The agency’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the equivalent of an interstellar “shout” more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) to Voyager 2, instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself and turn its antenna back to Earth.
so basically… “g’day mate! give it a burl and take a good squizz over here!”. did I get that one right?
You missed the best part that it only takes 18 hours for the signal to travel 20 billion kilometers. That’s the longest two way communication in history and honestly that’s not going to change soon.
It’s amazing that we can even communicate with something so far away. Science is ridiculously awesome regardless of how much a certain wing of the political spectrum would have you think otherwise.
I’m irritated by the fact that not a word has been said about where exactly it is right now. I googled and found: it’s outside of the solar system and the sun’s influence.
It’s not that I’ve never heard of it, I just needed a confirmation that I was hoping to find in the article.
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so basically… “g’day mate! give it a burl and take a good squizz over here!”. did I get that one right?
You missed the best part that it only takes 18 hours for the signal to travel 20 billion kilometers. That’s the longest two way communication in history and honestly that’s not going to change soon.
looks at TCP 3-way handshake in absolute horror
It’s amazing that we can even communicate with something so far away. Science is ridiculously awesome regardless of how much a certain wing of the political spectrum would have you think otherwise.
I’m irritated by the fact that not a word has been said about where exactly it is right now. I googled and found: it’s outside of the solar system and the sun’s influence.
It’s not that I’ve never heard of it, I just needed a confirmation that I was hoping to find in the article.