Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Voyager 1 and 2 Detected Something Beyond the Edge of Our Solar System" video.

@MrHouserobot Drifting in space just like Voyager 1 and 2 will likely forever do.
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That was one of the original Star Trek movies. Star Trek Voyager is a TV show about a ship called Voyager.
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There is already an updated Voyager, it's called New Horizons and it's been on it's way to Pluto since 2006.
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@xxpatrick204xx You mean Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Nighy the Actor Guy doesn't do astronomy.
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Anyone with a basic grasp of maths or science would recognise what it was and I doubt a spaceship would ever be launched by any race without an engineer or scientist on board.
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@stagdragon3978 Don't worry about it, my sister bought one of those bad dragon dildos and the model number was something like DS-6 so we kept referring to it as the Quark-cock and other Trek-related nonsense even though the serial was three digits out from being in any way relevant or funny. Yeah, we're a pretty open family.
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They weren't designed to only last 5 years, it's just that is how long the mission was, after 5 years they were too far away from Jupiter to achieve more results so NASA gave the probes some new objectives on the way to Neptune as they started shutting things down to save power. No one at NASA ever said that these things would blow up on their fifth birthday and be gone forever. There is no wear and tear in space, only energy loss, you can send up a Honda Civic and then go retrieve it in 10,000 years and it will still be in immaculate working order (after a battery charge) because space is a vacuum where nothing gets dusty or rusts. Nothing magical or secretive, just physics.
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Yeah, I reckon the JWST will be useless swiss cheese inside five years, probably karma for NASA choosing not to rename it.
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Being so close to the Sun you would get far more power from solar than any RTG. These fellas only required an RTG because the Sun was going to be a small yellow dot by the time they reached their objective at Jupiter.
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@joeydepalmer4457 Anything orbiting another body has to move really fast or else they will just fall and crash into the planet/moon. After all an orbit is just a perpetual state of falling. This means that a satellite is only ever out of the reach of sunlight for maybe minutes or even hours before they are back in sunlight and batteries can cover them for those brief periods. A satellite taking pictures of say the moon's far side is in darkness to take pictures then back in the sunlight, then they are back in darkness for more pictures then back in sunlight again, repeat and repeat again as they fly around the moon.
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We launched New Horizons in 2006 to study Pluto, after it has done that it will likely be sent in the direction of one of the other dwarf planets at the edge of the solar system and then leave the solar system like the Voyagers did.
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It wasn't the intention, it was just inevitable. Once the probes had finished their mission they were not exactly going to grind to a halt and spend eternity sitting next to Jupiter were they? There is no friction in space so the probes were always going to leave the solar system eventually.
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