Will man one day be able to communicate farther out in space than we can today?
@lookatdesktop (27156)
Dallas, Texas
March 21, 2016 5:55pm CST
They say Voyager will eventually go too far to be able to reliably transmit back to Earth. At some point radio transmission has a finite limit.
By the year 2022 or as far as 2025, before the Voyagers fun out of power, we will continue to receive data from these two space probes.
The limitations are not so much in our antenna arrays today, but more in the fact that the probes have a finite amount of fuel. So I guess if they had a double dose of fuel than they do now things would be different. Oh well. The probes being sent out now are of course Kepler and the Hubble space telescopes. Hubble just orbits the Earth and scopes out the sky without the background glare of Earth's atmosphere, while Kepler is out there, pointed at Cygnus. There it looks for wobbling stars that would indicate orbiting planets, called super Earths.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
22 Mar 16
I am sure it will happen eventually but I hope it will be in our lifetime. I am hoping for the nanotechnology and Organ printing technology will be a success within this decade so I can live for 200 years because I want to witness the progress of space colonization.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
22 Mar 16
@lookatdesktop I prefer to be awake to witness all that progress. Someday The Earth shows will be broadcasted live in a human space colony somewhere in Sagittarius constellation.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
22 Mar 16
@CaptAlbertWhisker , well, it could be those fine folks out in Sagittarius are already streaming live YouTube videos as we text.
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