[HN Gopher] Voyager as Technosignature
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       Voyager as Technosignature
        
       Author : andyjohnson0
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-05-03 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ok_dad wrote:
       | I'm sad that we overlooked putting a description of our tools
       | onto our tools! Tools are one of the things we look for in
       | archealogical surveys, and sometimes it's hard to tell what they
       | were for. It would be nice, if we ever found a space probe, to be
       | able to reference some data that told us what the probe was for
       | and not just where it came from.
        
         | JumpCrisscross wrote:
         | > _we overlooked putting a description of our tools onto our
         | tools_
         | 
         | Voyager _is_ a tool. Its function should be discernible from
         | its form.
        
       | phkahler wrote:
       | >> Voyager 1 is now 24 billion kilometers from home.
       | 
       | I wish they would give these distances in light-minutes or even
       | light-hours for Voyager. IIRC it's not quite a light-day.
        
         | dllthomas wrote:
         | 22 hours 14 minutes 15.38 seconds         1334 minutes
         | 22.24 hours         0.9266 days
         | 
         | approaching 1337 light-minutes :D
        
         | KineticLensman wrote:
         | Google says 22.2 light hours, so yes, just short of a light day
        
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