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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."
I was googling voyager and vger and discovered that there was a video game, the premise of which was that vger created the Borg. Barf!
When TOS was canceled it was a major tragedy in my pathetic little adolescent life. But ever since it came back I've been dreading every encounter with it. ST has become this big stinking magnet for formulaic hack writing and pretentious dweeb storytelling. Worse, it's surviving every attempt to put it out of our misery. It's the Franchise That Would Not Die! It's a culture eating zombie! Somebody save us!
"Europeans in general don't understand this"
"In most of Europe you can be to another country in an hour or two."
"is like wanting to travel from Moscow to London"
Ehmm, and Americans in general don't understand that Moscow is in Europe...