meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The John Batchelor Show

Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports on the extended life of Voyager 1. More.RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports on the extended life of Voyager 1. More.



Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You can't rely on blind faith to get the pregnancy support you deserve.

0:05.2

Ritual's essential prenatal multivitamin is the only leading prenatal backed by its own human clinical trial.

0:12.6

Essential prenatal is proven to deliver key nutrients, including folate, biotin, and vitamin D during pregnancy.

0:20.3

Get 25% off when you visit ritual.com slash clinical.

0:25.5

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

0:27.6

This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

0:30.5

This is John Batchel.

0:32.0

Bob Zimmerman, my colleague, brings great news.

0:35.1

Voyager 1 outside the solar system or near 2 is alive. Here I'd buried it

0:43.2

several times because after all these decades, it's wearing down in its battery life. However,

0:50.0

solar wouldn't do any good at that distance from a sunshine.

0:57.5

However, the engineers have worked a miracle.

0:58.9

It's still alive.

1:06.1

And it's headed towards what Bob celebrates is its 50th anniversary outside of planet Earth.

1:07.6

Viger 1.

1:10.6

You remember Viger, don't you, from the first Star Trek movie, where Viger comes back

1:12.4

as something of an opponent tearing up Enterprise until they bring it in and realize the word

1:19.5

O Y has been erased, has been smeared, it thinks its name is Viger. It's quite a spectacular movie.

1:27.8

But Viger is out there.

1:29.4

And here's Bob to describe how the engineers did this

1:32.3

and what they hoped to achieve.

1:34.7

More of this tonight.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.