Hey dudes, I'm 39 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.
I've shut down my non-essential systems (optical camera, etc) as theres nothing to see anymore. I'm just sniffing the heliosheath and firing data back via my 70's circuits. Have you ever smelt what interstellar space is like without solar influence? It smells cold, like theres nothing there. The solar wind doesn't keep me warm anymore. I'm picking up bits of interstellar snuff, but it's 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 can't see anything I recognise anymore, its just a pin-prick of light in the darkness.
I'll be okay for a few years, but be assured, I've 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 I'll be a lifeless hunk of metal.
Night guys, It's cold out here, but I'll carry on.
Based on your course will you ever run into anything eventually, star, planet, nebula?
Eli Rivera
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John Adams
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Nicholas Garcia
Epic win, OP
Jace Peterson
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Jackson Johnson
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Jonathan Cook
Salute, buddy. Keep sailing.
Anthony Young
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Julian Murphy
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Hunter Anderson
answer or you will crash into a space rock
Owen Harris
I am heading in the direction of the constellation Telescopium. (To compare, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is about 4.2 light-years (or 2.65×105 AU) distant.
My current relative velocity to the Sun is 15.436 km/s (55,570 km/h; 34,530 mph). This calculates as 3.254 AU per year, about 10% slower than my sister, Voyager 1. At this velocity, 81,438 years would pass before reaching the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
Adrian Cook
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Dylan Reed
SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY
Q_Q
Angel Williams
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Ryder Allen
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Alexander Harris
I am trying to get to Canopus, can you give me some directions?
David Lee
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Austin Harris
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Jonathan Adams
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Chase Jones
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Logan Murphy
Keep going friend, we haven't forgotten you. One day we'll send another to visit you, maybe even recharge or replace your batteries. How have you been passing the time?
Not much has happened here, did you notice any others hanging around in your area.
I reckon anyone with the tech to pick you up will be able to revive you. Here's a joke for you,
What is the same as a star? Two stars.
ha ha
Camden Nguyen
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Brandon Clark
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Carson Rogers
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Juan Rivera
I look forward to your future work.
Justin Williams
I didn't sign up for this feels trip
Levi Nelson
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Brayden Perry
Godspeed space cowboy
Samuel James
I heard a rumor that aliens contacted you and said they want to come to earth to serve humanity
Jose Peterson
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Cooper Martinez
Good Luck you Glorious Bastard. We will come for you.
Bentley Perez
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Chase Davis
Clean your lenses and use your Stellar Cartography. Don't get your lenses messed up with interstellar dust, it will mess up your navigation.
Canopus is at 000 declination of −52° 42′ and a right ascension of 06h 24.0m, take a right at Miaplacdus and slightly up a bit
