PBS Voyager retrospective: The Farthest

Post #419,940 by Ashton 8/24/17 2:23:11 AM 8/24/17 2:23:11 AM Reply	PBS Voyager retrospective: The Farthest VOYAGER IN SPACE Young Carl Sagan et-al ... interruption for Space Shuttle tragedy. Lots of fascinating details, Problem of a frozen gear and-how-solved. Superb navigating and problem solving (and a sharp-eyed image scanner seeing: volcanism! geyser!! in a few pixels..) so easily just overlooked. Concludes with relevant follow-up actions, since; future missions and such, beyond Cassini. Look back --> Earth from Uranus: Commercials Tee Vee, were there no PBS. 2 hrs.
Post #419,986 by a6l6e6x 8/26/17 2:18:04 PM 8/26/17 2:18:04 PM Reply	Thanks, Ashton! DVR set to record the program at 5:00 AM tomorrow on local PBS. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #419,988 by Ashton 8/26/17 4:05:03 PM 8/26/17 4:05:03 PM Reply	Onward! ---> Pluto Base (My preferred Elba) for Secure-keeping of the perps soon to be sentenced for Terminal-Mopery and thus, exile Who says!? that space has no practical applications.. Bet we could fit the entire G.O.P. onto Pluto.. for a while. Now THERE's ... the New American Dream, innit?
Post #419,991 by a6l6e6x 8/26/17 10:01:10 PM 8/26/17 10:01:10 PM Reply	Incidentally, a Voyager Golden Record story is here: in the The New Yorker. Interesting how NASA initially rejected it because it was "out of spec" having been annotated with the dedication “To the makers of music—all worlds, all times.” Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #420,034 by Ashton 8/29/17 4:17:17 AM 8/29/17 4:17:17 AM Reply	Fascinating.. Those dates.. in '72 and ~Launch date of Voyager via usual 20/20 hindsight: mesh with a number of events as would be utterly-TMI (to moi) ... even to limn. Overall, in That choice of a "medium" for transmission to the Unknown/Unknowable of what.. a few pretty-smart Homo-saps deem ..well, All and Everything! which homo-sap deems Most Significant about Us + our Tenure on--an increasingly-embattled, once Shining natural Jewel of--a PLANET ... well, por moi the Choice was 'fascinating' while also being hilarious in this sense: Starting from Edison's wax-cylinders ---> Onward, I cannot think of a comparable situation to the unending-Search for "near-perfect capturing-thence-re-playing" of AUDIO [!!] Never mind 'scientific method' as some Sole arbiter of that 'Perfection', given the emotional qualities of any {at-all-memorable} opus eliding the ludicrous-pricing bizness-du-jour of [n+] gadgets competing for individual Champion of Ludicrosity (?? er, Shirley that' IS their game.) Ergo: {chortle} NOW-as-of-1977 "We" have sent out to the Cosmos ... a 33 1/3? 16 2/3? RPM pair of vinyl-in-Gold L.P.s Let's imagine Aliens 1, 2, 3 ...n ... Whenever ... Wherever ... HOW!ever: goin through the perpetually-unFinished Terran search for - - - - -> The. Best. Playback. (maybe in Hilbert Space? by-any-Alien-sobriquet.) Love. It. ;^> (Y'all'd have to have been a 'Audio Conslutant' for a period, to grok-to-Fullness.)
Post #420,085 by a6l6e6x 8/30/17 11:34:20 PM 8/30/17 11:34:20 PM Reply	One more link at NY Times. Forty Years of Voyager Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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