Hey dudes, Im 37 years old and my decaying radioactive batteries are still powering a signal to you guys. It takes 15 hours before you get them, and another 15 hours before I get a response. My batteries are ebbing. I feel tired. Ive shut down my non-essential systems (optical camera, etc) as theres nothing to see anymore. Im just sniffing the heliosheath and firing data back via my 70s circuits. Have you ever smelt what interstellar space is like without solar influence? It smells cold, like theres nothing there. The solar wind doesnt keep me warm anymore. Im picking up bits of interstellar snuff, but its not from home. There are some people who are catching my signals with some huge radio dishes, we exchange radio pleasantries. They are saying are things like rotate 170 degrees and realign with the sun.I geoscopically rotate around until I align with the Sun. I need to make sure my dish is pointing homeward, I drift out of alignment occasionally. I respond with data about what happens when you leave the influence of the sun. I can still see it, but by now its a bright blob when I look homeward. I cant see anything I recognise anymore, its just a pin-prick of light in the darkness. Ill be okay for a few years, but be assured, Ive got a plaque on board that illustrates our best guess at conveying our existence to any intelligent system that might pick me up. If they do, by that time Ill be a lifeless hunk of metal. Night guys, Its cold out here, but Ill carry on. Regards, Voyager 2
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:53:15 +0000
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