Wow

That's awesome

As far as the Milky Way goes, the Voyagers are still in our own back yard! Only 60,960 years until they get anywhere close to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri!

That generation will consist of machines created by man. Mankind will have destroyed itself well before then.

Forget that theory! The next generation of this society will probaly go extinct because of their stupidity! They can't even determine if their a boy, girl, man or woman! If Americans keeps electing foolish politicians? They'll not just be a culture of confused , poorly educated fools, with low mentality? They'll end up marrying animals and breeding with them!😎

Mayyyyybe

I actually scroll down and read this comment the exact time it was played on the video!

It pleases me to know that I'm not the only one getting emotional about these amazing space missions.

I know. Now I'm worried about the friggin things. I hope they look both ways before crossing this "interstellar highway."

Yes they did a good job of explaining these missions.

I know, right

I know right, I feel so bad for the spacecrafts, just orbiting forever long after human civilization has come and gone.

Imagine the people who made this possible how they feel

I know exactly what you mean and feel the same way. I've been fascinated with information like this my whole life as it speaks to the eternity of our Spirits and our infinite natures. We all have something to look forward to after we die!

Exactly! Far too much of us prefer to focus on our flaws as humans, thereby adding to our flaws.

Exactly!

Hell yea! I had a same reaction.

don't, continue to expand

do not ,expand further...……………………….never be happy with stuff like sports and minless entertainment.

I find myself just as perplexed...I can't even fathom 1000 years let alone 225 million. Thats 225,000,000 years for a single orbit around our galactic plane at about 39,000mph... If this doesn't prove Rick is right that nothing matters and everything does...then I don't know what else to say.

🎂🎁

Respect.

Robert Fletcher very touching. Godspeed friend.

I was eighteen when they departed on their journey.. You are going to be an octogenarian next year? Wow!!! I'll be a hexagenarian next year. I do not expect to live as long as you have. Poor health has always been an issue and has taken its toll. Some are blessed with good health while others are not. So I can empathize with the systemic degeneracy and consequential systemic failure as it is happening to me currently. i do understand that all too well. Whatever is not regenerate is degenerate as life is dynamic and there is no stasis in living organisms. You are either growing or your dying. Whatever is static is dead. And you are still here and so am I here. And i will be arriving somewhere but not here. I agree. It has been a good life. It could have been worse...but...it was not. It is as it is and I will not have it any other way.

Happy B day

I agree

It's just a machine, and yet it is a piece of us travelling in the infinite space. So beautiful.

I felt the same by... sad yes, but more a yearning. As a species we will no longer exist in present form, if at all 500,000 years hence. Yet we will travel on to infinity-ish with our voices and visage embossed on gold records. Proud too like you. They might well be the two singular memories of our entire existence. It's way Vast and Deep when you ponder it.

I felt the same, we can relate to their loneliness far out there. So proud of those machines ❤️

I felt the same way too. Great comment. :(

I couldn't help the feeling of being brought almost to tears for the loneliness I felt on behalf of the Voyagers. Strange however, that they will very likely outlast us. Very proud of them.

And that is why NASA is looking for younger people who know FORTRAN,COBOL and assembly language the language(so they can be taught the special GE variant used in Voyager) that the Voyagers were programmed in.

There are several articles that say that is some COBOL, I doubted that myself, as COBOL is a VERY resource inefficient which so not something you want on a spacecraft. No doubt on the Assembler and FORTRAN.

wouldn't be surprised if they were using FORTH

@@marcusdamberger WOW! I would've just replied "see 6:27"

@Marcus Damberger Your insights are appreciated.

me too

I thought so too, but didn't they just leave the solar system and entered interstellar space (as of 2012) and it is the next nearest star is 30,000 light years away

Rob Kaniak It will take a 30000 years to the point where other star's gravitation start to accelerate it. That is what I have red. Edit: Or maybe not.

@@RichardCowdrey they technically included the Oort cloud in the solar system. It lies outside the Heliosphere and is considered interstellar space but is still part of the system.

Thank you, Rob!

Richard Cowdrey not 30000 light years just 30000 years+ depending on which probes speed they are doing the maths on. The nearest star is Proxima Centuria 4.2 light years away but that is still 25,000,000,000,000 miles away

HA HA HA HA HA , I STRONGLY AGREE !!!

I heard somewhere that the cost per taxpayer was around .76 cents. (taxpayers from the 70's, not today's current taxpayers) Now I call that great bang for the buck! That keeps on giving dividends! Think of all the science we leaned about our solar system because of the Voyager spacecraft's.

joshuaoha I would say we have indeed, hate to see them disappear into deep space, travel on old friends

Investing in science pays dividends way into the future!

