating video as always. It's always a pleasure to log into your videos. One thing I did notice is that you stated that the half life of Fe 60 is 1.5 million years; whilst I agree that this was once its surmised half life, it was re-assessed some years ago to be 2.6 million years.

The trouble with gyroscopes is that you keep having to send up spacemen to pull the string.

I was on the Voyager mission control team for 3 of the 4 encounters. DSE was the data systems engineer and one of my systems was the FDS. I have to admit at 77, I can't remember much about the system. But I know it was designed using very old tech, had a custom-designed computer because there were no micro-computers at that time. In fact, The 1st microchip was in 1971 and Voyager was mostly finished design by then and probably in production by then. It is kind of thrilling to me that the Voyagers are still returning important scientific data. JPL has repaired many S/C over the years that seemed impossible to fix. For example, look up Galileo Spacecraft Antenna for a really interesting problem/solution. I was a mission controller (ACE) on the extended mission.

That Cassiopeia-A photo is just stunning! what an age we live in. I cant wait to see what the next couple decades bring

So much information, you ROCK Frasier!!😎

Cheers for the updates 👍👍👍

I love how quickly Fraser can say "habitable". Like, twice as fast as I can.

@rodclark4960

6 ай бұрын

I think he fixes his face and blows out like Yosemite Sam.

Great show Fraser!

Could you make a compilation of the "What are you currently obsessed with?" questions you ask your interviewees? These are often my favorite bits.

Wow Frasier what emotional chapter all The news were amazing .

0:40 ~ Nice graphic analogy. :)

Question: what remains from that “nearby” kilonova? Did it become a black hole? Another, larger neutron star? After 3-4 M years, how far away is it? Could we detect it looking for gravitational lenses?

We need to send a mission to fix and uplift Voyager with sentient A.I. we could name it... I dunno... VGER?

for the record, plutonium 238 has a halflife of 87 years, so we are only half way through one halflife, so in 40 years its still going to have 50% of its original power output in theory, so perhaps they could make some sort of extra low power mode and keep it going for many more moons

@zapfanzapfan

5 ай бұрын

The thermocouples (turning heat flow into electricity) also degrade unfortunately.

Recently read an article that class3 stars were so massive that they produced heavier neutron rich elements that continued with fusion but also produced fission and it was this that upheld the star's mass against collapse after fussion to iron and nickel etc.. Haven't worked this through yet. Suggestions anyone?

"NASA help line. How can I help you? " "Um, yeah. Hi. This is Voyager control. Um, we lost readable data from the FDS. It's just sending out ones and zeros which are Completely unintelligible. What should we do now?" Have you tried turning it off and then on? " "Yes, of course we did." "Have you checked all of the cables to see if are plugged in? The power cables? The radio cables? the modem cables? And the computer cables?" "Um, no. We haven't tried that". " Great. Try that ". And hangs up. Voyager mission control turns to the Voyager team and says, "They said to just check out All of the cable connections! And then they just hung up!". Everyone just looks around at each other looking the question of" huh??"

Stepping stones, love it Fraser, what does Prof David Kipping think about the Exo Moon findings.

Cassiopeia-A by JWST loved this episode of Space-Bites Awesome vid

“Admiral! There be Whales here!”🐋🐳🖖♾

Thanks for referring to us as Octopuses, as opposed to Octopi. That's what we prefer 18:33

Thank goodness, it's just a glitch! I was so worried that V-1 had fallen prey to Klingon target practice. 50 years is a long time for a space probe to be still functioning. Good luck, Voyagers! Phone home when you can. Love, Luke Earthwalker. Coma cluster: Some Clarke-tech civilisation has decided to build a bridge between their old galaxy and the new one they are colonizing. That's really neat!

Fantastic thanks for sharing

@frasercain

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I'd say the octupuses are the real aliens but whales studies are also pretty exciting.

When that day comes and they turn off either one of the Voyager spacecraft I know I will personally cry. I will cry because the thought of being all by yourself so far away from home is a very powerful thought. So to imagine two spacecrafts in that situation, with abandoned technology on board, is such a sad thought.

I love watching your vids

Fraser, if it comes down to it, can Hubble be reparied by manned mission again? We don't have the space shuttle, any longer, so how can we get up there to fix it if it came down to it?

This guy is so good at teaching, because even I am learning. :)

I think ive watched every episode for the last year. Its a great channel. Maybe you can answer a question? I would like to contact astronomers and ask if they know if anyone is taking " "Time Lapse" photography of gas clouds, pulsars and the like to see the actual movement of these objects. The big gas clouds look turbulent but gas also can sit around looking turbulent. There has to be a lot of stuff moving away from super novas. This would make some award winning video clips. I also wonder if any observatories ever get together to point at the same place and same focal length to make stereoscopic images

In the short term, learning to communicate with whales and decipher the communication systems of other animals are probably the most important things we can do to prepare ourselves for contact with aliens. And it will help us learn to coexist with our neighbors here, which is just as important.

