Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge

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Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 26, 2005 @08:11AM from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

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.

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first message received from beyond... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 08:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first post!
It's communicating by SMS by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 08:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And the message it sent is, "Need left lung"
1. Re:It's communicating by SMS by doxology · 2005-09-26 08:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  More like "n33d lft 1ung"
  
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2. Re:It's communicating by SMS by cozzano · 2005-09-26 08:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Miss read that as "I need a hug"
And its return by crkpot · 2005-09-26 08:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Planet of the Apes anyone?!?!
WWF? by Madd+Scientist · 2005-09-26 08:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

the message: i will spear you at wrestlemania.
1. Re:WWF? by MyLongNickName · 2005-09-26 14:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  When did Edge join the World Wildlife Fund?
  
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About TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 08:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Why am I forced to read it in one big 825-pixel-wide column?
Re:Who cares.. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 08:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

About some hunk of junk float aimlessly in outer space. Can't we talk about something more down to eart. Come on!
How about we talk about your atrocious grammar? Is that down to Earth enough for you?
Re:Why are they cancelling funding...? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-26 08:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I say this as a Republican, funding is being cut because a Democrat started the whole space movement. I happen to disagree with Bush on this, but his goal has been to cut funding to everything a Democrat ever started, haven't you noticed this? the COPS program which Clinton initiated putting extra cops on the street to make us safer? cut.

This is one of the main reasons why I didn't vote in 2004, the man is not governing the country effectively, he's simply on one huge "revenge" binge and he's throwing out the good programs with the bad.
SAy... by mayhemt · 2005-09-26 09:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hi to Zaphod .. ooh tell Marvin that his brain is being GPLed on earth i.e. Alpha3ZoneDelta
...and the message was... by NadaTech · 2005-09-26 11:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"It's cold out here!" But seriopusly, if they can make a spacecraft go billions of miles for several decades, why do our cars run on such polluting, inefficient gasoline? We need to start putting pressure on these oppressive oil cartels to release the patents on this fuel saving technology thhey have, and regardless of what snopes says, I believe it truely exists.