A probe that was launched a long time ago is shutting down. Even Star Trek had Voyager in it thou rather upgraded from when it was launched. One of the Games I play Star Trek online has two episodes with the upgraded Voyager probe called V'Ger. V'Ger was introduced in the Star Trek Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In any event back to now the probe is about to run out of steam. The following article is from interestingengineering.com and written by Brad Bergan.
"The two probes are losing steam after the greatest adventure ever.
We're tremendously close to the end of an era.
Way back in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 launched and began the greatest adventure ever taken by an uncrewed space probe. Traveling past all of the outer planets (minus Pluto), they fundamentally transformed our grasp of the solar system, and how it came into being. But the interstellar journey of the iconic probes — which has already lasted nearly 45 years — is coming to a close, as NASA starts the process of shutting the spacecrafts' systems down, according to an initial report from Scientific American.
Nothing made by humans has traveled as far as these probes. And it proves that deep space beckons humanity to take its next steps in a wider universe.
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 are running out of power
Launched in 1977, the two probes pushed the envelope for space exploration, and have continued to do so ever since. It's impossible to overemphasize how deep in space these probes have gone, traveling farther from the planet Earth than any object ever built by humans. As such, these voyagers will likely hold the record of the most distant human-made objects for decades, if not a century.
The decision to cut power to a minimum was made to extend the probes' lifespans for a few more years, with a soft cutoff deadline set for 2030, according to the Scientific American report. "We've done 10 times the warranty on the darn things," said Physicist Ralph McNutt at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the report, with reference to the unprecedented longevity of the probes expected to last four short years.
Four years!
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While incredible, this isn't a total surprise. Both probes are powered with radioactive plutonium reactors, which have maintained a warm supply of power to the tiny onboard computers that have run for decades without a break.
But, alas, the break is coming.
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 are humanity's first tentative step into a wider universe
Every year, the energy in the probes' systems is decreasing by roughly 4 watts, according to the report. This means progressively more components and devices need to be shut down as the power supply dwindles. "If everything goes really well, maybe we can get the missions extended into the 2030s," said Linda Spilker, a JPL planetary scientist who worked on the dawn of the Voyager missions, in 1977.
"It just depends on the power. That's the limiting point," added Spilker. The primary mission of the probes was to do a flyby of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn — and they did it with flying colors (literally); sending the first up-close and detailed images of Europa, Ganymede, Titan, and more. But perhaps the most significant image took more than a decade to make happen.
In 1990, Voyager 1 snapped an image of Earth, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun. Famously popularized by the late astronomer Carl Sagan, the "pale blue dot" served to expose how small and fragile our entire existence really is — from the wars of ancient civilization, our petty political grandstanding, the exploitation of the planet's ecosystem, and our entire evolutionary journey to the present day. It was all there, in a tiny blue speck in a seemingly infinite, black, and indifferent universe.
If there's one thing we should think of the iconic probes, it's this: the human race has existed for a very small blink of the eye in the history of the universe, on a tiny and fragile planet that won't be here for long. And there's an entire universe beckoning us to step out of our comfort zones of human hubris, and into the greatest adventure yet. Voyager 1 and 2 are and will be our first tentative step into cosmic adulthood, as a young population of sentient beings."
Amazing how long these probe have lasted when they were designed to last four years and yet from the launch in 1977 they are still ticking. It is sad to see the end of these probes, but hay they could come back as a large blue could in space and call itself V'Ger. ;)
Reference: https://interestingengineering.com/nasa-voyager-probes-shut-down
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
Recently, a study showed an hour-long sound bowl meditation reduced anger, fatigue, anxiety, and ...
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"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
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"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
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We all have heard about chaos theory, but if you have not or have forgotten what chaos theory is well here you go from interestingengineering.com:
"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
Since the smallest of changes can lead to vastly different outcomes, the long-term behavior of chaotic systems is difficult to predict despite their inherently deterministic nature.
As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
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The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
"A new study looks at how accurately AI can diagnose patients. We interview the researcher, who weighs in on AI's role ...
