Posted Jul 2, 2009 20:14 UTC (Thu) by SimonKagstrom (subscriber, #49801)
In reply to: In brief by jamesh
Parent article: In brief
I believe it's from Arthur C. Clarkes book "2010". The voyager probe is picked up by aliens, but sadly in a bad state. Some of the characters on the name plate has been wiped away, thus "vger".
Or maybe I remember something completely different :-)