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The Deep Space Network

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Voyager 2

Dish 43 is so big because it needs to be extremely sensitive to the faint signals from deep space by deep space. And Voyager is outside our solar system. It is 20 billion kilometers away. Some round trip signals take one and a half days, that is for Voyager 2. The dish here is collecting all these very, very faint beeps at bits, or the other bits, or tens of bits per second. So it's whispering slowly at us, but it's telling us nuggets of gold is it doing so? We're going to find out!

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