My dad made circuit boards in the 70’s and made one for a camera on each of the Voyagers. My mom was a graphic artist and her logo appears on those circuit boards. They’re both gone now but I feel like a piece of them will live on for quite some time. It’s comforting in a way.
It's 24 light hours from Earth. It's been traveling at 30,000 MPH for 50 years. Imagine how far a light year is. It just boggles my mind how miniscule we are
Watch the movie 'Farthest' and you can fully appreciate what went into them. The crew that designed and built them are very emotionally attached to them and rightly so, because they were very groundbreaking when they went into space.
ENGINEERS DID NOT **BUILD IT**. Technicians and craftspersons did! They got NO credit though, as always. No fµking engineer ever built anything. Who constructed the hinges that let the JWST mirrors align perfectly? An engineer? Uh - NO!
@@bivideo7 In reality, the Engineers DESIGNED it, and the CRAFTSMEN & TECHNICIANS who build it pointed out flaws in the design, ushering them back the drawing board until something more suitable was attained
The clickbait picture seems to suggest that V1 travelled huge parts of the milky way but in fact its nowhere and it will take billions of years until it could get somewhere
This thing travels 17 kilometers every second. Now hitchhike it for a few BILLION (1,000,000,000) years - And you travel 1,7% of Milkyway. That is fucking unbelievable. Milkyway is infinity itself to humans.
It’s just so incredibly hard to get your mind around it properly! I agree. The various sizes of different things and their distances is so far from our concept of everyday life. We have our day to day lives here on earth, and then, one only has to leave Earth and venture out into the Cosmos for reality and distance to take on a new meaning-a whole new existence arises that’s so different.
Yes, you should see a picture of how far we can physically travel, if we could actually move at the speed of light for the length of a human lifetime (lets say 100 years). It's a tiny line that's barely noticeable in comparison to the size of the milky way. Milky way for life, that's for sure.
@@ahitler5592 There are quite a few good photos of earth, but sadly we would need a telescope roughly the size of earth to be able to see the flag on the moon
@@ahitler5592i agree. One can argue the cameras are not designed this way that way but then again. If you have Hubble telescope that can take photos of millions of light years away. Just build a fuckin telescope at least to satisfy the doubts of people. Why not show us an HD image of Moon taken from a space telescope or a rover or from earth that shows that flag and any future moon missions live!
I was 9 years old when the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, and I remember being excited about it as a kid. I will turn 56 years old in three weeks, and it is unbelievable that the spacecraft is still going and working!
Check back in a few million years or so. In about 100 trillion years, it will have circled the entire universe and return to earth in the direction opposite of which it left.
It is only a light day away! It needs to travel 364 x 50 years more to be just one light year away! And the closest stars are around 4 light years away from us... space is so huge, I cyn't even comprehend it 😮
I wonder if one day we'll reach a technological level where a mission will actually fly out, pick the Voyager probes up and bring them back to Earth to put them in a museum.
Nah, we will let them fly, or at the least replace the power supplies and upgrade the instruments so they can continue to be useful. Albeit they ain’t gonna see much now.
This said ...hits me like a ton of bricks..... Voyager 1 and 2 with all the human involvement to build and construct them with all the blood sweat and tears necessary to complete them they will surely outlive humanity tenfold. I'm sitting here dumbfounded after realizing that conception. Holy mother of the Universe. Carl Sagan will live forever😢
This was a very interesting video and you don't deserve all of the hateful comments! Some people are just mean for no real reason (criticism is fine, even important, but being mean isn't constructive criticism). Please keep going and don't give up!
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge that in 1977 they had tech good enough and powerful to 1. Make it receive signals miles in space. 2. Last probably as long as the earth before it degrades. 3. Build it so it still works today and tomorrow. 4.One of if not the best thing we've all done together. 5. We will not never reject it. 6. One of the farthest soon to be litter we've left in space to just float. 7. Be the last thing to really prove we exist. ...Jic 8. And best money we've spent and use of materials. 9. And could turn into v' jer/v'ger 10. If it comes back on the other side shock the very berries right loose from us. For more content: ... I ain't got nann! Go feed a cat.
Good video, I've been following the Voyagers for many years, I was 19 years old when they were launched, and I'm fascinated by their ability to have traveled this far, thanks for posting. Subbed 👍🇺🇸
No, it is not light that is fast. But what frightens is the vastness of the space. Distance is what truly frightening. In this emptiness and vastness, light is the only visible mass less entity that travels slowly. Light, it just travels.
The shear ingenuity of those engineers building a craft that is still travelling through the cosmos is amazing. They could never have imagined it still working after all these years.
Stuff like this is why I think the fermi paradox is dumb. There is no paradox. If life is out there, it would have to travel for an almost incomprehensible amount of time to ever get to us. We should never expect to hear from alien life.
Based on what we know now, maybe that’s true. But 4,000 years ago I’m pretty sure humans didn’t expect to be able to ever send a message halfway around the world in a matter of seconds either.
There was some article that came out a couple of years ago that was written I believe some astrophysicist or astronomer and it mentioned that any extraterrestrial life that visits us will likely be robots or AI probes built by some likely extinct alien species. Almost doubt that humans would be able to travel beyond the Solar System because of our nature. We're evolved to live and hunt on the East African Plain of 2 million years ago and that's what our brains and bodies are adapted for. We'd, as a species, be doing things that we're not evolved to do. Living inside the confines of a spaceship for most of your life, living in a space suit (earth-like planets are VERY rare) for whatever planet or moon we visit, everyone on board would have to get along, don't want any narcissists or sociopaths in the crew (everyone would have to be good-natured and care about each other), and the further from Earth or human base we get away from, the longer it would take for communication to travel and hopefully, the spaceship doesn't blow up or something goes wrong or someone onboard goes crazy...you're screwed. But then again, the explorers went through that in the 1500's in the oceans. See where this goes.
