NASA says it's official

[Nonsensei]

Even a fictional story that suggests that God exists is BLASPHEMY.

 

Did you take your meds this morning?

[josephpalazzo]

Even a fictional story that suggests that God exists is BLASPHEMY.

 

Did you take your meds this morning?

Ha, your tacit denial is a veiled admission that you are a BELIEVER. Fortunately for you, the members of this forum won't give a damn should you write that story (which BTW was already written be a certain DICK).  :roll:

[stromboli]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek: ... on_Picture

Can you say V'Ger?  :roll:

[Nonsensei]

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

I think that Philip K Dick beat you to it.

Beat me to WHAT? Theres a billion stories that could be written from that premise. Are you telling me Philip K. Dick already wrote all of them?

[Colanth]

I wonder what the aliens will do with that golden record?

a) play frisbee with it
b) eat it
c) melt it and make jewelry
d) actually play it on a record player, and like a Rosetta Stone®, learn our language. What are the odds?

e) They figure out where we are and come here to meet us.  Our FAR distant ancestors have no interest in communicating with creatures who still need ships to travel through interstellar space.  (And they know about these aliens, but didn't bother to contact them because they're so primitive.)

BTW, the reason Voyager stopped is because it reached the wall through which the "starlight" comes - from the giant globe within which the universe exists.  No creator - we just got the physics wrong.

[PopeyesPappy]

I wonder what the aliens will do with that golden record?

a) play frisbee with it
b) eat it
c) melt it and make jewelry
d) actually play it on a record player, and like a Rosetta Stone®, learn our language. What are the odds?

e) They figure out where we are and come here to meet us.

f) They figure out where we are and come here to eat us.

[josephpalazzo]

I wonder what the aliens will do with that golden record?

a) play frisbee with it
b) eat it
c) melt it and make jewelry
d) actually play it on a record player, and like a Rosetta Stone®, learn our language. What are the odds?

e) They figure out where we are and come here to meet us.

f) They figure out where we are and come here to eat us.

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zo ... man-12674/

[Brian37]

It is still amazing to me that a satellite has been surviving outer space while keeping in constant contact with the earth for over 40 years, but most people have to replace their cellphone every year.

But yeah, this is an amazing piece of work that NASA has delivered here. Really cool.

Meanwhile back on earth people fight over stupid comic books of antiquity, think the Kardashians and Duck Dynasty are good role models.

It would be awesome if most humans thought like he people who got Voyager where it is now. But sadly most are happy with propaganda and popular superstition.

[PopeyesPappy]

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/to-serve-man-12674/

I predict, "It's a cookbook." Without even clicking on the link.

[josephpalazzo]

Bingo

[atheist_austin]

This is exciting!  

[SGOS]

Huh. It seems it hasn't left the solar system after all. It has entered interstellar space, but won't have left the solar system until sometime after it passes the Ort cloud at least 300 years from now.

That helps put space in perspective.  40 years and it's still in the solar system.  Where does it get it's power to communicate?  It doesn't seem like there would be enough light that far out to capture energy with a solar panel.

[PopeyesPappy]

The Voyager craft are nuclear powered.

[Atheon]

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

I think that Philip K Dick beat you to it.

And the first Star Trek movie.

[Colanth]

I wonder what the aliens will do with that golden record?

a) play frisbee with it
b) eat it
c) melt it and make jewelry
d) actually play it on a record player, and like a Rosetta Stone®, learn our language. What are the odds?

e) They figure out where we are and come here to meet us.

f) They figure out where we are and come here to eat us.

Reminds me of the Ferdinand Feghoot episode, "Fanny Farmer's Cookbook".

But unless evolution took a strange turn, or they originally seeded Earth with life, I doubt that they'd be able to assimilate us gastronomically.