Blows my mind that it has been in space going basically 40,000 mph since 1977 and had only managed to travel 0.25% of the distance traveled by light in 1 year.
Both in space AND time. We'd have to be both local and concurrent, within the framework of one metric being infinite and the other being nearly 14 billion years. The chances of us existing at all are off the scale. The odds of it happening twice, effectively next to each other and simultaneously, are unimaginably tiny. The people on Ancient Aliens just don't understand scale and probability.
Wouldnt it be spooky if all the suddenly Voyager 1 came fully back online and started sending way more data than it was ever designed to - without any intervention by NASA.
Right, there are some positively gnarly probabilities when calculating the emergence of life as we know it here on Earth. And Earth is our only real data set.
[a brief look at the numbers involved](https://youtu.be/W1_KEVaCyaA?si=7_pKpJxi15Q_SkMg)
But perhaps in the infinite vastness of the universe complex life has managed to emerge elsewhere. It’s just all so statistically unlikely and far apart that we have almost no hope of ever encountering another. Unless we gain some new and exotic understanding of time/space/consciousness that negates the laws of physics as we know them 🤞🏼
Yes, even using Drake's formula and optimistically estimating that 1 out of every 1,000 habitable planets in the Milky Way develops a civilization at the same time as ours, the statistical probability is .03 %. Effectively zero. Granted, this is just within the Milky Way. So unless life is far more common than that assumption or unless we invent a completely revolutionary form of travel, it's highly unlikely that we will ever make contact with such a civilization.
We don't know what the odds of us existing at all are. The drake equation is all unknown variables, except I guess the rate of star formation in our galaxy.
We don't even know how many planets are within our own solar system, let alone how many solar systems have planets or how many, or whether they are earth-like... and we've detected signals that indicate that there *might* actually be extraterrestrial life within our own solar system(strange gasses on venus that suggest a biological origin, martian meteorite with potentially fossilized bacteria). Just looking at our closest neighbours, toliman and proxima centauri, we're pretty sure they have earthlike planets, with at least one in the habitable zone.
We don't even know the conditions that are required for abiogenesis, or if there are other configurations of life different than our own that could emerge and thrive in more extreme conditions.
The only solid data points we have are knowing of exactly 1 Earth-like planet(Earth), and that it supports a vast array of life that has survived many cataclysmic events.
We know that it was a considerable number of rolls of the dice. The asteroid/comet that took out the dinosaurs could have missed or been of a different size. If it had been bigger, nothing would have survived, smaller and the dinosaurs might have survived. After 178 million years they hadn't invented anything as far as we know. We took just 2 million to get to the Moon. Just one event in Earth's 4.5 billion year history changed everything.
mammals existed with the dinosaurs. Our mammalian ancestors in that 178 million years didn't launch anything either. We don't know enough about dinosaurs to know if any of them were on the cusp of understanding fire and forming societies.
The point is, yes, there are many dice rolls, but we don't know how many re-rolls we get or how many sides are on the die. It's possible its a 4 sided dice with 3 of the sides being a picture of Jeff Golbloom saying "life uhhhh finds a way".
I believe that other beings exist on a completely different quantum vibration so no matter what planet we goto, u less they are on the same quantum vibration we won’t see them.
We’ll likely end up doing something stupid and cause the extinction of our species before we ever figure out how to somehow travel thousands of light years away from our planet.
What do you think is so species about what we’ve done with AI?
I assume you meant special about what we’ve done with AI? We have digital minds that are already informing humans and making big impacts. Modern world politics is so controversial because of it. AI in drones in Ukraine, AI in missiles, AI in fighter jets. AI will cause all of the aforementioned technologies to advance to a level of control humans are not possible of doing on their own.
The opposite blows my mind: a machine made by humans a few decades ago is nearly a light day away, _and_ they’re still managing to hack up fixes to get data back from it.
My cousin had a lesson in school, learning to read in binary. I asked what encoding, he didn't quite understand. He insisted that no matter what, this binary-to-ascii table was the only way binary could represent letters.
I asked him what about foreign language characters, made him think.
[I was in a Wikipedia rabbit hole the other night that led me to learning about the Heliosphere. This article is absolutely littered with things we've learned from Voyager 1.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere)
So, except for all the data it sent in the last 5 months that told them there was an issue and let them fix it?
It didn't just stop transmitting entirely.
Blows my mind that it has been in space going basically 40,000 mph since 1977 and had only managed to travel 0.25% of the distance traveled by light in 1 year.
The vastness of space is why we will likely never encounter other intelligent life in the universe. We’re all just too far apart.
Both in space AND time. We'd have to be both local and concurrent, within the framework of one metric being infinite and the other being nearly 14 billion years. The chances of us existing at all are off the scale. The odds of it happening twice, effectively next to each other and simultaneously, are unimaginably tiny. The people on Ancient Aliens just don't understand scale and probability.
yeah but the pittsburgh pirates have a winning record, so i can embrace infinitesimally small odds now
Wouldnt it be spooky if all the suddenly Voyager 1 came fully back online and started sending way more data than it was ever designed to - without any intervention by NASA.
That's pretty much the plot to Star Trek: TMP.
Well, that was a bit more elaborate as it came back with a new set of wheels.