Whoa, this is mind blowing and so interesting how and what voyager will continue to see on it's journey. Space is so vast, mysterious, and wonderful all at the same time... Great video!
My understanding is Golden Record on the Voyagers will last over a Billion years. They both have record players to play the disc. I just hope they didn't forget to put the needle on the players.
The golden disk has a picture of how to place the needle (stored behind it) and how to move it for it to "play". -> It even has another picture of a "circle" [the very first image] as how it should be generated (if placed, played & the data processed correctly) by a projector set up in the right resolution format & speed rate [communicated using symbols, measurements of distance & time based on the basic info about the hydrogen atom].
If something ever listens to that record, and decide to visit, they are going to find a completely different place and probably hightail it back to where they came from.
No need to worry about that gold plated record. Absolutely no one is out there to try and figure out what it is!😊 We are alone in this universe! The almighty God created this wonderful huge expanded we call the universe, and the Bible doesn't say anything about other civilizations or people that are out there. The Bible talks about the earth, and mentions the stars briefly, and that's it.
Voyager 1 travels at 633 miles a minute, 10.5 miles a second. You'd never even know it if it were to pass you by on the street. You wouldn't ever see a blur.
I'd like to meet the sound/electronic/etc engineers who actually make it possible to hear the Voyageur 1 from 15 (50 in video) billion miles. Truly remarkable, a testament to what man has achieved on Earth.
Just imagine the havoc that would be wreaked on the evangelicals if we find out we are not alone, and the GOD of another civilization is 1000 times more powerful than any that have been dreamed up here. Hope I'm here to see it.
It doesn’t make any sense to say that it passes by or through constellations. Pass by specific stars sure, but constellations are not actually a structure in space.
Yeah you’re correct that they aren’t actual structures in space, but when we say an object in space “passes through” a constellation we are actually referring to how it appears to move across these patterns from our viewpoint. It’s just a convenient way to describe the movement relative to the patterns even though there is no actual passage through a physical structure if that makes sense.
@@Ventus3 Thank you so much for the video! Not trying to be persnickety about it, but I think that your definition is somewhat misleading. For instance, I could stand 6 feet away from you, with, say the constellation Orion behind me. And I could walk two steps sideways and "pass through" (move across) Orion from your viewpoint.
Why does every UA-cam video introduce the topic that we're all waiting to hear and see only to have the narrator or host say, "but before we get into that...." Can we cut that out already?
Voyager 1 & 2 are a true testament to the Ingenuity and imagination of mankind as a species. To build things that travel in space taking pictures and information sending them back at light speed is something you hear in a sci fi movie but it’s real, truly phenomenal
I find it profoundly moving that this little craft launched in 1977 is still on it's journey, and will continue to be for millennia and far, far beyond, may even outlive Earth.
The Great Red Spot is where internal heat from Jupiter’s core rises up and reaches the surface I think not from energy from planetary contractions but from some sort of nuclear fusion occurring on the surface of a mostly metallic solid core generating enough heat to also drive the Jovian weather belts.
Actually not. It means that every instance of life on this planet is totally unique, and should be respected as such. The implications are we'd better start doing a lot better at looking after our home and our fellow travellers - each and every one of us is precious and unique in the universe.@@Swervin309
How is it possible that we had that high level of sophisticated technology 47 years ago to send Voyager 1 over a billion miles away from the planet? And have it send pictures and information back to earth from that distance.
It's not sending pictures from that distance. The cameras were closed down years ago. As far as travelling, there's nothing to stop it or slow it down.
It's NOT possible. All this is just a PACK IF LIES! NONE of those things, or places, even exist! Think about it..just because we have God's gift of IMAGINATION doesn't mean we have to BELIEVE what others conjure up....
I remember when the Voyagers launched. It will be sad a time when we lose contact with them, either due to equipment failure (TWTAs rock!) or simply path loss of the signals.
[Technically speaking]: It is not like we will "lost all contact" by 2025, but rather it would not be able to perform "useful work" anymore (as a scientist instrument). . The sensors & 2 of the 3 main computers could be shutdown to save power (then only the transmitter will keep "beeping" towards Earth). This can possible extend its "lifetime" as a mere "beacon" for many decades. -> It still needs to "listen" from Earth from time to time, to correct any minor deviations on the directionality of its high gain antenna [otherwise it may not be able to "hear" any corrections anymore, hence drifting aimlessly].
By the time the Voyager's equipment begins to fail, we'll have the technology to speedily catch up to the craft and effect repairs. I once read a story about a space ship's long voyage to our nearest star. Generations were born, lived their entire life aboard the craft and died. After many generations, the ship finally arrives, only to find a welcoming party awaiting them. Technology had improved so much since the ship's initial launch that better and much faster ships had gone on ahead of them, and gave the finally arriving ship a hearty welcoming! BHE
Why send 1 voyger into space far away into 1 path exploring our galxy and solar system? How about sending multiple voyagers all around earth explore our galaxy and solar system in a complete sphere shape expansion covering all our surroundings?
