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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
Traveling at 636 miles per minute, Voyager 1 is headed toward
interstellar space . Right now, the craft is in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles the Sun forms around itself. The solar wind in that area is nil, but the 100-fold greater intensity of high-energy electrons in elsewhere in the galaxy indicates an approaching boundary. Voyager 1 is expected to cross that boundary sometime in the next three years. See: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...rstellar-space |
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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
How they know that for sure?
Is there still any communication with the craft? |
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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
"StarDust" wrote in message news:23606895.1642.1325232258392.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfc16... | How they know that for sure? By Newton's first law. It was headed toward interstellar space yesterday, It was headed toward interstellar space a year ago, It was headed toward interstellar space a decade ago, And it will be headed toward interstellar space in 2112, 2212, 2312, 3112, 3212, 4012, some bozo with report it as if it was news and some other bozo will ask how we know that, as if it were going to suddenly turn around and come back again. |
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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
StarDust:
How they know that for sure? Nothing is "for sure." Is there still any communication with the craft? Yes, both of them. I hate it when I allow myself to do someone else's web searching for them, but I realize that some people just don't know how to discover information on the web: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
On 12/30/11 2:04 AM, StarDust wrote:
How they know that for sure? Is there still any communication with the craft? Reading the article answers your questions. :-o |
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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
Not wishing to be picky, but, everything in the universe is moving
towards interstellar space. Even at the subatomic level. It might be more useful to define movement as the journey in coming from some origin: Voyager 1 leaves the heliosphere carrying a single ticket to the Universe. Only outside intervention or a gravitational slingshot can send it back. Last night I shone my torch after Voyager 1 to help light its way in the darkness. The cold hearted photons will shoot past without a word. This did not diminish Voyager's lonely journey as a token message in a bottle. Cast overboard by a desperate race. Living completely without hope on its sinking ark. Unable to evolve it is locked into eternal selfishness, arrogance, drooling idiocy and escapism. It makes up fairy stories to disguise the hideous acts it perpetrates on its own members. What possible collective defence could we offer if Voyager brought back unexpected visitors? What possible plea could we make for being allowed to continue as we are? Our only hope is to plead insanity and humbly submit to the treatment. Assuming there is a miracle cure for our raving madness. |
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Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space
On Dec 29, 7:14*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
Traveling at 636 miles per minute, Voyager 1 is headed toward interstellar space . Right now, the craft is in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles the Sun forms around itself. The solar wind in that area is nil, but the 100-fold greater intensity of high-energy electrons in elsewhere in the galaxy indicates an approaching boundary. Voyager 1 is expected to cross that boundary sometime in the next three years. See:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...8/voyager-1-sp.... An example of fine work by the scientists and engineers who created it. |
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