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Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented"

Posted by kdawson on from the folded-spindled-mutilated dept.

Selikoff writes "NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is 'dented' by the local interstellar magnetic field, space experts said on Monday. The data were gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey when it crossed into a region called the 'termination shock.' The data showed that the southern hemisphere of the solar system's heliosphere is being pushed in. Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter this region of the solar system, behind Voyager 1, which reached the northern region of the heliosheath in December 2004."

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  1. Obviously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, the reason the solar system is dented is because God dropped it.

  2. Re:I, for one... by Eternauta3k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, voyager 1 and 2 stopped working after a few months, current "findings" are just invented by NASA.

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  3. Re:human defined? by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    McDonalds?

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    which is totally what she said
  4. Re:Halp! by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up is the shortest distance out of your head. In most cases, its best if "up" is not in the same direction as the dominant gravity source.

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  5. Re:I don't get it by hey! · · Score: 4, Funny

    My hat is off to you. You, sir, are a master of irony.

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