Voyagers were accelerated using gravitational assistance of particular planet configuration in our solar system. We can't accelerate it like this anymore in a couple of hundreds years.
Yes no one can predict where it will be but with 100% certainty but we can predict how far it will travel if nothing happens to it with very simple math
Can you tell in what direction Voyager travels? Sounds like towards centre of Milky Way? I know it can't be seen, but I'm curious where on the night sky it can be?
There are several websites (e.g. The Sky Live) that tracks all sorts of stuff, planets, satellites and the ISS, google for them. You will have to put in your Lat/Long, time etc and it will give you an azimuth and angle of elevation. Some are easier than others, some more comprehensive, good luck!
Sun_to_Earth is just a few minutes. -> It was not designed to "go fast" (it just needed to reach Jupiter & then use it as a catapult to reach Saturn). [Even using the biggest rocket ever (back then, just this year surpassed by Superheavy+Starship)]; it was a much better option to "go slow" but saving a lot of fuel (adding both extra payload mass for more instruments & extending its lifetime in terms of attitude correction).
@@nikkobelvis145 Yeah and the nearest solar system to us is 4.5 light years away. Now to really blow your mind, the nearest galaxy to us is 2.5 million light years away, keep in mind that 1 light year is 18,250 years. So in order for Voyager to reach Andromeda, it will take roughly 46 billion years. Thats a staggering number, if we are correct in out assumption that earth is 4.6 billion years old, thats roughly 10x the time longer then earth has existed, and if we are to assume the universe is around 10-15 billion years old, its 3-4x times longer then the universe existed. So yeah, humans will likely never leave the solar system, let alone our galaxy.
If we do become a serious space faring civilization, I wonder if it would be possible for future human spacecraft to find and recover the voyager probes, and return them to Earth.
I love that two of Earth's deep space missions launched when I was in my teens will be cruising through space for possibly billions of years. That is mind blowing. Imagine being one of the people involved in those missions? To think their work could outlast humanity itself. Someday long into the future, an advanced race of beings might find one of these messengers. And the cosmos will know of us.
It actually was, it said barring any catastrophic collision with another object, its structural integrity would hold for a couple hundred million years at its current rate, or travel about 1.7% of the span of the milky way.
There's no Earthy way of knowing... Which direction it is going... There's no knowing where it's blowing... Or which way the sky is flowing... There's hardly a speck of Sun a showing... So the danger must be growing... Because the Voyager keeps on going... And it certainly isn't showing... Any signs that it is slowing...
Does it surprise anyone else that the ability to post a comment seems to act like a magnet, drawing unnecessary comments from just anyone? Like this one, for example?
With how much information can be stored today, and how much has happened in the past 50 years, why don't we launch a new Voyager, with all updated music, movies, art, history, and technology?
To visit our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, with current spacecraft speed 25km per sec, we will arrive at there in 50000 years. We need 50 ton of Plutonium 238 to power the spacecraft ... I THINK IMPOSSIBLE FOR US AS HUMAN TO VISIT THERE ...
Let's all hope Spock and Captain Kirk don't 'Intercept' Voyager at Inter-Galactic speeds, as the aftermath would result in a momentarily blinding flash of light....with these intrepid space travelers instantly becoming ''No Mas de Legit!"
Only if you are old enough to remember EVERYTHING else about its past [thing on the poor children, who are just now learning about it when it is on its last years of "life"].
It is most likely that Voyager 1 will travel endlessly thru space, never to be seen or heard from by anyone or anything for all of eternity. This is the most likely scenario.
After the heat death of the universe, due to the expansion of the universe, it could still continue to roam space without a single other atom or particle within a measurement equal to the radius of our observable universe.
A big mistake in the first Star Trek movie which none of us caught at the time was of the Voyager 1 probe supposedly traveling across the galaxy and being "enhanced" by a machine entity. In reality, by the 23rd century, Voyager 1 will not even make it to the nearest star from us, Proxima Centari.
The film does explain that. For a start it's science fiction, so the probe was Voyager 6, presumably a probe that would be launched a few decades from now. Also, it travelled so far so quickly, because "it fell into what they used to call a black hole...", to quote the film. The probe somehow survived its trip through the black hole, but i'd guess got severely damaged by the journey.
It is hard to conceptualize what the speed of Voyager is. Nothing on Earth travels that fast. A meteor maybe. Mach 50. What does that even look like? It would take only 2 hours to travel clear across Jupiter for example. But then at that speed, it would also take OVER 5 YEARS to travel out to Uranus from Jupiter at that speed of Mach 50. It's incomprehensible just how vast space is at current capability.
My dad made circuit boards in the 70’s and made one for a camera on each of the Voyagers. My mom was a graphic artist and her logo appears on those circuit boards. They’re both gone now but I feel like a piece of them will live on for quite some time. It’s comforting in a way.
Your father and mother live on for billions assuming in the next 300 years they scoop it up and throw it in a museum
That's fabulous.
It's 24 light hours from Earth. It's been traveling at 30,000 MPH for 50 years. Imagine how far a light year is. It just boggles my mind how miniscule we are
This is incredible!! Voyager 1 as been absolutely awesome. Just imagine how proud the engineers must feel who designed and built it!!
Watch the movie 'Farthest' and you can fully appreciate what went into them. The crew that designed and built them are very emotionally attached to them and rightly so, because they were very groundbreaking when they went into space.
most of them are already dead and gone.
