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Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space
letxa2000 writes "CNN is reporting that Voyager 1, now some 8.4 billion miles (90 AUs) from the sun, has left the solar system and entered interstellar space by reaching the heliopause. However, whether the probe has reached the heliopause or is just coming close is the subject of two papers to be published in Thursday's Nature Magazine. The probe supposedly has enough nuclear fuel to last until 2020. Will it be able to find anything interesting outside the solar system in the next 17 years?"
Do you guys have any idea how much RAM had to be added to the Matrix to extend the simulation out that far?!
Kevin Fox
They've gone to plaid.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
...it isn't going to reach the delta quadrant anytime soon?
Aliens too stupid to wipe off some space dirt to realize the dang thing isn't named VEEEGERRRR!
What is music when you despise all sound?
Can only hope some day we catch up to Voyager. Either with a probe that could pass it up, or NCC-1701 :-)
More likely it'll be blown to smithereens by Klingons.
Voyager 1 has reached heliopause and is now experiencing hot flashes and irritability. Hormone replacement therapy has proven innefective thus far.
Is it the same sound as one hand clapping?
I have a Cig, but do you have a light?
Voyager will find the long lost Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Rumsfeld will use this as an excuse to overhaul the space program! We all know the Iraqis have had a secret space program since 1950.
says: "Doh, Stupid comet!"
20 years from now, against all odds, the comet bashed ever so slightly by our irresponsibly launched space probe slams into Yellowstone super volcano.
That little probe has to be stopped before it bumps into something! Send someone out to get it before it's too late!
This is my sig.
Yes, the US government has a secret message it uses to identify this point:
.. Can you hear me now?"
"Can you hear me now?
Scientists have long theorized that a shock wave exists where the hot solar wind bumps up against the thin gas of the interstellar medium.
Picard: To boldy go where no ma-, hang on Number 1, speed bump!
Will: All hands embrace for impact...
THUMP!
Picard: Data, inform engineering that we need better suspension on this thing...
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
don't you mean it will swallow up one of their war ships?
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
When you consider the galaxy is 100,000 light years across ...
How many elefants would that be?
They'll have to do it without Bones. He's dead, Jim!
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
First Broadcast: "My god, it's full of stars!"
Maybe now we'll find out how accurate that Starfield Simulation screensaver really is!
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Last time I checked the speed of sound in space was essentially zero...
Why?
...the right of the people to keep and arm bears shall not be infringed.
alien@mothership:~$ ping vger
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PING vger (1.253.123.0.175.36.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vger (1.253.123.0.175.36.9): icmp_seq=1 ttl=0 time=31492800000 ms
64 bytes from vger (1.253.123.0.175.36.9): icmp_seq=2 ttl=0 time=31492799880 ms
64 bytes from vger (1.253.123.0.175.36.9): icmp_seq=3 ttl=0 time=31492799680 ms
64 bytes from vger (1.253.123.0.175.36.9): icmp_seq=4 ttl=0 time=31492799680 ms
--- vger ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 31495800000ms
alien@mothership:~$ mail -s They're getting closer! phb@mothership.org
Cc:
Chief, they're closing on us!
alien@mothership:
Voyager crash lands on this deep and remote planet..as each of its systems start to shutdown in turn, its external microphones pick up the voice of Charleston Heston, screaming in the distance "Take your paws off me you damn dirty ape!"....
;-)
[muffled horse hooves pounding on the ground]
Voyager 1 signing off. Goodbye earth...
My theory: an alien astronaut has attached a jet to the spacecraft and is now stealing it for further study.
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
Or is towing it away for driving without a license.
I hope someone at least left the window rolled down for him.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
National Park Service Entrance Signs
ping -t voyager Duh!
There's no friction in space.
Oh, yeah? _You_ try sharing a battered smuggler ship with a flea-bitten wookie, a hillbilly brother/sister couple, an Alzheimer's patient with a light saber, and two gay robots.
Nothing strange about that small accelleration - space sucks...
Simple concept, drop a nuclear bomb behind a craft, and ride the shock wave forward. Needs a pushing plate, shock absorbers, etc of a good magnitude, but the system can and does work.
Great idea. We'll build it, you get in the ship, and then after we detonate the bomb we'll design an atomic spatula to remove you from the rear end of the space ship.
Without manipulation of gravity, the fastest humans can possibly accelerate is a few times the acceleration of Earth's gravity. And to get to decent speeds with that kind of acceleration takes a very long sustained force. You would need a giant spring lightyears long which could somehow magically not shred itself or melt under the kind of stress you're describing. You'd have better luck designing the spatula.
>When will we lose our connection (if we haven't already)?
Its good until 2005 when the FCC Broadcast Flag rule makes recieving the signal illegal without a DRM upgrade.