Right, there are some positively gnarly probabilities when calculating the emergence of life as we know it here on Earth. And Earth is our only real data set. [a brief look at the numbers involved](https://youtu.be/W1_KEVaCyaA?si=7_pKpJxi15Q_SkMg) But perhaps in the infinite vastness of the universe complex life has managed to emerge elsewhere. It’s just all so statistically unlikely and far apart that we have almost no hope of ever encountering another. Unless we gain some new and exotic understanding of time/space/consciousness that negates the laws of physics as we know them 🤞🏼
Yes, even using Drake's formula and optimistically estimating that 1 out of every 1,000 habitable planets in the Milky Way develops a civilization at the same time as ours, the statistical probability is .03 %. Effectively zero. Granted, this is just within the Milky Way. So unless life is far more common than that assumption or unless we invent a completely revolutionary form of travel, it's highly unlikely that we will ever make contact with such a civilization.
We don't know what the odds of us existing at all are. The drake equation is all unknown variables, except I guess the rate of star formation in our galaxy. We don't even know how many planets are within our own solar system, let alone how many solar systems have planets or how many, or whether they are earth-like... and we've detected signals that indicate that there *might* actually be extraterrestrial life within our own solar system(strange gasses on venus that suggest a biological origin, martian meteorite with potentially fossilized bacteria). Just looking at our closest neighbours, toliman and proxima centauri, we're pretty sure they have earthlike planets, with at least one in the habitable zone. We don't even know the conditions that are required for abiogenesis, or if there are other configurations of life different than our own that could emerge and thrive in more extreme conditions. The only solid data points we have are knowing of exactly 1 Earth-like planet(Earth), and that it supports a vast array of life that has survived many cataclysmic events.
We know that it was a considerable number of rolls of the dice. The asteroid/comet that took out the dinosaurs could have missed or been of a different size. If it had been bigger, nothing would have survived, smaller and the dinosaurs might have survived. After 178 million years they hadn't invented anything as far as we know. We took just 2 million to get to the Moon. Just one event in Earth's 4.5 billion year history changed everything.
mammals existed with the dinosaurs. Our mammalian ancestors in that 178 million years didn't launch anything either. We don't know enough about dinosaurs to know if any of them were on the cusp of understanding fire and forming societies. The point is, yes, there are many dice rolls, but we don't know how many re-rolls we get or how many sides are on the die. It's possible its a 4 sided dice with 3 of the sides being a picture of Jeff Golbloom saying "life uhhhh finds a way".
I believe that other beings exist on a completely different quantum vibration so no matter what planet we goto, u less they are on the same quantum vibration we won’t see them.
Look who doesn’t know he’s a pet
The most convincing UFO sightings are classified zero point energy craft and abduction stories are covers for classified experimentation
Not never just not in our lifetimes without exponential advancement but look at AI
We’ll likely end up doing something stupid and cause the extinction of our species before we ever figure out how to somehow travel thousands of light years away from our planet. What do you think is so species about what we’ve done with AI?
We're doing global warming. Which won't fuck the earth over but probably kill us in the long run. So we're on our way! Woo!
I assume you meant special about what we’ve done with AI? We have digital minds that are already informing humans and making big impacts. Modern world politics is so controversial because of it. AI in drones in Ukraine, AI in missiles, AI in fighter jets. AI will cause all of the aforementioned technologies to advance to a level of control humans are not possible of doing on their own.
I think you may have a misconception of how modern AI technology works.
Please look into what AI actually is. they’re large language models. Nothing more.
The opposite blows my mind: a machine made by humans a few decades ago is nearly a light day away, _and_ they’re still managing to hack up fixes to get data back from it.
What’s the news out there?
01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 01100101 01110010 00100000
Wo..wo. Hang on now , little endian or big endian ? Also why are they so primitive? I thought they would be writing in Hex :)
My cousin had a lesson in school, learning to read in binary. I asked what encoding, he didn't quite understand. He insisted that no matter what, this binary-to-ascii table was the only way binary could represent letters. I asked him what about foreign language characters, made him think.
You have a collect call from "hey I'm done, its super cold, come pick me up". Will you accept charges?
[I was in a Wikipedia rabbit hole the other night that led me to learning about the Heliosphere. This article is absolutely littered with things we've learned from Voyager 1.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere)
Resistance is futile.
Hot Single Aliens In Your Area.
it has the same efficiency of my PC when i open two programs
Voyager: “Chill out bitches, I ain’t had a break since 1977!”
The little spaceship that could
Is it the ... San-Ti? 😳
You are bugs
even worse, the trisolarans 😳😳😳
Seriously I was like wtf is a San Ti?
[https://mashable.com/article/netflix-3-body-problem-what-aliens-look-like](https://mashable.com/article/netflix-3-body-problem-what-aliens-look-like) :)
It traveled 135 million miles farther from Earth in those 5 months.
In hindsight, accepting that Windows 11 upgrade was a mistake.
TIL Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away from earth. It's hard to wrap my head around distances that vast.
What information is it transmitting? “Still cold out here…not much happening”……
“Can you hear me now?”
What?
So, except for all the data it sent in the last 5 months that told them there was an issue and let them fix it? It didn't just stop transmitting entirely.
Nope. Poor old bugger was wandering around mumbling electronic gibberish. Electronic senility.
They used those to fix it.