I believe they do use uranium! I'm not an expert though!

from Wikipedia:

Voyager 1 has three large radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Each RTG contains 24 pressed plutonium-238 oxide spheres. The heat from the spheres generated about 157 watts of electric power at the launch, with the remainder being dissipated as waste heat. Hence there was a total of about 470 watts of electric power provided by the three RTGs.
The power output of the RTGs does decline over time, but the RTGs of Voyager 1 will continue to support some of its operations through about 2025.

70,000 years from now when this crash lands on another planet, the natives are going to curse us.

Can't be solar powered. The sun is the size of pinhead from that distance...

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2...lanets1024.jpg

This ****ing thing was launched in 1977, is now 11 BILLION MILES FROM Earth and still communicating yet I still lose cell phone service 1/2 mile from my house in wide open space between 2 towers?

You just need to add some U 238 to your phone...

The sun looks just as small from your anus as it does from Pluto:shrug:

I don't believe this is an accurate depiction... Frankly, I suspect it may be "Photo-shopped"

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2...izediagram.png


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...ok-from-pluto/

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I can't even get service downtown on mine.

If I worked on one of those things it would've been very difficult to resist putting a hair in it somewhere, just to get my DNA out there for eternity.

Of course, there's always the risk of then having the aliens clone it and being faced with an invading army of rain man clones in the future, but by then I'm sure I'd be dead and wouldn't have to face it.

I wonder what the odds of another planet's Voyager type craft from another solar system are of running smack into ours and neither of us is the wiser.

It will return...along with many a mock draft thread.

It probably depends on how big the other Voyager is. If it's smaller than ours, the odds are low. But if it's, like 50 feet long or something, a collision is pretty much inevitable, I think.