Random You tube science silly-ness

Title: 3 MINUTES AGO: Voyager 1 Just Made A Terrifying Discovery Turned Back To Earth

  Vger 1 is so far away I can't comprehend how far away it is, but I do know that a signal from Vger 1 will take longer than 3 minutes to get here.

Google says that Vger 1 is over 20 light hours away.  I still don't understand how far that really is.

And then the second part.  Turned back to Earth.  Vger decided to do this on it's own?  And using what fuel?  

Maybe I should listen to the video before I science bash.    I don't think I can.  But here is a link if anyone else wants to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgVJxM-pTcQ

YouTube is chock-full of this grade of clickbait garbage these days. There are whole genres of them, two prominent ones are "LOOK at what crazy-ass sci-fi technology Elon revealed today!" and "AMAZING new technology is an EV Killer!(tm)"

All the monetary incentives are only to drive user clicks and view times. Quality and accuracy of content makes no real difference whatsoever.  This is the cancer of the modern attention economy.

In reply to Noddaz :

Google says that Vger 1 is over 20 light hours away.  I still don't understand how far that really is.

The Moon is I think 3 (1.2) light seconds away. The Sun is 8 light minutes away. Alpha Centauri is 4 light years away...

My 2007 SAAB wagon just clicked over one light second on the odometer.  186000 miles.  I think Voyager might even be out  of warranty range.  Despite what all those robo-dialed telemarketing calls may be trying to convince NASA of otherwise...

A small, small part of me WANTS to click those bullE36 M3 bait videos. But then, in third person, I smack myself in the head, and in my best Cobra Commander voice scream, "YOU FOOL!"

Between an FC, FE, & FB (in that order) I've been happily propelled 2.73 light seconds under rotary power (507,000 miles) and yes, the absence of an FD hasn't escaped my attention so there's no need to mention it; really.  

In reply to RX Reven' :

There appears to be a black hole in the Mazda space time continuum.

Appleseed said:

A small, small part of me WANTS to click those bullE36 M3 bait videos. But then, in third person, I smack myself in the head, and in my best Cobra Commander voice scream, "YOU FOOL!"

In my head; I go with