May be it crossed into an area of space where physics is different.
adrian_b 9 hours ago [-]
A big unknown planet has crossed the path between Voyager 1 and the Earth, blocking the radio signals for 2 days !
(This is not impossible, because a planet so far away would have an extremely low angular velocity, so an occultation could take so long even for a not very big planet.)
hyperhello 11 hours ago [-]
Maybe it was waiting to go through the inter-solar customs line to get out.
xeonmc 8 hours ago [-]
Maybe it has gained sentience on its own and is trying to awaken other space probes.
tobadzistsini 14 hours ago [-]
"Mysteriously". The gadget is pushing fifty with vintage hardware in a hostile environment. One could say a 90 year old grandma was asleep, presumed dead, and when the paramedics showed she woke up with, "What's all the fuss?"
snailmailman 12 hours ago [-]
At the same time, every component and line of code is known. Presumably they can simulate and test for all sorts of crazy exotic problems and error cases. It’s surprising that they’ve hit a new type of problem.
michelb 12 hours ago [-]
Could it have crashed into something? I find it incredible that that hadn’t happened yet.
thomascountz 11 hours ago [-]
On the one hand, it has crashed into a lot of somethings—like cosmic radiation and micrometeorites. On the other hand, there is a lot of space in space, and the chances of Voyager crashing into something of the same or larger scale as itself is infinitesimal.
Shawnj2 9 hours ago [-]
If it did crash into anything probably like a grain or sand or something stupid like that.
adrian_b 9 hours ago [-]
Whatever happened, it was temporary, because radio contact was established again after a 2-day pause.
chiengineer3 14 hours ago [-]
I hope it's not because I used chatgpt to find signals outside of the internet and it successfully connected to voyager 1 somehow lmao
asanineassasin 16 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 05:54:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
(This is not impossible, because a planet so far away would have an extremely low angular velocity, so an occultation could take so long even for a not very big planet.)