+joshuaoha - I'm an Israeli which salutes the U.S citizens for funding one of the greatest human achievement- NASA. The objects you send to other worlds are not only american objects, they are human ones. I deeply thank you for that.

You must be from a certain group of humans who are capable of engineering this amazing feat and that is a special group to belong to.. Not all humans are capable of this elevated thinking, and they are not the least bit impressed.

Agreed, there are those who will be proud of this amazing achievement and others who point out the Voyagers aren't in interstellar space as they haven't passed the Oort cloud!

Die Voyager Raumsonden sind dazu bestimmt, vielleicht für alle Ewigkeit, den Kosmos zu durchqueren und die einzigen Spuren unserer menschlichen Existenz mit sich zu führen. -deepL.com

The latest rover that lasted 16 yrs on mars was the longest any of our space craft have ever operated.Other than the Hubble space telescope and the ISS.Both Voyagers are still in operation and were made in the 1970's.WoW! Our space program companies need to focus on good long lasting quality space craft.Not just pushing an agenda to go somewhere,completing a mission,while sacrificing that quality.If it's not made and programmed well by talented engineers it won't last long enough to get the job done and do even greater things afterwards.Just like the Voyagers are still doing now.All because quality mattered over cost.Not the other way around.

our memory is forever implanted in the collective conscience. We came from something before us, and whatever comes after us, will include a part of humanity. It's physics.

Well said

@@bigcountry5520 that was beautiful man

They are old friends from my childhood. watching them, listening to the progress and tales that they still tell moves me. I get tears in my eyes and often down my cheeks, realizing the epic journey these two mighty adventurers mean to mankind.

My goodness, you have a beautiful mind. 😍

how amout the next one million years...but i think long before that we will not exist as the same species

I remain hopeful. I was a teenager when these were launched. Now just a little over 40+ years later...KZfaq is being polluted with "Flat Earth" videos! (facepalm) Who'd have guessed?!? I just wish there was something close by for these craft to actually take pictures of! Kuiper Belt objects will be too dim to see anything useful,I'm guessing. Still,amazing to think about,Nice upload here,Thanks!

@@shanetune1 the existence of the flat earthers even after the achievements in technology that requires acceptance of the round earth, (including the internet) is an ironic tragedy...

1900 to 1970 saw the greatest technological advancements. 1970 to today....Not so much.

It is a human feeling

Little, but proud af!

@@thisguy9042 Definitely a little bit of both.

I feel sad and proud.

they both need a hug

I don't. This is what they were built for, in a way, and thus one can hope that if they could feel anything, they'd feel proud of where they are now....

Nope, that is the true scale of our and every other star system.

Yeah I agree about the hardware but I am a programmer and a program cannot fail. It will do whatever you programmed for a billion years. It cannot fail unless you change it...think about it.....

This was when soldering contained lead.

Today there is no need to build anything to last a lifetime because things don't get old, they get outdated or old-fashioned. When I was a little boy (now 66) we bought refrigerators with a lifetime guarantee. Is there anything today you would buy just because they may guarantee it to last a lifetime? However you are partly correct. There are things that should work for ten years, but last only until Monday.

As a MSC in computer sciences I fully agree

Totally Agreed With You............

That is really cool!

Not stupid all. i can relate to what your saying and how you feel , its great that you watched it, i was born in 69 i was 8 i cant remember seeing any footage of voaygers leaving our planet i watch every update possible. 2025-2027 will be a very sad when we say goodbye to the voaygers i really hope we all celebrate their 50th birthday with them ! that would be great

Not stupid at all.

mp3ste1 I was born in 88, long after those crafts were launched and I feel similar. Maybe it’s pride in humanity and what we can accomplish or maybe it’s comfort in the knowledge that proof are existence is secure for billions of years to come.

Can you imagine having actually touched these probes that will be around forever ???

Cool

Perhaps one of the most significant things mankind has ever done. Truly an honor for him (and you) I'm sure.

Tell your dad thank you for building these spacecrafts.

arklat very cool :)

"Pale Blue Dot"...The great Carl Sagan would have been so proud of Voyagers 1 achievements.....the only man made object in interstellar space carrying the evidence of human existence long after this planet of ours ceases to exist...Thank you for this great video.

Night Owl ! You Romantic, you! Well said!

I once knew a guy that worked on some of the optics one on one of these, though he passed away over 20 years ago. I forget now if it was Voyager 1 or Voyager 2, I think it was Voyager 2.

