On 17 April 2026, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent commands to switch off the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment aboard Voyager 1. The instrument had been operating, almost without interruption, since the spacecraft left Cape Canaveral in September 1977. The shutdown was not a fault. It was the latest in a […]
In the scientific fiction genre, everything is scientifically possible. That’s the entire premise. Time tells us what they get right and what becomes fantasy.
NASA has a neat little video showing the path taken by Voyager 1: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4139
Very interesting. So they both manouvred (slingshot) using planets’ gravity wells? Not everything in SciFi is fiction I guess.
And V1 has traveled further from our solar system than the solar system’s diameter. Wow.
Extremely high bitrate on the video due to starry background, btw. My old lappy got wheezy.
Yes, and there was a 175 year window for the planets to be lined up like that.
You mean the planets just sat there for 175 years? Wow, I really learned something new today.
Windows to use all the gas giants for gravity slingshots in quick succession only occur every 175 years. Is that better?
Yes
In the scientific fiction genre, everything is scientifically possible. That’s the entire premise. Time tells us what they get right and what becomes fantasy.
Nothing in Star Wars is scientifically possible or ever will be.
Star wars is barely science fiction. It’s basically fantasy with a bit of tech.
It’s absolutely fantasy. No debate. So is Star Trek.
Actual science fiction is like the recent Hail Mary. Everything is based on liter real science, with maybe one “what if” kind of stretch.
Wut
Not everything, no.
That’s called fantasy.
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