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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 08/20/2007 : 16:28:04
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NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they careen toward interstellar space billions of miles from the solar system's edge.
Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977. Both spacecraft continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto, where the sun's outer heliosphere meets the boundary of interstellar space. |
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2007 : 16:54:24 [Permalink]
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Soon, we should know if our solar system has been quarantined within a force-field.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
 Posted - 08/20/2007 : 17:44:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Soon, we should know if our solar system has been quarantined within a force-field.
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Good for a laugh....Dave Letterman's 'Top Ten List of Recent Scientific Discoveries', from a few years ago -- one on the list states, "Far away distant galaxies are actually only ten feet above us".
Back to subject...the Voyagers missions have always taken my breath away...the amazing fly-by photos of the gas giants. I remember their launch back in the seventies. They're way the humpin' out there these days, projecting humanities tiny brave face to the great next door abyss. Great to know Sagan's contribution is out there speaking for us with those mysterious travelers.
Maybe Spock's brain will mind-meld with the crafts in the distant future, give us a update. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Happy Anniversary!