I was born before Explorer 1 was delayed a couple of days to allow Sputnik to overfly the U.S. without complaint from the U.S. in order that the U.S.S.R. could not complain about Explorer overflight. Thus began the space races. Just helping the analytics here. I enjoy your work even though some of it breaks my brain. Keep it up, it helps me stay sharp.

question for the q&a show: can we imagine using gravitational waves to "x-ray" the black holes? what happens when a gravitational wave approaches a black hole? any chance it doesn't "simply" fall into it's gravity well and is just gone?

Crewed Dragon. Fix Hubble. We can do it. Barely, but it's possible. Also holy smokes. Whales talking to "Chat GPT". That is genuinely incredible. That's so unbelievably cool.

@frasercain

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it would be a great challenge to show what Crew Dragon can do

Hey im 12 years(ik im young) but when i grow up i want to be an astronaut . Ik its a risk but its worth it. If not an astronaut, a researcher. You inspire me do keep it up please

I follow with interest your work, lectures, and interviews. You have informed inspired me. my heartfelt thanks. With indulgence, ive a few but two questions: dark energy the resultant increase in the rate of expansion ? of the universe is actually the result of the cumulative, compounding and evolving emissions of all cosmic objects along with the compounding number of gravitational waves snapping on space/time pushing it further out radially? For this to be possible, the universe must be expanding at different rates in different locations due to the amount of mass capable of emitting energy in that location, like wind on a sail. Measured on a scale of 13.8 billion years. More raindrops may cause a flood to rage faster in areas of more moving mass. Do the interaction of constantly produced nuetrinos create space time and therefore explain the expansion of the universe, and the increasing complexity of the universes cosmic objects and therefore emitters of nutrinos, account for the current increase in the speed of expansion that is observed? The universe began as a seed that was cast into a reactive medium and we are growing. What if particles or molecules emit a hum the frequency and therefore density of which has variability based on , and that chorus of the local particles is what we call space/time that is being emitted. The magnetism of the interaction binds the particles which continue to hum, emitting space time. Larger concentrations of spacetime are dark matter. Big bang nucleosynthesis. Alpha Beta Gama Paper. Get it. What emits nutrinos? If the emission of nutrinos that together create resonance that cumulatively affect the mass emitting it, small variations in the number of emitters would expand space time more in those areas pushing the emitters closer together and in a domino effect this artifice would be formed into filaments and bulges, which is what we see. Is gravity the resonance created by the strength of the magnetism of the mass. And the outward flow of the the neutrino field the “pressure” that locks the hum of the mass into a distance or location that is held in tension between magnetism and the neurtrinos hold.

I always get sad when they have to shut down a successful space probe. I remember when Opportunity 'died' I actually cried about it.

@SidMajors

6 ай бұрын

Had the same with Cassini 😢

@BigBoaby-sg1yo

6 ай бұрын

@@SidMajors especially the one CGI ‘ image ‘ of Cassini with a clearly CGI image of Saturn with earth in the background 😂😂😂😂😂

@SidMajors

6 ай бұрын

@@BigBoaby-sg1yo Gatekeeping in astronomy.. Pathetic.

@hive_indicator318

6 ай бұрын

I've heard that "Good Night, Oppie" is super good. My mom said it made her cry, and she's not into space at all

Love the idea of communicating with the wales.

Hello, i have a question if we observe exoplanet by the change in light as it passes in front of its host start. does that mean we can only detect exoplanet with orbit plane that are parallel to our line of sight meaning if the same planet had a perpendicular orbit to our line of sight ! we would not see the dip in light meaning we don't detect it even though its there, so there is a chance that we will never detect half of the exoplanet based on that criteria !

Unfortunately Webb's pictures don't give that hype appeal as with Hubble's, since they are processed from IR. That's why I'm hyped for future optical telescopes as LUVOIR.

@filonin2

6 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself. Why would that even matter? You can't see either thing with your eyes.

@BigBoaby-sg1yo

6 ай бұрын

@@filonin2yup ! It’s all BS 😂😂😂

@17:13 I also make that sound when I can't figure out a problem at work.

Sweet sentiment at the end about the Voyagers eventually going dark.

Do the Voyagers have an onboard battery that can charge up on power from the RTG, even if it has to take a very very long time to do so with the diminishing rate, and then send communications back periodically? If they do have them, is the power level dropping so much that even this is not possible?