ENGINEERS DID NOT **BUILD IT**. Technicians and craftspersons did! They got NO credit though, as always. No fµking engineer ever built anything. Who constructed the hinges that let the JWST mirrors align perfectly? An engineer? Uh - NO!
@@bivideo7 In reality, the Engineers DESIGNED it, and the CRAFTSMEN & TECHNICIANS who build it pointed out flaws in the design, ushering them back the drawing board until something more suitable was attained
The clickbait picture seems to suggest that V1 travelled huge parts of the milky way but in fact its nowhere and it will take billions of years until it could get somewhere
This thing travels 17 kilometers every second. Now hitchhike it for a few BILLION (1,000,000,000) years - And you travel 1,7% of Milkyway. That is fucking unbelievable. Milkyway is infinity itself to humans.
Mind boggling 🤔😳👽😬
It’s just so incredibly hard to get your mind around it properly! I agree. The various sizes of different things and their distances is so far from our concept of everyday life. We have our day to day lives here on earth, and then, one only has to leave Earth and venture out into the Cosmos for reality and distance to take on a new meaning-a whole new existence arises that’s so different.
It will still be traveling the milky way after the sun becomes a red giant and earth is destroyed.
Imagine how the crew of the USS Voyager felt when the realized they'd been flung all the way across the milky way🙄
Yes, you should see a picture of how far we can physically travel, if we could actually move at the speed of light for the length of a human lifetime (lets say 100 years). It's a tiny line that's barely noticeable in comparison to the size of the milky way. Milky way for life, that's for sure.
It’s mind numbing to think it can still send signals back to earth over 15 billion miles away
It's actually crazy...the WHOPPERS these Space-Religion SYCHOPHANTS can conjure up out of their DISEASED, UNBELIEVING minds.
It's actually CRAZY...Boy, the WHOPPERS these Space-Religion SYCHOPHANTS can conjure up from there fantasy-loving minds!
And 15 billion miles is still NOTHING. 40,000 yrs. until the next Star it comes across at 38,000 MPH.
@@ge2623 it’s not possible to comprehend those numbers, lol
My TV can't receive signal from 10 miles away when it's raining
I was 17 when they were launched, I never would've thought they'll outlive me, still sending info till this day and continuing. Amazing machines.
meanwhile, no clear photo of earth, and can't find the flag on the moon
@@ahitler5592 There are quite a few good photos of earth, but sadly we would need a telescope roughly the size of earth to be able to see the flag on the moon
@@ahitler5592Plenty on clear photos of earth. What are you on about!!!
@@ahitler5592i agree. One can argue the cameras are not designed this way that way but then again. If you have Hubble telescope that can take photos of millions of light years away. Just build a fuckin telescope at least to satisfy the doubts of people. Why not show us an HD image of Moon taken from a space telescope or a rover or from earth that shows that flag and any future moon missions live!
Haaaa
I was 9 years old when the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, and I remember being excited about it as a kid. I will turn 56 years old in three weeks, and it is unbelievable that the spacecraft is still going and working!
I was 15, and I'm STILL "going and working" but nobody thinks THAT is "unbelievable!" 🤣
Check back in a few million years or so. In about 100 trillion years, it will have circled the entire universe and return to earth in the direction opposite of which it left.
It isn't. Space is a psyop
@@leftistnpc5417what.
I was 9 years old too .
Soon it will be 50 years in space but another 40k years before it reaches another star! Mind boggling!
Over 50 years away and only 1 day away at light speed. Incredible.
It is only a light day away! It needs to travel 364 x 50 years more to be just one light year away! And the closest stars are around 4 light years away from us... space is so huge, I cyn't even comprehend it 😮
you actually are right. Because it would take us 70000 years to reach our closest star if we would have sent voyager 1 directly towards it.
*can't
Our universe are so biggg, anything beyond our milky way Galaxy are meaningless to me.
noone was talking about anything beyond out galaxy. @@rebelusa6585
A "light day", indeed!
And we flippantly toss around billions of light years.
Shows how very small we are in the universe
The record player just plays “All I want for Christmas is you” by Maria Carey over and over. It keeps the aliens away
When you are on your last breath, reflect on how damn stupid you were for your entire life.
Fortunately, Voyager 1 was launched 17 years before that song was released
Considering that she haven't sang that song yet, I'd say your VERY WRONG.
That's the second best Xmas song and I just listened to it just now
Man, Voyager heard a clip of Kamala cackling and thought it was a alien and flew off the other way !
I wonder if one day we'll reach a technological level where a mission will actually fly out, pick the Voyager probes up and bring them back to Earth to put them in a museum.
Doubt it by the time we had that kind of technology if ever, they would be way to far away to ever bee seen by the human eye again.
Nah, we will let them fly, or at the least replace the power supplies and upgrade the instruments so they can continue to be useful. Albeit they ain’t gonna see much now.
@@nuntana2 i like that idea. Retrofit the V1 and V2 with new tech and honor them by essentially reviving them so they can continue their usefulness.
Hope it doesn't come back as "V'ger" looking for its creator..
Okay. Did you eat your moron cereal today? There are no probes out there, the only thing NASA took to space was your imagination.
With minimal computing power they made miracles
Thank God the Interstellar Record was made before modern social media and reality TV.
God? You dare among all these scientific minds. Heresy .
Haha... you are 110% correct... Thank goodness for that.
Yeh, explaining all the modern genders would be a bit of a problem
@@Helm-w1qWhat 💀
@@dpfghelaOnly 2 as it always been
Its mad to think that after billions of years travelling through Space it will still be in the milky way galaxy .
mind numbing...
