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The Great Journey of Voyagers 1 and 2!
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but what do we do after we reach that thousandth mile? We answer this question today as we explore the fantastic and one of a kind journey of Voyagers 1 and 2! Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? In the Greek epic the Odyssey, the lead character Odysseus took 10 gruesome years to finally make it home to Ithaca. And to make that more severe, he even had to endure a few more challenges once he and his crew got home. But we guarantee you, that story will be trumped by the stars of our show today: The Voyager mission probes. Ever since their launch in 1977, the two spacecraft have accomplished an amazing job of taking pictures of several points of interest in the Solar System, especially of the gas giants. And now, with all the strength and capability that these two bad boys have left, they continue their journey where no spacecraft have ever gone before: towards interstellar space. And just like all senior employees in a company, we honor these two outstanding testaments to human ingenuity by highlighting the greatest moments of their career. To adapt to the current trend in YouTube, why don’t we do it in a countdown fashion too? I don’t know about you, but that sounds like an amazing idea! So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, the top five biggest accomplishments of the Voyager mission! Number 5: The Farthest Selfie of All of Humanity In the current age, everybody is getting crazy about taking selfies. Everyone tries to get creative by doing different kinds of poses, adding a lot of color and edits to the pictures, adding filters, just to make ourselves look at the very least presentable, and get approval from our social media friends through likes and hearts. No matter how beautiful our selfies get, I’m willing to bet that we could beat that with the picture that includes you, us and the rest of humanity. We know what you’re thinking: “I’ve never even met you, how can we have already had a selfie?” How about I let you find out yourself with a little mental jog? Say I have a lot of friends with me, like around 10. If we want to take a selfie with all of us, we have to take the camera phone farther so that the lens could capture all of us, right? Well, using that logic, we can capture all of humanity in one picture if we move our camera far enough. And that’s what exactly we have accomplished with Voyager 1 on Valentine’s Day in 1990. As the probe accomplishes its mission on Saturn -- which of course we will talk about more in gruesome detail later, don’t worry -- NASA sent a command to flip over the camera towards the side where the Earth is, and take the glorious photograph. Now, I know you may think “Aren’t you cheating? Yeah, technically everyone is in that photograph but it’s just a dot. Why is it so meaningful?” If you haven’t heard yet, Carl Sagan already answered that question in an astonishingly eloquent statement. One excerpt from that statement goes: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” I know you think that it’s not even an HD picture of Earth. It’s not even the first photo of the Blue Planet from space. Heck, you can’t even make out where Earth is in the Pale Blue Dot photo. But more than its features, what makes it extremely special, and worthy of counting as an accomplishment for our retiring Voyager 1, is the message it carries: we are nothing but a spec in this vast universe. Let the gravity of how profound that knowledge is slowly sink in. Ain’t all of that grand? Number 4: Carrying Mankind’s “Hello!” to the Universe Being millennials, I think a fact we can all agree with is how difficult introductions are, right? I mean, how do you even pick the proper words to say? How can people just make it seem so simple? But okay, say we’re completely okay about all of that introduction thing, what do we say first usually? #InsaneCuriosity #Voyager2 #Voyager1
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