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New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space
sighted writes "Yesterday, someone tweeting for the Voyager 2 spacecraft posted: 'Interesting. Compare my data 4 high-energy nucleons w V1's That increase is attracting attention!' Today, NASA says that scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion — that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system. Project scientist Ed Stone said, 'The latest data indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing more quickly. It is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system's frontier.'"
... if we don't immediately find life I will consider the mission a failure, begin binge drinking and accept drinks from any random android.
Oh, I don't think you need an oath. It'll work itself out.
A little part of me wants to see it hit a wall, just to keep us guessing.
Just waiting for it to go 'Clannggg' as it hits the painted wall. Shame about the lack of sound in space, but maybe George Lucas could make a movie about it.
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It will pass the boundary on December 21st, 2012. The aliens will see it, and they will contact us. Then, everything changes.
To boldly probe where no man has probed before.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Is it going by the name V GER yet?
but where do the wires go?
Yeah that's just silly. The guys on the Voyager are too old and out of touch to have a twitter account.
The wires connect to this giant turtle...
By gorgeous space amazons hunting the Galaxy for men to kidnap to do the job of a man (changing the light bulbs, rearranging the furniture, carrying the groceries....wait, did you expect something different)!
I am really hoping that once Voyager gets outside the local sun's bubble, it picks up a dial tone.
After all, what makes more sense than modulating the background, and talking only to species smart enough to pick it up, by getting outside their local bubble?
My guess is most species would have been a little slower to send a probe out that far, and grown up a bit more in the meantime.
But maybe.
Great, we'll be the AOL newbies of the galactic net.
This has to at least be the third time we've hit some definition of "The edge of the solar system"
Not that I'd expect a fan of that soft-scifi trash to know the difference...
I love sci-fi snobs, almost as entertaining as music snobs. Were you into sci-fi before it was cool?
Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: It's a really obscure number, you've probably never heard of it...
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Q: why did the hipster burn his tongue?
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