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Do you think we'll ever catch up with the Voyager Spacecraft?

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A leap in propulsion, and we can bring it back to earth and put it in the Smithsonian. Heh, I think there was a star trek episode where they found some people from the 20th century cryogenically frozen and adrift in a spaceship. Same idea.
 
Originally posted by: yellowfiero
A leap in propulsion, and we can bring it back to earth and put it in the Smithsonian. Heh, I think there was a star trek episode where they found some people from the 20th century cryogenically frozen and adrift in a spaceship. Same idea.
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You mean Veger or

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Assuming we can ever travel faster than light (and that's a BIG if), then at the speed it's traveling, it'd still basically be on our doorstep for a long time.
 
Voyager?

Hell, I'd be happy with Enterprise(Or whatever the ship in the current running prequel is).
 
I'd bet that we will have the capability to catch up to it. Better question: Do you think we'll ever find it worth the cost to catch up with the Voyager Spacecraft? No.
 
Cripes. We're not even looking at saving the Hubble anymore which is something we can easily do.

Anwer - No way. Unless some of our decendents happen to end up close to it.... and even then I doubt it. It was built to have a final mission of being discovered by aliens, hence the plaque.
 
We'll catch it.. if the US ever decides to get off its collective ass and start thinking about useful and practical ways to get into space. Using the space shuttle to muck about in low earth orbit at $500M per launch is ridiculous.
 
Originally posted by: bernse
Cripes. We're not even looking at saving the Hubble anymore which is something we can easily do.

Anwer - No way. Unless some of our decendents happen to end up close to it.... and even then I doubt it. It was built to have a final mission of being discovered by aliens, hence the plaque.
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Exactly. We don't have to catch up. When we're first testing FTL travel, some alien race will swing by with it, plop down on earth and go "Damn, if you guys hadn't set off those crude engines, we never would've found this shithole. Your map sucked."
 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Originally posted by: yellowfiero
A leap in propulsion, and we can bring it back to earth and put it in the Smithsonian. Heh, I think there was a star trek episode where they found some people from the 20th century cryogenically frozen and adrift in a spaceship. Same idea.
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You mean Veger or

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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haha, nerd 🙂
 
Our ideas of space travel are probably crude and relatively short-sighted compared to what we'll actually have in the future. LOL, just look at early science fiction movies/novels...some of their ideas are incredibly complicated and have been solved in modern times with simpler, more efficient technology.

What I'm saying is, why bother with spacecraft at all??? Why not just 'beam' ourselves across the universe...something closer to StarGate technology-wise??
 
I will say that it is highly unlikely that hte Voyager will be in one piece by the time we can catch up with it. Odds are that something on it will fail or it will crash into something.
 
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