Naked Snake Posted September 6, 2003 It's been doing cool shit in space for over 14 years. Read more at slashdot.org. Also, check out this plasma wind sound that it picked up : PLASMA WIND RLZ 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted September 6, 2003 Heh, for some reason I always thought the Galileo probe would never die :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Draconio Posted September 6, 2003 Hmmm... Galileo... was that newer or older than Voyager? 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom_Dude Posted September 6, 2003 I'm sure Voyager gotta be wayyyyy older.. [edit] That Plasma Wind jobby is pretty freaky. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Draconio Posted September 6, 2003 The plasma wind sound would make good ambient sound for a computer station, if you ask me... 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted September 7, 2003 lament said:bbg reads slashdot That was my first reaction too :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Dark Fox Posted September 7, 2003 DooMBoy said:Heh, for some reason I always thought the Galileo probe would never die :P I wont, its running linux. 0 Share this post Link to post
Python_Junkie Posted September 7, 2003 Beeping wind...that's different. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted September 7, 2003 Python_Junkie said:Beeping wind...that's different. Our atmospheric density and air currents are what are responsible for the way our wind vibrates. In space, the wind would be much less dense, scattering through the vacum all the time. When it hits the microphone it will do it intermittently, not in a steady stream like here on Earth. 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted September 7, 2003 Awesome sound. So when was Galileo launched again? 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted September 7, 2003 It would make for a kickass intro to a song. 0 Share this post Link to post
Spray Posted September 7, 2003 I think the beeping is coming from the probe itself. Either way, it's pretty eerie. 0 Share this post Link to post
Python_Junkie Posted September 7, 2003 Ultraviolet said:Our atmospheric density and air currents are what are responsible for the way our wind vibrates. In space, the wind would be much less dense, scattering through the vacum all the time. When it hits the microphone it will do it intermittently, not in a steady stream like here on Earth. You think I didn't know that? Like the ad for the movie Alien said: "In space, no one can hear you scream..." 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 8, 2003 hearing that made me want to jerk off! just kidding, wierd sounding. the beeping i think is the probe itself (or some alien porn it found) 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 9, 2003 i wonder when the first manned mission to the sun will take place? i mean they need to do it like now, while the earth is the closest to the sun 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted September 10, 2003 Damn, I'm on a linux box at school with no sound. Now I have to wait until my friend comes by with his laptop and wireless card. I'm surprised that probe would die anytime soon. Pioneer 10 kept going for years and years and years and they kept finding new ways to communicate with it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 10, 2003 i wonder if they could communicate with the voyagers if they really tried. however i bet they are mostly dead or close to it 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted September 10, 2003 Sephiroth said:i wonder if they could communicate with the voyagers if they really tried. however i bet they are mostly dead or close to it Or on the other side of the galaxy being turned into superpowerful childlike AI. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted September 10, 2003 Or being used as target practice by Klingons. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dark Fox Posted September 10, 2003 Ichor said:Or being used as target practice by Klingons. Lol 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted September 11, 2003 Damn though, that would be cool if the Voyager programming did have some sort of... error that caused it to actually gather enough information and act on it and come back home and share... 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted September 11, 2003 Star Trek writers are weird. They have no concept that those things wouldn't go anywhere. The first warp ship they built would have passed all our probes in a matter of days, max. So the Klingons must have been hanging out close by when they shot up Pioneer 10 in Star Trek V and there must be a black hole really close by too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted September 12, 2003 Aliotroph? said:Star Trek writers are weird. They have no concept that those things wouldn't go anywhere. The first warp ship they built would have passed all our probes in a matter of days, max. So the Klingons must have been hanging out close by when they shot up Pioneer 10 in Star Trek V and there must be a black hole really close by too. The first warp ship didn't even make it as far as Mars. Didn't you ever watch First Contact? And I think you mean a wormhole, not a black hole. Wormholes allow ships to travel instantaneously from one end to the other. Black holes will just crush them with their infinate mass. ------------- WARNING: THE COMBINATION OF WATCHING STAR TREK: NIMESIS AND OBTAINING A COPY OF STAR TREK - ARMADA WITHIN THE SPAN OF A WEEK CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH IF YOU HAVE A PAST HISTORY OF TREK FANDOM. This PSA has been brought to you by the Anti-Nerdism Association. 0 Share this post Link to post