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Post by Niemmy on May 12, 2010 21:30:36 GMT -5
IT left Earth 33 years ago, now it's claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can't decode.
NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.
But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!
The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?
Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth"
Engineers are working to solve the data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said today.
The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.
Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most distant human-made objects.
Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space.
Voyager 2 will follow after that.
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Post by cosmiccastaway on May 17, 2010 22:04:28 GMT -5
I wonder what kind of sounds its sending back and if they will ever tell?
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Post by N on May 18, 2010 6:35:22 GMT -5
What sounds, I'm not really sure. But I don't think they will be telling us anytime soon.
But seeing that all governments are corrupt anyway, I'm not sure I would believe anything they have to say,. Take 'Project Blue Book' a work of fiction from cover to cover.
So unless giant alien ships park over our cities I don't really hold out for any truth anytime soon.
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