{"id":1873,"date":"2010-05-15T07:42:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:02:08","slug":"alien-blather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/05\/alien-blather.html","title":{"rendered":"Alien Blather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomyonline.org\/aoblog\/images\/Voyager2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"VGer\" src=\"http:\/\/astronomyonline.org\/aoblog\/images\/Voyager2.jpg\" alt=\"VGer\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Voyager 2 was launched from Earth in 1977 along with its sister probe Voyager 1.\u00a0 Together they explored the farthest reaches of our solar system.\u00a0 The probes exceeded everyone&#8217;s expectations by continuing to send back useful data for 3 decades.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a moment.\u00a0 This is a vintage computer that&#8217;s been running for 33 years in the hostile environment of deep space.\u00a0 What device or machine do you have that&#8217;s run for that long without any maintenance?<\/p>\n<p>In that light, no one was too surprised when Voyager 2 recently started spitting gibberish back to NASA.\u00a0 For unknown reasons, the data stream is corrupted and so far undecodable by scientists here on Earth.\u00a0 They are still working to find a solution to the problem, but the prospects are not good.<\/p>\n<p>Enter alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf, author of \u2018UFOs \u2013 They Are Still Flying\u2019 and apparently a Star Trek The Motion Picture fan (there had to be one somewhere), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bild.de\/BILD\/news\/bild-english\/world-news\/2010\/05\/11\/distant-probe-secret-signals\/has-voyager-2-spacecraft-hijacked-by-aliens.html\">who is convinced<\/a> that this is not a technical glitch.\u00a0 Rather, he believes aliens have captured and reprogrammed the probe and are using it to send a coded message to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, and the flat tire he had the other day was not the result of a nail that had fallen off a truck he was following, but was the work of Ninjas sent to prevent him getting to the market for fresh milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyager 2 was launched from Earth in 1977 along with its sister probe Voyager 1.\u00a0 Together they explored the farthest<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/05\/alien-blather.html\" title=\"Read Alien Blather\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-madscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}