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Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-you're-still-in-my-comfort-zone dept.

Phoghat writes "More than 30 years after they were launched, NASA's two Voyager probes have traveled to the edge of the solar system and are on the doorstep of interstellar space. Today, April 28, 2011, NASA held a live briefing to reflect on what the Voyager mission has accomplished — and to preview what lies ahead as the probes prepare to enter the realm of the Milky Way itself."

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  1. Re:Let me say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know, they weren't club-wielding savages in loincloths back then.The most important tools they had back then were:

    1) A university system that wasn't designed to maximize profit therefore bringing in anyone into EE. Only actual engineers made it back then. The engineer working on the other system wasn't a dumbass.

    2) Computers and software were simpler and easier to understand instead of the morass of chaotic, barely-functioning layers of unknown code we have today.

    3) They had SPICE back then!

    4) Plenty enough technology to do what was needed.

  2. Re:Let me say by md65536 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But the modern version would automatically update its Twitter account from space!

  3. Re:Let me say by Toam · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Just passing Uranus LOL"