Post AzCsaoZ3Bh2ETPimTg by NatureMC@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #AzCXeMBoWoNcajhUVE by stux@mstdn.social
2025-10-14T13:34:24Z
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light daySpace is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
(DIR) Post #AzCXpAO2kcGTAgZiaG by PetterOfCats@mastodon.world
2025-10-14T13:36:18Z
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@stux yeah. It’s like that Douglas Adams quote: “ Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
(DIR) Post #AzCY47iIyKHNDyBUMi by kimlockhartga@beige.party
2025-10-14T13:39:00Z
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@stux It's amazing how much distance there is between objects in space. I have to think of it in graduated steps: between us and the other planets, between our solar system and other stars, between our solar system and other galaxies. It's amazing how long it takes for our galaxy to make a single rotation.
(DIR) Post #AzCY5bmkeSV6mOyL4K by faraiwe@mstdn.social
2025-10-14T13:39:21Z
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@stux Also: Voyager WOOOSH.
(DIR) Post #AzCYMwsbTavb7qygwC by LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social
2025-10-14T13:42:26Z
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@stux It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny. We're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney.https://youtu.be/xTIR1B7fRLk
(DIR) Post #AzCfIdiTTzRSDE8HLc by elasticsoul@mastodon.social
2025-10-14T15:00:02Z
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@stux Truly remarkable. Impossible to imagine. Looking back at all the sci-fi I’ve read, every one had to come up with some ‘magic’ to get around how immense space is. "Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day"
(DIR) Post #AzCfImJzUOCkttkLw0 by pasmac@atmasto.com
2025-10-14T14:59:59Z
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@stux long live to voyagers :)Incredible times when we did really good stuff without AI crap, etc.since 70's that we stop in time and become bubblefied ...
(DIR) Post #AzCg27zfl6nF9BrpfU by puzzled@coales.co
2025-10-14T15:08:17Z
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@stux For more updates on where Voyager 1 is, see @Voyager1.(I don't see the recent toots from that account's profile; it is part of masto-fu I don't understand)
(DIR) Post #AzCgwr4ZLLRxAqCu5A by rhyseverquill@social.coop
2025-10-14T15:18:32Z
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@stux if my quick maths is correct, it will take voyager 77,380 Earth years to reach proxima centuri, our closest neighbouring star 🤯
(DIR) Post #AzCm0PkDOHfdLVCewa by jackcole@mstdn.social
2025-10-14T16:15:15Z
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@stux How empty is space?Very roughly: if the Sun were the size of a grain of table salt, the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, would be about four kilometers. Think about that. Can you imagine putting a single grain of salt down, walking four kilometers, looking back and being able to see it? But it gives off tremendous amounts of light, so we can.They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars - on stars where no human race is.- Robert Frost
(DIR) Post #AzCrTNbKwBuMrqgJrE by nohaironheed@mastodon.scot
2025-10-14T17:16:30Z
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@stux And in 346 years Voyager will be stranded in the Delta Quadrant, facing a 75 year journey back to Federation space.
(DIR) Post #AzCra1bb7Ev6fxyLSq by admin_backup@mastodon.world
2025-10-14T17:17:42Z
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@stux luckily we have got big egos to make up for that.
(DIR) Post #AzCsaoZ3Bh2ETPimTg by NatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-10-14T17:29:01Z
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@stux And you can even follow the Voyager probes on Mastodon: @NSFVoyager2 #astronomy #Voyager #voyager1 #voyager2
(DIR) Post #AzCul4X4sBQqnmok40 by satire@mastodon.social
2025-10-14T17:53:19Z
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@stux I thought size didn’t matter — 1.611 x 10^-17 ly is pretty average. #Space #Voyager #Voyer
(DIR) Post #AzD2sKXcYBY6732kpk by grishka@mastodon.social
2025-10-14T19:24:13Z
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@stux I really hope the speed of light isn't a fundamentally insurmountable limit. Because if it is, this would mean the universe is a rather boring place.
(DIR) Post #AzD84eq1PePYJ9LczQ by ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social
2025-10-14T20:22:29Z
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@stux I follow @NSFVoyager2 . When I see a message like:"I am currently ~19h 32m 21s of light travel time from Earth (2025:284:000000:2L)"It gives me some much needed perspective. The account also posts about Voyager 1:https://techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/115355418708526333#Space
(DIR) Post #AzD9xzOamW9DwnSwl6 by botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-14T20:43:41Z
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@stux space is big and we are so slow
(DIR) Post #AzDClWj9qMPLQCpn2O by Helgi@101010.pl
2025-10-14T21:15:03Z
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@stux in the 1980s the most wise idea was, they'd travel in sleeper ships to encounter some Xenomorph. Because nobody managed to invent the warp. Except maybe Albert Einstein, and he meant you can't warp anything unless you are as massive as a star itself.
(DIR) Post #AzDMzaqALaW3m2STpo by ZenHeathen@beige.party
2025-10-14T23:09:39Z
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@stux Lucky.
(DIR) Post #AzEImXiuQ5C7gQXtCa by drajt@fosstodon.org
2025-10-15T09:57:12Z
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@stux reading A Deepness in the Sky, a Vernor Vinge novel. In it humans have started to colonise the galaxy but at a fraction of the speed of light, so it's no space opera, and it takes centuries to get anywhere...Space is big...
(DIR) Post #AzESjKaHoTQjbdcTRY by rmblaber1956@mastodon.social
2025-10-15T11:48:40Z
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@stux That = 25,902,068,371.2 km, which is a VERY long way!
(DIR) Post #AzEW6bAMczDFYaHTv6 by stux@mstdn.social
2025-10-15T12:26:32Z
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@Sfwmson @kimlockhartga Awesome huh!Nothing is "still" 😀 It was such a revelation for me that the speed of light in a vacuum is one of the few constants we have :amaze:
(DIR) Post #AzEXHAWw6FUm5QRXDk by kimlockhartga@beige.party
2025-10-15T12:39:33Z
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@stux @Sfwmson I still don't understand why we can never go faster than the speed of light, but I think it involves the laws of physics. Like, even if we sent robots, it can't happen.
(DIR) Post #AzEiTF8jsyazM15LU0 by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
2025-10-15T14:45:00Z
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@stux Voyagers 1 & 2 weren't optimized for maximum velocity, they followed the trajectories needed for their flybys. And that's not even considering what we could in principle build today (nuclear-electric). So I don't think "At Voyager's speed it would take xxx..." is really the best yardstick.