The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years.

“We enlisted the help of the (Deep Space Network) and Radio Science groups to help to see if we could hear a signal from Voyager 2,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “This was successful in that we see the ‘heartbeat’ signal from the spacecraft. So, we know the spacecraft is alive and operating. This buoyed our spirits.”

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Harry Potter 8 : so it turns out Voldemort put horcruxes on space probes

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“History records a small previously unknown town and school outside London was decimated in 2053 when NASA space probe Voyager 2 inexorably changed course doing a U-turn beyond the Termination Shock of our Solar system and started accelerating quickly back toward Earth. At the time of impact Voyager 2 was traveling faster that 35,000 miles per hour.”

“While scientists continue to argue over what principle was at play here even calling into question a number of established cosmological models, witnesses say that 50 years prior a young man was seen pointing a stick at the sky and yelling ‘Accio Voyager 2!’. This has been dismissed as coincidence as the world still came to terms with the loss of so many lives. Prime Minister and our Dark Lord Voldemort, may he live forever, was unavailable for comment.”

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God I would love something like that in a movie.

Typical start where the villain exposits too much, hinting at the locations of 5 special items. The plan is obvious but the heroes spell it out anyway: they need to do collect items 1-5 to stop him.

Each item is increasing difficult with each one but the heroes persevere, just barely surviving 4.

They now need to find 5 but the clues don’t make sense and they are running out of time. The nerdy hero has a revelation. “…I think he means the ISS”

They get in touch with the nerdy hero’s old boss who just happens to work at NASA!

The engineer listens calmy and replies, “Yes, that does sound like a description of the ISS.”

The heroes plead, “We have to go NOW or the world will end!”

“Yeahhhh so…you can’t just launch a rocket. It’s raining in Cape Canaveral and no one is going to approve that. Hell, none of you have had any training so you’d probably pass out and die on the way. Sorry.”

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Psh, everyone knows its easier to train people to be astronauts than train astronauts to do other tasks. I saw a documentary about this in the Summer of '98.

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In the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfic (https://hpmor.com/) Voldemort puts a horcrux on Pioneer.

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Another HPMOR fan!

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Doh, I got them mixed up. I thought it was on the golden record on Voyager

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And Harry Potter trips over a magic macguffin in the street that let’s people named “Harry” teleport to the exact location of space probes. And also breathe in space for some reason.

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Accio Voyager!

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