{"id":455,"date":"2007-09-03T22:36:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2007\/09\/voyagers_still_chatting\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:36:50","slug":"voyagers_still_chatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2007\/09\/voyagers_still_chatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyagers Still Chatting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The farthest manmade objects from the sun are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyager_program\">Voyager 1 and Voyager 2<\/a>, both launched in 1977. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/science\/thirty-years-tracking-faint-whispers-from-space\/2007\/08\/31\/1188067368154.html\">This article<\/a> is about the equipment that has to be maintained to keep talking to them.<\/p>\n<p>They are supposed to call home until 2020. One calls once per month and the other calls every day. Not sure why the difference. I thought one of these 2 were the basis for V&#8217;ger in the first Star Trek movie, but I just read it was a fictional Voyager 6. (We only made two.)<\/p>\n<p>If we can have &#8220;pong&#8221; emulators, why can&#8217;t our laptops have Voyager emulators? (Ted?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The farthest manmade objects from the sun are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977. This article is about the equipment that has to be maintained to keep talking to them. They are supposed to call home until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2007\/09\/voyagers_still_chatting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}