Centaur launches Voyager 2

Since it left Earth’s atmosphere 33 years ago, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has constantly beamed back to Earth information of its travels through space. It also has on board a map of the location of our solar system and Earth, just in case Aliens want to drop by and enslave us all I guess. On board with the maps is also a disk that contains music and sounds from around the world titles “Sounds from Earth”. A compilation that was select by Carl Sagan and others.

The sounds include that of everyday life on earth: Thunder, trains, barnyard animals, cars and other not so everyday life sounds (for most) like whales, volcanoes, F111 jet fighthers…

The disk also has greetings in 55 languages as well as music from all over.  Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” rocks!

Apparently there are some issues with the data transmissions as of lately. Scrambled signals are being received here on Earth from the craft. From the article:

Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:”It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth”.

Although I doubt that some Alien “hijacked” Voyager 2. Seems like some technical difficulties are amidst. Leave it to those wacky “Alien experts” to get on the news….

Full source:  DailyTelegraph AU

IT left Earth 33 years ago, now it’s claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can’t decode.

NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.

But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!

The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information – is it a secret message?

Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:”It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth”.

Engineers are working to solve the data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said today.

The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.

Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most distant human-made objects.

Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space.

Voyager 2 will follow after that.

My question is:

If the “Sounds of the Earth” soundtrack includes Beethoven’s ‘Fifth Symphony’, where is Lil’ Wayne at?

PS: If you ever wondered what my ‘hood looks like, that video was shot on my block.