Voyagers Legacy in Pictures

tanveer1979 writes "Space.com has an interesting photo feature from the voyager craft. For the uninformed voyager is the most distant man made object. For the first time we are recieving photos of distant parts of the solar system. Currently voyager is about 12 light hours away. Wonder how far is that? Well Sun is 8 light minutes away from Earth. In case you are wondering what is this all about, check out the current location of voyager. The voyager spacecraft are about to cross heliopause, which is the limit of the rule of the sun, after which inter steller winds take over, and for the first time scientists can get the feel of what lies outside the solar system."

Comments

I don't mean to be pessimistic...

[guttentag]

but you do realize that someday Voyager is going to crash into a planet and obliterate an entire city of extraterrestrials.

Years later we will cheer and gawk as NASA or the U.S. Air Force reports a fleet of unidentified space ships entering the atmosphere... until they pull out their laser blasters and photon torpedoes and come looking for revenge.

Slashdotted....

[robpoe]

We slashdotted NASA. OMG. I keep getting permission denied. Then a reload SLOWLY brings up the site.

"ISS to Houston, come in please."

"Houston, go ahead"

"Will you fix the toilet up here? It's not flushing and theres shit all over the place."

"ISS, we're trying, but 200,000 bloody people are trying to look @ pictures of Uranus right now. Will advise."