Man kind on earth will be gone then. Beyond comprehension.
Not really Milky Way because Milky Way will collide with Andromeda.
@@bestopinion9257In the back seat of a Chevy junior year in high school.
@@bestopinion9257 Yup, resulting in the Milky-Meda galaxy.
Question.....Do you think by that time, D Trump will have finally grown up?
Dont forget we also have a voyager 2 doing a similar thing ! 📡
No one remembers 2nd place
@@smoothlyrough512 Carl Sagan does.....WHERever he is!
Except you @@smoothlyrough512
This said ...hits me like a ton of bricks..... Voyager 1 and 2 with all the human involvement to build and construct them with all the blood sweat and tears necessary to complete them they will surely outlive humanity tenfold. I'm sitting here dumbfounded after realizing that conception. Holy mother of the Universe. Carl Sagan will live forever😢
Yes
Voyager will outlive humanity by (many) millions of years..
This was a very interesting video and you don't deserve all of the hateful comments! Some people are just mean for no real reason (criticism is fine, even important, but being mean isn't constructive criticism). Please keep going and don't give up!
Its always been part of the job description!
@@Ventus3 i wouldn't worry about the idiots.
Most of them haven't been to school, i think, judging by their comments
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge that in 1977 they had tech good enough and powerful to 1. Make it receive signals miles in space.
2. Last probably as long as the earth before it degrades.
3. Build it so it still works today and tomorrow.
4.One of if not the best thing we've all done together.
5. We will not never reject it.
6. One of the farthest soon to be litter we've left in space to just float.
7. Be the last thing to really prove we exist.
...Jic
8. And best money we've spent and use of materials.
9. And could turn into v' jer/v'ger
10. If it comes back on the other side shock the very berries right loose from us.
For more content: ... I ain't got nann! Go feed a cat.
Are you a software engineer, by any chance?
Good video, I've been following the Voyagers for many years, I was 19 years old when they were launched, and I'm fascinated by their ability to have traveled this far, thanks for posting. Subbed 👍🇺🇸
Voyager 1 traveled the distance, that light travels in only 1 day, within almost 50 years; really puts into perspective how fast the light really is.
No, it is not light that is fast. But what frightens is the vastness of the space. Distance is what truly frightening. In this emptiness and vastness, light is the only visible mass less entity that travels slowly. Light, it just travels.
Voyager still didn’t not travel 1 light day
Pluto is 4.6 light hours away from the Sun, shows you how slow light really is as well.
I've been following news on the Voyagers since they were launched. Still absolutely fascinating!
The shear ingenuity of those engineers building a craft that is still travelling through the cosmos is amazing. They could never have imagined it still working after all these years.
Those engineers are gone, they don't know anything now
Stuff like this is why I think the fermi paradox is dumb. There is no paradox. If life is out there, it would have to travel for an almost incomprehensible amount of time to ever get to us. We should never expect to hear from alien life.
Based on what we know now, maybe that’s true. But 4,000 years ago I’m pretty sure humans didn’t expect to be able to ever send a message halfway around the world in a matter of seconds either.
Its not even a question IF there is life out there. But WHERE, WHAT AND HOW
@@ludapecurka102there’s most certainly microbial life out there somewhere, but I think the OP and myself had intelligent life in mind.
There was some article that came out a couple of years ago that was written I believe some astrophysicist or astronomer and it mentioned that any extraterrestrial life that visits us will likely be robots or AI probes built by some likely extinct alien species. Almost doubt that humans would be able to travel beyond the Solar System because of our nature. We're evolved to live and hunt on the East African Plain of 2 million years ago and that's what our brains and bodies are adapted for. We'd, as a species, be doing things that we're not evolved to do. Living inside the confines of a spaceship for most of your life, living in a space suit (earth-like planets are VERY rare) for whatever planet or moon we visit, everyone on board would have to get along, don't want any narcissists or sociopaths in the crew (everyone would have to be good-natured and care about each other), and the further from Earth or human base we get away from, the longer it would take for communication to travel and hopefully, the spaceship doesn't blow up or something goes wrong or someone onboard goes crazy...you're screwed. But then again, the explorers went through that in the 1500's in the oceans. See where this goes.
@@navyvet05interesting thought. Or like the ISS travelling around the planet every 90 minutes. Unimaginable even 300 yrs ago.
Whoa, this is mind blowing and so interesting how and what voyager will continue to see on it's journey. Space is so vast, mysterious, and wonderful all at the same time... Great video!
Think of the tech that can send a signal to Earth a Billion miles away. Made in the 1970s. It makes our cellphones look like a joke.
My understanding is Golden Record on the Voyagers will last over a Billion years. They both have record players to play the disc. I just hope they didn't forget to put the needle on the players.
Better not scratch them either! 👽
The golden disk has a picture of how to place the needle (stored behind it) and how to move it for it to "play".
-> It even has another picture of a "circle" [the very first image] as how it should be generated (if placed, played & the data processed correctly) by a projector set up in the right resolution format & speed rate [communicated using symbols, measurements of distance & time based on the basic info about the hydrogen atom].
I do. I really dont think we want intelligent aliens figuring out where we are, as slim a chance as it is
40.000 years to reach Alpha, the closest star. It is amazing yet at the same time depressing.
They need to build a much faster engine. Even one that goes 10% at the speed of light.
