Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes

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Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 13, 2004 @12:35AM from the launched-into-deepest-space dept.

JabbaTheFart writes "The Guardian is writing that something strange is tugging at America's oldest spacecraft. As the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes head towards distant stars, scientists have discovered that the craft - launched more than 30 years ago - appear to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back as they sweep out of the solar system. Some researchers say unseen 'dark matter' may permeate the universe and that this is affecting the Pioneers' passage. Others say flaws in our understanding of the laws of gravity best explain the crafts' wayward behaviour."

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Re:It's the Klingons! by Lesrahpem · 2004-09-13 00:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

William Shatner for President!
Holodeck Wall by PerlDudeXL · 2004-09-13 00:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

if you throw items of holodeck equipment within the the holodeck it will hit the holodeck wall.
Re:A bit of editing would have helped by QuickFox · 2004-09-13 00:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What? You expect a Slashdot editor to understand the difference between a noun and a verb?

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Re:It's the Klingons! by deadgoon42 · 2004-09-13 01:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Shatner was born in Canada so he can't be president of the US.

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Re:Title should be "Affected", not "Effected" by The_REAL_DZA · 2004-09-13 01:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Don't forget "bear" and "bare"! A semi-hilarious memo went around our site about a year ago regarding the parking lot repaving and the encouragement to "bare with us" through the inconvenience. Well, almost everyone thought it was hilarious...

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Re:*mumbles* by caino59 · 2004-09-13 01:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

for god sakes - give this man mod points, i had to clean my screen, for i spat coffee all over it
Re:explanation??? by operagost · 2004-09-13 01:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I'm a Christian, yet I'll admit I can't explain everything. For example, I can't explain why you put apostrophes in all your plurals.
I also have trouble harmonizing the two different statements you made about "religions":
The faithful make up stories to explain things ("And we are not willing to make up stories to explain the unexplainable").
The faithful don't attempt to explain things ("We don't admit defeat and say "oh well, must be gods way").

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Re:explanation??? by syrinx · 2004-09-13 01:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Scientist's and Athiest's are the only ones will to admit that thay can't ALWAYS explain EVERYTHING.

Atheists have just as much faith as theists... maybe you mean agnostics?

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Re:Mod parent up by Glen+Ponda · 2004-09-13 03:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

it's like saying "Austria" when you mean "Australia".

Let me guess, born in the US and lived there your whole life?