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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.
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!
Sadly that message was: "A/S/L/Pic"
If you think
VGER called... ...and he wants to speak to the creator.
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.
Actually, it was "My name is V'ger".
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
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
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?"