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Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space

Posted by timothy on from the great-non-disturbance-in-the-force dept.

MatthewVD writes "Some time in the next decade, the Voyager probes will run out of juice and finally go silent after almost a half century of exploration. John Rennie writes that the lack of any meaningful effort to follow up with a mission to interstellar space shows the "fragile, inconsistent state of space exploration." It's particularly frustrating since the Voyagers have tantalized astronomers with a glimpse into about how the sun's magnetic field protects us from (or exposes us to) cosmic rays. Have we gone as far as we're willing to go in space?"

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  1. Re:We sure don't make stuffs like they used to by freedom_india · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fragile, inconsistent state of Politicians who seek to reinstate God as Creator and consider any Science as heresy is the REAL cause of lack of space exploration. Someone should pull a Valerie Plame on every fundamentalist politician who seeks to replace Science with Religion. His sex tapes should be published on the internet and would be better if it were Gay.

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  2. Re:No by JWSmythe · · Score: 1, Troll

    I get a different result with telnet. Maybe it was simplified for people who use wget. At least they're keeping up with the server.

    $ telnet havewegoneasfaraswerewillingtogoinspace.com 80
    Trying 108.33.70.68...
    Connected to havewegoneasfaraswerewillingtogoinspace.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET ? HTTP/1.0
     
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:44:49 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.22
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
     
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Earth Interstellar Flight Project</title>
      </head>
      <body>
      No further events planned. Project terminated. Funding diverted to Department of Defense. 20/Aug/1977
      </body>
    </html>
    Connection closed by foreign host.

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