{"id":2549,"date":"2010-06-06T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2010-06-05T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:34:51","slug":"voyager-2-spacecraft-hijacked-by-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/voyager-2-spacecraft-hijacked-by-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 2 spacecraft hijacked by Aliens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Has the Voyager 2 been hijacked by extra terrestrial lifeforms?<\/h4>\n<p class=\"note\">\nIt left Earth 33 years ago, now it&#8217;s claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can&#8217;t decode.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/voyager-spacecraft-aliens.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2681\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/voyager-2-spacecraft-hijacked-by-aliens\/attachment\/voyager-spacecraft-aliens\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/voyager-spacecraft-aliens.jpg?fit=316%2C237\" data-orig-size=\"316,237\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;SUPPLIED&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;04\/12\/2007 NEWS: 04\/12\/2007 NEWS: Voyager. Voyager mission space series. Pic. Supplied Pic. Supplied&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"voyager-spacecraft-aliens\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;04\/12\/2007 NEWS: 04\/12\/2007 NEWS: Voyager. Voyager mission space series. Pic. Supplied Pic. Supplied&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/voyager-spacecraft-aliens.jpg?fit=316%2C237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/voyager-spacecraft-aliens.jpg?resize=316%2C237\" alt=\"\" title=\"voyager-spacecraft-aliens\" width=\"316\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2681\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nNASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it.<\/p>\n<p>But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format!<\/p>\n<p>The best scientific minds have so far not been able to decipher the strange information \u2013 is it a secret message?<\/p>\n<p>Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:&#8221;It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe \u2013 thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nEngineers are working to solve the data transmissions from the Voyager 2 spacecraft near the edge of the solar system, NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said today.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data on its own health and status while they work on the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most distant human-made objects.<\/p>\n<p>Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space.<\/p>\n<p>Voyager 2 will follow after that.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"editNote\">\n&lt;&lt;Editors notE&gt;&gt;<br \/>\nI say: let&#8217;s wait it out n see what the source of these signals is. Might be just a malfunction, might be something else.<br \/>\nSecretly we all do hope it has been reprogrammed :D.<\/p>\n<p>&copy;copyright\/\/Source::<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/wacky\/have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft\/story-e6frev20-1225865566982\" title=\"have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2\" target=\"_blank\">dailytelegraph<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the Voyager 2 been hijacked by extra terrestrial lifeforms? It left Earth 33 years ago, now it&#8217;s claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can&#8217;t decode. NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it. But now the spacecraft is sending back what sounds like an answer: Signals in an unknown data format! 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