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?"

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Well Jack, as Mohemmad once said

[typical geek]

when his disciples were anointing his turban with expensive olive oil and they wondered why they shouldn't spend that money on the poor, instead of turban oil, "the poor will always be with us."

I'm sure if you met most of those hungry, homeless sorts, you'd find them to be mentally ill people who refuse to take their medidine. Now, 30 years ago, they could be forced to take their medicine, but since those touchy feely sorts got into power, they said it's against human rights to force them to take medicine. So now, they prefer to remain undrugged and homeless. Their choice.

As far as YMCA dwellers, they're all gay, every one, I think the Village People proved that.

I think we need to dump more and more money into the space program, so we can make Mars colonies and only allows brainy guys and lots of girls with big tits and nice asses to emigrate, and leave the nutsos and homos back on Earth. Are you in?

The real question in all this...

[DJ Spencer]

No, the real questions is... When the new-clear power supply runs out, does it switch from suck to blow??