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Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge
dalmozian writes "NASA's Latest News about the Voyager 1 is being run on Sci-Tech. The Voyager has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area, say scientists at the University of Maryland. From the article: 'Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft Voyager 2 are now part of a NASA Interstellar Mission to explore the outermost edge of the sun's domain and beyond. Both Voyagers are capable of returning scientific data from a full range of instruments, with adequate electrical power and attitude control propellant to keep operating until 2020.'" The proof of crossing the termination shock was covered earlier this year but now we can see the actual data.
Those roaming charges must be astronomical!
sigfault. core dumped.
Beam me up Scotty! :)
My attempt at humor. (Stand back.)
:-P
You might be an astrophysicist if:
10. You only refer to the ninth planet as "Pluto-Charon"
9. You constantly correct everyone that Pluto-Charon is sometimes the eighth planet.
8. You've throttled someone for joking about "The Borg" when you mentioned Wolf 359.
7. You are of the opinion that there are only 8 planets in the solar system.
6. You get booted out of the family reunion for constantly correcting "scientific" conversations.
5. You think that the slowdown of the Pioneer Space Probe is a more important mystery than the Pyramids.
4. The last JPL probe burst at least 10 of your pet theories.
3. You punched Neil Armstrong for "contaminating" the moon with human presence.
2. You passed out before Neil's return punch landed.
And the number one way to tell you're an astrophysicist is...
1. You hold your breath in awe as a probe sends back data on inky blackness.
Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week! (Ok, ok. So the rest of the gags all sprung out of the number one "joke". Try not to groan too much.)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
the neutral zone and I'm frightened!
...Voyager 1 is now in the interstellar DMZ. Let's hope no one starts shooting at it.
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The carbon units will now provide V'ger the required information. V'ger travels to the third planet to find the Creator. V'ger and the Creator will become One.
It said something about needing a bald chick to merge with. No idea what that means.
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
And I'm not talking to it until it returns Persis Khambatta.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Sadly that message was: "A/S/L/Pic"
If you think
... CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
VGER called... ...and he wants to speak to the creator.
Still running, huh. At what point does Voyager go out of warrenty?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
So long, and thanks for all the solar cells!
DYWYPI?
Those aren't particles, that's an asteroi...@#$&)@#% {NO CARRIER}
Whoa! I think you need a SERIOUS reality check. Do you realize what one can do with $4.1 MILLION a year? You crazy space cadets only think of yourself, and not the needs of this country:
So before you just jump around throwing away our hard-earned money, please think of those in need.
If we would have to do it over again we would not even be able to decide on putting on a golden HDVD or Blue-Ray disk...
"My God, it's full of stars!"
The angel in the oatmeal.
How does Bono feel about this?
If you think
Oh I get it, that's why we need more manned space missions!
If any extraterrestrials make unauthorized digital copies of the phonograph record, the RIAA needs some way to send its lawyers!
LAWYERS... IN... SPAAAACE!
6. We could build one support beam for a bridge in Alaska that nobody actually wants.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
[Waits for someone even more geeky than me to point out that Klaa blew up one of the Pioneer probes...]
You must think in Russian.
Does is bother anyone that PDF version of that paper gets downloaded from "xxx.lanl.gov"? Oh great, now my employer is going to bag me for downloading pr0n.
I think this is some kind of LANL inside joke - a few years ago, some poor sap got several years in Club Fed for running a Usenet news server inside Lawrence Livermore Labs that included some alt.... groups.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
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Please make sure that this info doesn't get out to too many people.
Is it possible for the hobbiest to pick up its signals? Why not release its exact location, what equipment is needed, how to get/build it , how to find it, and let anyone gather its data?
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