Kurt
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Propellors? 
Thought the radioactive batteries were for the instruments and other on board equipment
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Jamie Walby
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David Bowie Nipple Antennae intercepted its transmission.
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oceansoul
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Originally posted by Nath
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11988466
Here's hoping it doesn't encounter a strange cloud and with it's 'o' 'y' and 'a' obscured by grot/soot/damage/etc, or we could be in for a load of trouble in a few years time. 
Shit film though 
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sand-eel
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WTF it has solar panels does it not?
Also no it never had fuel, it was fired into space in the wrong direction actually, but using other planets gravitational pull to make it change direction and at the same time make it faster, obviously some crazy calculations were done to fire it in the right direction in the first place.
Still though 33 years later and at 25000 miles an hour and it still hasn't left the solar system 
People NEED to invent some way to go faster.
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John
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Doesn't have solar panels, flight isn't powered, it's just continuing to travel at the speed it got from it's last gravitational slingshot.
The radioactive generators on board power the instruments.
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sand-eel
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Interesting, never heard of radioactive generators, so surely there will be less radiation the further away it gets from a star?
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John
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No, there will be less radiation and hence power from the fuel source as time goes on so power will drop.
It's got a nuclear fuel source, it doesn't get radiation from stars.
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Joe
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Can't even comprehend 10.8 billion miles, pretty incredible stuff. Thought only a VAG could do that sort of mileage.
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AndyKent
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The speed of the thing is incredible. It travels further in one second than a lot of people cover every day.
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Jambo
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Originally posted by Ojc
I bet Pug Nut would buy it if it was for sale though TBH
 you beat me to it
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VegasPhil
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There's no resistance in space to slow it down is there? So it will just keep going at whatever speed it was launched at.
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Steve
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/cev.html
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sand-eel
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There's no resistance in space to slow it down is there? So it will just keep going at whatever speed it was launched at.
It will keep going at the same speed forever as long as there is nothing there, but there is gravity from planets etc which as I said can accelerate it and change its direction.
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sand-eel
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Originally posted by John
It's got a nuclear fuel source
If that was said at the start things would have been simpler
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Ojc
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When do we get M41A Pulse Rifles though?
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