Beautiful, just beautifully said

Never been convincingly discredited? Von Daniken is a laughing stock in the scientific community. If someone argued Jupiter is a blob of milk and coffee mixing. Would you waste your time correcting them?

Same Here Danny! 🇺🇸

It's either massive or we're incredibly tiny.

Yes yes yes!

Id go with you friend

trully epic

Now imagine being on the other side of the door and find something wander into our atmosphere that was sent by a distant civilisation hundreds of millions of years ago, a million light years away and which is most likely extinct by now. Can you imagine the scale of time and the cycle of life and death in the cosmos. Like tiny meteor showers with occassional blips of light - coming and going, entire civilisations and planets living and dying but only like a tiny beam in the otherwise lifeless dark universe. The expanse and subjective nature of time blows my mind.

Michael Kelleher She made a new video today

I lived in the UK for 15 years at various times from 1982 thru to 2003 (my wife being English) always missed looking up and not being able to see the southern cross in all it's glory. I watched both telecasts of "Stargazing Live" on the ABC with with Prof. Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro... Bloody brilliant..! My son who is 24 now but asked for a telescope for his 21st so we have had great fun together looking at the night sky with his 8" Dobsonian. Amazing what you can see out there with something so simple.

As an Australian, I am also in absolute awe of the United States for its space program, the thing the 20th and 21st centuries will be most remembered for in a thousand years.

Sun Tzu II - Perfect!!

Terry Richardson It is sublime luck for us to be sharing this experience. What an amazing time for us to be here, living our lives on this incredible Blue Dot planet in the midst of the Milky Way! To be able to see what humans have accomplished during our infancy, is a remarkable gift. My birthday is on the 24th of this month, September. At age 9 I knew I loved the sky, astronomy, science fiction, and NASA, not to mention John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inspiring speech that helped humans reach our Moon. I make it to age 66 and hope for a few more, as my hunger for knowledge has not been sated.

After our short stay on this tiny speck in the universe, We may be able to follow our dreams and adventures through eternity. We will certainly see...

@ Terry Richardson @ Steven DiBernardo Like I replied to another post to this video, I understand feeling small, but not insignificant. Really, when you think of the entire scope of scientific discovery, we humans have discerned an incredible amount and the fact that these two spectacularly successful probes, products of our quest for knowledge and inventiveness will have an insignificant but lasting impact on the galaxy uplifts my spirit. We can be amazing if we try to be. I totally agree Steve, that the fact that we have lived through or been informed directly from this preliminary reconnaissance of our home solar system (starting with the Sputnik and Explorer probes, Apollo, the Mariners, Viking, this grand tour of Voyager, Spirit and Opportunity, Galileo, Cassini, Curiosity, ending with the Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres and New Horizons mission to Pluto) makes this a uniquely amazing time to have been alive on this planet ! Unless civilization collapses entirely, there will not be another time when we have explored for the first time, this much of our planetary neigborhood. And even if that does happen... there are these intrepid probes and the Pioneers and New Horizons, sailing for practically eternity, testaments to human achievement.

Big Respect! Thank you!

I can't conceive of a billion years but when I started work at 4am I often 'met' the only other cars on the road at intersections. There is something about travels that causes them to meet. If a meeting is possible I think it will happen.

Were it not for the declining RTG's the antennas at Goldstone, Madrid and Canberra could maintain communications with the Voyagers for another century or more. The reason why they will not be functioning for much longer is not just the decay of the Plutonium 238 into Thorium 234, with a half-life of 87.7 years. In less than a thousand years, the Plutonium would be completely decayed. The thermocouples that convert the heat of radioactive decay into direct electrical current are also degrading from the strong alpha emissions from the fuel, which is in oxide form converted into a ceramic to guard against release of plutonium in the event of an accident during launch. It is not in the form of a metal.

I find it so annoying that people moan about the cost of space exploration, but they willingly accept the cost of bombs, missiles and bullets.

Would be an interesting find, no doubt. But they would be *very* difficult to find, being so small. Perhaps the only way to track them hundreds of years from now would be by the decaying Plutonium.

Or they may be the last remaining evidence we ever existed.

Let us hope!

@@nmccw3245 thats pretty deep when you think about it

That's highly unlikely. The last few hundred (hundred!) years of incredible progress are an exception, as far as our history is concerned. Moreover, our technology is up against theorietical limits pretty much everywhere you look. I suspect we are going to face stagnation in the next few hundred years, partly caused by our own influence on our environment.

Really bro really I had tears in my eyes....

That's kinda depressing.

Me too