@@PunchBuggyDreams10% speed of light is so fast
@@PunchBuggyDreams So then it will 'only' be 40 yrs.
@@a-dutch-z7351 Space explorers would need to live on a space ark of sorts. Kind of like in The Star Lost. A 1970's sci-fi series.
@@PunchBuggyDreams We need better tech.
Wow. I remember that being launched. Thank you. I always wondered. Good stuff, man!!
If something ever listens to that record, and decide to visit, they are going to find a completely different place and probably hightail it back to where they came from.
No need to worry about that gold plated record. Absolutely no one is out there to try and figure out what it is!😊 We are alone in this universe! The almighty God created this wonderful huge expanded we call the universe, and the Bible doesn't say anything about other civilizations or people that are out there. The Bible talks about the earth, and mentions the stars briefly, and that's it.
Bible is bulls#%!
If someone does find it how would they know what it is?
@@thomastaylor6699god is fake.
@@thomastaylor6699The bible is written by humans. We are not alone in the universe, just too far away.
A golden record. Did anybody think to send a turntable and speakers with it? DOH!
I think it was a CD . Still a lame idea .
Voyager 2 has the turntable and speakers.
Both voyager 1 and 2 have record players built in with a diamond needle and instructions on how to play them
I agree, the whole "golden record" idea seems absurd.
I think v1 actually found the mysterious 10th planet. That’s why Pluto was so rudely demoted…
Billions of years from now when the Earth no longer exists, the Voyager and Pioneer probes will be the only evidence we were ever here.
0:33: THAT'S NOT VOYAGER!!!! THAT'S AN APOLLO ROCKET!!!!!!!!!!!!! A SATURN 5 FOR A MOON SHOT!!!!!!!!
Proof that cameraman never dies.
Voyager 1 travels at 633 miles a minute, 10.5 miles a second. You'd never even know it if it were to pass you by on the street. You wouldn't ever see a blur.
How does it travel that fast tho I don’t understand because I didn’t travel that fast when it was sent from earth. Does the speed somehow compound?
@@Younghustla1 Look up "slingshot effect" and you'll maybe understand how it speeded up.
Thank you Voyager 1, without you that beautiful picture of our home won’t be taken, you are not alone, you have us! We all love you Voyager 1 ❤ 🫡
Voyager 2 must be salty asf
would a future encounter with intellagent life mean they could calculate VOYEGER 1'S trajectory back to earth
I'd like to meet the sound/electronic/etc engineers who actually make it possible to hear the Voyageur 1 from 15 (50 in video) billion miles. Truly remarkable, a testament to what man has achieved on Earth.
We are so alone. There's life out there, but it is so far away it might as well not exist.
Just imagine the havoc that would be wreaked on the evangelicals if we find out we are not alone, and the GOD of another civilization is 1000 times more powerful than any that have been dreamed up here. Hope I'm here to see it.
In Andromeda there's definitely life
At this rate, it's gonna take longer for Voyager 1 to reach the next star than it does for me to decide what to watch on Netflix
it will be out there long long after we are gone.
I often wonder if one day Voyager 1 and 2 might be the only evidence that mankind ever existed.
It doesn’t make any sense to say that it passes by or through constellations. Pass by specific stars sure, but constellations are not actually a structure in space.
Yeah you’re correct that they aren’t actual structures in space, but when we say an object in space “passes through” a constellation we are actually referring to how it appears to move across these patterns from our viewpoint. It’s just a convenient way to describe the movement relative to the patterns even though there is no actual passage through a physical structure if that makes sense.
@@Ventus3 Thank you so much for the video! Not trying to be persnickety about it, but I think that your definition is somewhat misleading.
For instance, I could stand 6 feet away from you, with, say the constellation Orion behind me. And I could walk two steps sideways and "pass through" (move across) Orion from your viewpoint.
It is possible to listen to the voyager record on youtube. I already have.
Why does every UA-cam video introduce the topic that we're all waiting to hear and see only to have the narrator or host say, "but before we get into that...."
Can we cut that out already?
Voyager 1 & 2 are a true testament to the Ingenuity and imagination of mankind as a species. To build things that travel in space taking pictures and information sending them back at light speed is something you hear in a sci fi movie but it’s real, truly phenomenal
The should have included a Ronco Mr. Microphone and a game of Twister.
LOL Buckaroo would also be a good addition - though it might start an interstellar war (being the pointless game that it is!)
Game of monopoly
Nothing like a little existential crisis of how big and endless space is before bed
Very Interesting! Thanks for Posting!
I find it profoundly moving that this little craft launched in 1977 is still on it's journey, and will continue to be for millennia and far, far beyond, may even outlive Earth.
The real hero here is the cameraman that is filming voyager 1
Hahaha....satisfied? We are sick of this lame comment again and again
@@feechlamanna4575 Of course, YOU DO have something better to replace it with?
The Great Red Spot is where internal heat from Jupiter’s core rises up and reaches the surface I think not from energy from planetary contractions but from some sort of nuclear fusion occurring on the surface of a mostly metallic solid core generating enough heat to also drive the Jovian weather belts.
Am I getting this right that the Voyager 1 will continue its trip indefinitely, only by inertia?
Newton's first law - yes. It'll continue indefinitely provided it doesn't go close to any massive object or collide with something.
yes, a body in motion, stays in motion unless acted upon by an external force.
And there is the possibility that after enough time, it will be taken by us back to Earth.
