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Pfft, simple, it's obviously a conspiracy by aliens to get some folks thinking that spacecraft is voyager when it looks nothing like it when in fact it's a vessel carrying aliens coming to take over the planet.

 

But seriously, Is this a joke or something? Because it doesn't make, well, any sense to me.

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Looks like an image of Rosetta under assembly. I found an article containing the image, the GIADA is a dust analyzer instrument on the probe. 

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/04/09/giada-investigates-comets-fluffy-dust-grains/

As for the "Voyager" bit, it was probably found on some extremely misinformed conspiracy website that randomly linked to a "space probe" image that they probably Google'd and it happened to be a picture of Rosetta. Both Voyager probes are currently on an escape trajectory from the solar system, and will continue orbiting the galactic center until someone goes and gets them, which probably will never happen.

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Arugela

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"It is not quite in the shape it was when it left."

I called it voyager in the title previously.

Hint hint..

And, yes, it is a joke.(A star trek joke since nobody is going to get it.)

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Tex_NL

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11 hours ago, Arugela said:

I called it voyager in the title previously.

Hint hint..

And, yes, it is a joke.(A star trek joke since nobody is going to get it.)

OK, in Star Trek: The motion picture Voyager 6 returns to earth under the name V-ger.

First of all Voyager 6 is purely fictional. There has never been any Voyager 6 beyond that movie.
And secondly Voyager is not Rosetta. Not by a long shot. There are a few decades between them, they are of completely different design and have a totally different mission.

What you're doing has less to do with joking than it has with trolling.

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Arugela

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It's a site joke. It's a cube like the borg and the voyager returning was the start of the borg. It's not a complicated joke. Don't get mad at me you didn't get it...

I said it was a different shape than when it started. This is a reference to both the shape of the borg and the face it changed shape and might not be in the condition it originally was like though of the voyager... It was a light joke I thought would be hard to miss on a forum like this.

I know they are different satellites. That is irrelevant.

You people need to learn to lighten up a bit. You guys blame everyone for everything you can't do. Get over yourselves! I thought somebody might enjoy the humor.... I guess I'll let everyone entertain themselves since people can't even enjoy something this simple.

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4 hours ago, Arugela said:

It's a site joke. It's a cube like the borg and the voyager returning was the start of the borg. It's not a complicated joke. Don't get mad at me you didn't get it...

I said it was a different shape than when it started. This is a reference to both the shape of the borg and the face it changed shape and might not be in the condition it originally was like though of the voyager... It was a light joke I thought would be hard to miss on a forum like this.

I know they are different satellites. That is irrelevant.

You people need to learn to lighten up a bit. You guys blame everyone for everything you can't do. Get over yourselves! I thought somebody might enjoy the humor.... I guess I'll let everyone entertain themselves since people can't even enjoy something this simple.

I didn't even get it. Maybe it's because I haven't really watched much Star Trek. I'm a heretic, I already know this.

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24 minutes ago, legoclone09 said:

I didn't even get it. Maybe it's because I haven't really watched much Star Trek. I'm a heretic, I already know this.

Don't worry being a Trek heretic. I've seen absolutely every Trek episode and movie (everything except the fan made 'crap') and I still don't get the 'joke'.

And let me tell you there is no relation between the Borg and V-ger at all. Yes, I've heard/read those speculations too but it's nothing but fan lore. The Borg were not known at the time of The Motion Picture and V-Ger was never mentioned since. Within official lore there is no link.

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Just now, Tex_NL said:

Don't worry being a Trek heretic. I've seen absolutely every Trek episode and movie (everything except the fan made 'crap') and I still don't get the 'joke'.

And let me tell you there is no relation between the Borg and V-ger at all. Yes, I've heard/read those speculations too but it's nothing but fan lore. The Borg were not known at the time of The Motion Picture and V-Ger was never mentioned since. Within official lore there is no link.

Ok, thanks.

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Arugela

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Isn't the v'ger shape also the same as the borg boss in STO?(The two big long ones before the queen solo ship) Or like a combo of v'ger and those beings that built the sphere around the sun in STO?

I thought it was already completely established somewhere that it was part of the origin of the Borg..

Edit: I just read some stuff about speculation of the possibility of a wormhole taking it to the machine planet and people arguing time is off. Just to add, if you follow the Farscape logic(just to add it) the wormhole could travel it through time! 8) Not sure if time travel is normal in ST wormholes though. And before anyone invokes the other argument about machine and biology being different(Which I was also just reading) and it not making sense. For anyone who understands anything biology is machinery. They are just different examples of it. Literally!!! Nothing but the use of different materials. All things physical are examples of mechanics. All thing that exist have logical functions hence they are mechanical. That is the true definition. The rest are weird lamen usages. They are not realistic. >< and as currently exist in our real known world all biological examples are infinitely better uses of materials in every way. they are way more complex than our current understanding of what is refereed to as technology by normal people. Mostly using metals or similarly recognizable materials in a limited fashion. You can also likewise build older fashioned primitive buildings with better qualities than modern buildings. That is always done via a much better use of the material. AKA letting it do the work for you. Those would be biological things like trees and plants combined with other materials. Design is more complicated than most people think. Material knowledge is the tougher thing to get down most of the time. Honestly not sure why a non biological entity like vger would be more powerful with non biological components. Let alone what the proper meaning of biological is. It's not being used right more than likely.

STO Borg boss ships:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c9/f4/34/c9f4347e5e5324c2701261915a6cc822.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Hc6jDf40BM/maxresdefault.jpg

Pics of V'ger?:

http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/studio/2011/02/6782-22-4213894.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XkXgnFT.jpg

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STO isn't cannon though, I don't think. I think they just took a fan theory and ran with it for their own purposes.

 

Anywho, I get the joke, but you have to understand your audience. If you had posted this on a Star Trek forum, I might have gotten the joke on my own (but since I don't consider that canon, I might not have thought of that), but the Kerbal forums are a lot more focused on actual space technology, so in the context of this forum, it makes perfect sense that the first thing everyone here is going to think is "Both voyager probes are on escape trajectories and that's not a picture of them, what is this guy talking about?". I mean, I appreciate the effort to make us laugh, but I hope you can understand why no one here was in the right frame of mind to get your joke.

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