RIP Voyager 😔 You, Fraser, please rock on 🤗

I love the idea of a galactic bridge built of star systems that connect them, possibly a sign of a immensely advanced species that has already reached that level?

@Roguescienceguy

6 ай бұрын

Maybe that's why we recently spotted a substantial amount of F-type stars leaving the Galaxy for no real obvious reasons?

Whew, that nebula photo is a corker!

lol that last Vyger reference 😅

This vide is NOT sponsored by Adblock plus, firefox, sponsorskip and pi-hole...because screw KZread's latest mega ads everywhere push!

So, if Cassiopeia A's supernova explosion had a light delay so that it did not reach us until around A.D. 1600, that means that the ancient astronomers, particularly the Greeks who described and named this constellation, saw something different! Now, I still do not see a lady in a chair, even with a star there, but it reminds to not look at the sky as it now is, but instead as it was a few thousand years ago, in order to try to make sense of the constellation names.

Re your comments about old spacecraft. Viking landed on Mars and I bought a NASA publication which provided glasses to view special pictures in the book, in 3D. It really gave me an idea of what Mars was like. Have they done anything like that again with more recent spacecraft?

@zapfanzapfan

5 ай бұрын

Brian May (also guitarist in Queen) was involved in New Horizon and he made some calendar or book with images from Pluto with some kind of 3D-glasses included. I haven't seen one myself but I remember him talking about it in some interview.

great idea about talking to whales/aliens

If Voyager 1 fails it will be very sad. However, V1 IS really old. I has performed remarkably beyond its expected lifespan.

@zapfanzapfan

5 ай бұрын

46 years into its 4 year mission.

Thanks.

That spacecraft exceeded all expectations.

Perhaps they should now replace the failed gyros with ring lasers instead of the mechanical ones. They are now accurate enough and (mostly) have no moving parts.

@oberonpanopticon

6 ай бұрын

Would that cost money?

You made me just think of something, I wonder if there are any gaseous moons out there..

Do the Voyagers have a mechanism to charge their batteries over a long period of time, then turn on only to make measurements and send them back home before the battery runs out? It could be a fixed time period, so ground antennas would know when to listen. Are they in this mode already and even that is running out of power?

@frasercain

6 ай бұрын

You can't recharge decaying plutonium.

Thank the stars for Hubble coming back but voyagers only have so long and there's so little we can do for them it could really be lost just like that

i was wondering why they dont include some backup non mechanical gyros in telescopes and probes. Are laser Gyros that much worse?

8:41 so if we had spaceships like Enterprise…. If the gas is 30 million Kelvin, could our space ships fly through it without melting? How do we go through space with hot and cold " stuff " out there?

@filonin2

6 ай бұрын

The gas is very thin so very little heat would transfer.

Wonder if people are animating the xray-visible-infrared photos so as to provide a means of showing the progression through the frequencies? Like, even a thumb wheel slider on a web page would be fun

Whales helping us to talk to aliens you say? Sounds kind of familiar almost like the main plot of a Star Trek movie involved that. 😂

Fraser: I'm wondering why you won't let us watch a certain video about a certain type of rocket engine. It's marked private now. Is that intended? Enjoyed that video and wanted some friends to see it.

Fraser Cain, You sir, RULE!

Wouldn't it be wild if we just so happened to evolve on an earth where alpha centari was a red supergiant like Betelgeuse that we came to understand would "soon" (cosmologically speaking) detonate? There would be absolutely nothing we could do about it, and every generation for thousands of years would live their lives fearing it would happen during their lifetime. Makes me wonder how many civilizations of beings in our [possibly] infinite universe have had to actually live through such a reality.

The problem of lubricating bearings in the vacuum of space has been surprisingly resistant to solutions, despite the vast sums of money riding on them. Failing reaction wheels and gyros are probably the #1 killer of satellites.

Voyagers 1 and 2, on the ocean!

I’d love to see a videographic simulation of a Voyager spacecraft undergoing a billion years of weathering. It could also be inspiring to simulate how ancient space probes or vessels with various design elements would appear to us upon discovery in the Solar System, including different origins, failure modes, evolutions in attitude, and histories of intervening weather.

Would there be any value in launching a voyager like probe perpendicular to the galactic plane? I know dV requirements would be crazy, but would we stand to gain anything different by going straight "up"?

