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Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "A computer model simulation developed at UC Riverside has predicted that in late 2007 to early 2008, the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the termination shock, the spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. At the termination shock, located at 7-8.5 billion miles from the sun, the solar wind is decelerated to less than the speed of sound. The boundary of the termination shock is not fixed, however, but wobbly, fluctuating in both time and distance from the sun, depending on solar activity. Because of this fluctuation, the spacecraft is also predicted to cross the boundary again in middle 2008. The article abstract is available from The Astrophysical Journal."
India is also a shithole of a country to add a fact to your point. If you're residing in the US most people will refer to Georgia as a State because it is in our country. Just like when someone is in Europe, chances are Georgia will refer to the country. Get over yourself. Stop trying to act like Europe is the pinnacle of human evolution. You guys have your fair share of shit shoveling, rural shitholes, and political turmoil. Just because every state doesn't drastically vary in culture of has practiced genocide on one another doesn't mean it has no culture. You're just as ignorant as those Americans you are talking about. Why are you at a US university anyway since the US sucks so much? Why not go back to the backwash city you're from and attend university there. I am sure they are much more enlightened.
Fucking Europeans man...Sometimes I hope a 2nd bubonic plague hits.