How disappointing it would be if it travelled 100 billion miles just to crash into a meteor or some other celestial body.
Equally disappointing would be if it were never found by another civilization.
@@Swervin309Or, to be found by a civilization that is made up of only dinosaurs.
@@cappyjones Chicago? LOL
Or will land on gold eating creatures civilisation and plate will be eaten like cookie
Actually not. It means that every instance of life on this planet is totally unique, and should be respected as such. The implications are we'd better start doing a lot better at looking after our home and our fellow travellers - each and every one of us is precious and unique in the universe.@@Swervin309
nice and like ur video . been following voyagers and thanks for this❤❤❤
How is it possible that we had that high level of sophisticated technology 47 years ago to send Voyager 1 over a billion miles away from the planet? And have it send pictures and information back to earth from that distance.
And with less computing power than is in a car's key fob.
It's not sending pictures from that distance. The cameras were closed down years ago. As far as travelling, there's nothing to stop it or slow it down.
It's NOT possible. All this is just a PACK IF LIES! NONE of those things, or places, even exist! Think about it..just because we have God's gift of IMAGINATION doesn't mean we have to BELIEVE what others conjure up....
@@davidhollingsworth864 Others conjured up God. Think about it!
@@davidhollingsworth864You're bearing false witness. You're not a Christian.
Those visuals in the video are extremely good can you tell me how can I make those visuals? I'm interested in making space content on UA-cam as well.
I remember when the Voyagers launched.
It will be sad a time when we lose contact with them, either due to equipment failure (TWTAs rock!) or simply path loss of the signals.
[Technically speaking]: It is not like we will "lost all contact" by 2025, but rather it would not be able to perform "useful work" anymore (as a scientist instrument).
. The sensors & 2 of the 3 main computers could be shutdown to save power (then only the transmitter will keep "beeping" towards Earth). This can possible extend its "lifetime" as a mere "beacon" for many decades.
-> It still needs to "listen" from Earth from time to time, to correct any minor deviations on the directionality of its high gain antenna [otherwise it may not be able to "hear" any corrections anymore, hence drifting aimlessly].
By the time the Voyager's equipment begins to fail, we'll have the technology to speedily catch up to the craft and effect repairs.
I once read a story about a space ship's long voyage to our nearest star. Generations were born, lived their entire life aboard the craft and died. After many generations, the ship finally arrives, only to find a welcoming party awaiting them. Technology had improved so much since the ship's initial launch that better and much faster ships had gone on ahead of them, and gave the finally arriving ship a hearty welcoming! BHE
The more likely event is that we'll eventually build ships fast enough to catch the voyagers.
Why send 1 voyger into space far away into 1 path exploring our galxy and solar system? How about sending multiple voyagers all around earth explore our galaxy and solar system in a complete sphere shape expansion covering all our surroundings?
There are 2 of them and probably money. Would have been cool though.
It takes a lot of tike and money to built these tho it does sound cool it would probably take a while to build multiple of tgem
Voyagers were accelerated using gravitational assistance of particular planet configuration in our solar system. We can't accelerate it like this anymore in a couple of hundreds years.
Crazy to think for how long it’s been traveling that isn’t only 24 light hours away
They don't know how far it can travel - thanks for an obviously ChatGBT inspired monologue...
Yes no one can predict where it will be but with 100% certainty but we can predict how far it will travel if nothing happens to it with very simple math
I think space is expanding faster than the Voyager is making progress through the cosmos.
A new episode about the vast universe ❤
Wait for the next video 😁
What direction is it/them traveling? Towards the center or outside our galaxy?
away from the center
AI voices are cringe
And lazy af
I agree. And not just because I'm a real-life voiceover artist ;)
This one is good
@jameskvo
OK so explain what is “Cringe” about this Voice over.
Be Specific.
SO ! .
4:33 That’s Budapest:)
Wouldn’t it be strange if it suddenly appeared coming into our galaxy the other way
Sorta like a man made comet but it would have to grow a tail first.
It's possible 🤗
Basically Star Trek The Motion Picture
@@dr-doctor-1992
On its way back to sterilise the earth
You mean voyager coming back to our solar system?
Can you tell in what direction Voyager travels? Sounds like towards centre of Milky Way? I know it can't be seen, but I'm curious where on the night sky it can be?
There are several websites (e.g. The Sky Live) that tracks all sorts of stuff, planets, satellites and the ISS, google for them. You will have to put in your Lat/Long, time etc and it will give you an azimuth and angle of elevation. Some are easier than others, some more comprehensive, good luck!
It took 50 years to travel 24 light hours? Lol
1 Light day
That's a lot distance for a short period of time. That huge thing is fast af!
18,250 years for a light year
Sun_to_Earth is just a few minutes.
-> It was not designed to "go fast" (it just needed to reach Jupiter & then use it as a catapult to reach Saturn).
[Even using the biggest rocket ever (back then, just this year surpassed by Superheavy+Starship)]; it was a much better option to "go slow" but saving a lot of fuel (adding both extra payload mass for more instruments & extending its lifetime in terms of attitude correction).
@@nikkobelvis145 Yeah and the nearest solar system to us is 4.5 light years away. Now to really blow your mind, the nearest galaxy to us is 2.5 million light years away, keep in mind that 1 light year is 18,250 years. So in order for Voyager to reach Andromeda, it will take roughly 46 billion years.