@sunriselg

6 ай бұрын

Do you mean solar plane rather than galactic plane? Both Voyagers are still well within the solar system*. They have managed only fraction of the way to the inner edge of the Oort Cloud. And both Voyagers are not travelling along the solar plane any more. Voyager 1 went up at a steep angle after encountering Saturn, Voyager 2 went down at a steep angle after encountering Neptune. * you may have heard that the Voyagers have left the solar system. No, the have exited the heliosphere (the area reached by the solar wind) and they have left the orbits of all the known planets (and Pluto) behind. But they are still far within the gravitational influence of the sun. Voyager 1 is about 162 AU from the Sun, the Oort Cloud is around 2,000-100,000 AU from the sun.

@ronakmist

6 ай бұрын

@sunriselg that's a good callout, but I did mean the galactic plane. I get that we're already at a slight angle, but hypothetically speaking, if we somehow got a top down view of the galaxy, does that aid us in any way? We'd need insane speeds though.

@sunriselg

6 ай бұрын

@@ronakmist if you can wait a few million years until your probe gets out there and sends the data back to you, sure it would be a lot easier to study the structure of the galaxy from the outside rather than from within.

@BigBoaby-sg1yo

6 ай бұрын

@@ronakmist😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ronakmist

6 ай бұрын

@sunriselg yeah sure. I know it's not something that's feasible in our lifetime. I guess I phrased my question poorly. Looking at it another way, assume you had some fictional warp drive and went out that way, is there anything to be gained scientifically?

I wonder, what causes those gyroscopes to fail and how that problem was addressed for space missions after Hubble. Will that still be a problem for more recent space-systems?

@abrahamroloff8671

6 ай бұрын

I don't know the exact cause of the failures, but it's a mechanical device and such things just break down over time. Lubricants leak and evaporate, or become slowly contaminated. Friction wears on the joints and axles. Metal/material fatigue could be the issue even for long lived systems...etc.

@martinhuhn7813

6 ай бұрын

@@abrahamroloff8671 Thanks for the answer. However, I am a little more curious about the specifics here. There are an awful lot of mechanical parts involved in a space telescopes like Hubble, but what was breaking down, were plenty of redundant gyroscopes from more than one production line. That is a specific problem with a specific kind of equipment and not one of all mechanical parts. And that specific problem was either solved since the last installations of the technology on Hubble or not and if not, thet same problems will occure on more spacecrafts - unless the whole technology was replaced by something completely different.

@zapfanzapfan

5 ай бұрын

I assume they replaced them with laser ring gyros but maybe not, space is a conservative business. One cause of failure on momentum wheels on a few other satellites was that static electricity would cause a spark between the race and balls on the ball bearings and over time the friction increased. The solution to that was ceramic balls.

@martinhuhn7813

5 ай бұрын

@@zapfanzapfan Thanks, that`s very helpful.

ML to Whale communication: A thought - perhaps another solution to the Fermi Paradoz is that there will be contact with other sentients, but not by us. It will be accomplished by some future AGI that we have initiated. Perhaps there will be no invitation, little purpose, for our species to join that conversation... As HAL said, "sorry Dave, I can't do that..."

Greetings from the BIG SKY.

I've been saying the same about whales and dolphins for years, so this is very heartening to me. Cetaceans are our biological cousins that evolved in the same conditions we did, so if we can't communicate with them, then I think we should be ready for failure talking to interstellar aliens. What I will add to what you said is that we needn't worry about the round-trip communication time. Once we make 2-way contact, each side should begin sending a constant stream of data. So we can respond to what we're getting as soon as we've decided what to say, at every moment. The worst that happens is that some of our questions get answered before the aliens could respond to them, and that's fine.

@EinsteinsHair

6 ай бұрын

When we establish interstellar contact the first thing I would like to know is if they have contacted other worlds, did those worlds have prior contacts, are there worlds no longer communicating. When we make our first contact, if they have been around a long time, then we may learn of several.

When you say Forest Moon of Endor, is Endor the Forest Moon, or ehe Planet orbited by a Forest Moon?

Fraser must be just a couple of years older than me. I feel like a young whippersnapper now. That's nice.

@frasercain

6 ай бұрын

Hah, grad 89! Born in 1971.

@JamesCairney

6 ай бұрын

@@frasercain I was '76 my brother was '71 although I did leave school the year after you did, 1990, feels like a life time ago now Edit, 1991 maybe, I forget, Im old

I know a good repair guy that worked on my cable TV. Fixed it in minues. Just send that guy to fix Voyager-1.

How big are the chunks of metal that are hurled at us from supernovae, kilonovae, etc? If a one kilogram chunk of Platinum hit the Earth square in the middle at three quarter light-speed, what would the result of that strike be?

I've seen those movies. V'ger in Star Trek the Motion Picture and Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home...

@nadyan9525

6 ай бұрын

yep, this whole update is basically Star Trek and I love it!