Thats a staggering number, if we are correct in out assumption that earth is 4.6 billion years old, thats roughly 10x the time longer then earth has existed, and if we are to assume the universe is around 10-15 billion years old, its 3-4x times longer then the universe existed. So yeah, humans will likely never leave the solar system, let alone our galaxy.
and overall great video. really informativ in a short period of time :)
As for the whole pale blue dot thing...it's even a tiny dot in the sky from Venus or Mars, our next door planets!
It’s impressive that Voyager 1 has still been chugging along for the better part of five decades now.
Great video, superbly explained.
It’s sucks we are here for a certain amount of time we’re going to miss out on so much in the future
If we do become a serious space faring civilization, I wonder if it would be possible for future human spacecraft to find and recover the voyager probes, and return them to Earth.
easily done for sure once we invent fast travel. After all we know exactly where it is/should be
The only thing we need to find out before doing so is a reason to do it.
I love that two of Earth's deep space missions launched when I was in my teens will be cruising through space for possibly billions of years. That is mind blowing. Imagine being one of the people involved in those missions? To think their work could outlast humanity itself. Someday long into the future, an advanced race of beings might find one of these messengers. And the cosmos will know of us.
The question wasn't answered nor do we know where it's going.
Ai video.
It actually was, it said barring any catastrophic collision with another object, its structural integrity would hold for a couple hundred million years at its current rate, or travel about 1.7% of the span of the milky way.
Listen from about 4:42 to about 6:30 for your answer.
There's no Earthy way of knowing...
Which direction it is going...
There's no knowing where it's blowing...
Or which way the sky is flowing...
There's hardly a speck of Sun a showing...
So the danger must be growing...
Because the Voyager keeps on going...
And it certainly isn't showing...
Any signs that it is slowing...
Does it surprise anyone else that the ability to post a comment seems to act like a magnet, drawing unnecessary comments from just anyone? Like this one, for example?
We will catch up with it, and send it "home" to place it in a museum, in about 50-100 years...
LMAO
The universe is so vast. It doesn't make sense to go in the same path and bring back that voyager when there is so much more to explore
50-100 years? Lmao more like 500-1000
1.7% of the milky way galaxy, really? So basically it will have gone no where in millions of years
The Milky Way is incredibly massive!
The Milky Way Galaxy is about a 100,000 light years across. If you include the halo as well, then it is much larger.
Yep! That about sums it up.
My hometown is La Canada where JPL is located. Many of my friends parents worked on Voyager 1. So cool to see it still alive and well!
Give us Voyager 3 leaks 😡
With how much information can be stored today, and how much has happened in the past 50 years, why don't we launch a new Voyager, with all updated music, movies, art, history, and technology?
That's fine just leave out all the lgbtq, woke and feminist bs though. Oh wait that's gonna cut alot of that out huh....lol.
turn the background racket off please!
To visit our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, with current spacecraft speed 25km per sec, we will arrive at there in 50000 years. We need 50 ton of Plutonium 238 to power the spacecraft ...
I THINK IMPOSSIBLE FOR US AS HUMAN TO VISIT THERE ...
U didn't mention that Spock n Kirk will ultimately intercept 'V_ger' and down load it's data banks...😂😂😂
Exactly what I was thinking 😊
Let's all hope Spock and Captain Kirk don't 'Intercept' Voyager at Inter-Galactic speeds, as the aftermath would result in a momentarily blinding flash of light....with these intrepid space travelers instantly becoming
''No Mas de Legit!"
@@blackholeentry3489No
@@allan9603 NO? WHAT do you mean, NO?
@@blackholeentry3489 Just no, and leave it at that.
FYI the OORT cloud from our solar system extends almost to centauri
I fucking love space
New subscriber! Keep going!
“But before answering that, let’s take a step back” makes my blood boil.
Only if you are old enough to remember EVERYTHING else about its past [thing on the poor children, who are just now learning about it when it is on its last years of "life"].
It is most likely that Voyager 1 will travel endlessly thru space, never to be seen or heard from by anyone or anything for all of eternity. This is the most likely scenario.
After the heat death of the universe, due to the expansion of the universe, it could still continue to roam space without a single other atom or particle within a measurement equal to the radius of our observable universe.
Please tell your voice generator to talk a bit slower. My blood pressure got higher just by listening…
@Cateyes_ must...not...have...one....second....of....silence
Whatever fantasy gets you through the night.
A big mistake in the first Star Trek movie which none of us caught at the time was of the Voyager 1 probe supposedly traveling across the galaxy and being "enhanced" by a machine entity. In reality, by the 23rd century, Voyager 1 will not even make it to the nearest star from us, Proxima Centari.
The film does explain that.
For a start it's science fiction, so the probe was Voyager 6, presumably a probe that would be launched a few decades from now.
Also, it travelled so far so quickly, because "it fell into what they used to call a black hole...", to quote the film.
The probe somehow survived its trip through the black hole, but i'd guess got severely damaged by the journey.
@@reessoft9416 Is there a black hole close to earth, closer than the nearest star? I think not. That does not work either.
Great presentation!
It's an excellent thing to give us a written translation together with thé oral comentary.I understand 99% of thé explanations!
It is hard to conceptualize what the speed of Voyager is. Nothing on Earth travels that fast. A meteor maybe. Mach 50. What does that even look like? It would take only 2 hours to travel clear across Jupiter for example. But then at that speed, it would also take OVER 5 YEARS to travel out to Uranus from Jupiter at that speed of Mach 50. It's incomprehensible just how vast space is at current capability.
I love the music in the background. Anyone know what it is?