Nothing leaves the heliosphere!
-PJ
Posted on 03/20/2013 2:57:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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That is very and what we need to be doing more of as a nation. Push the boundaries, explore beyond what we know, and discover!
At least it didn’t bounce off of the heliopause.
As my Dad always said when I went out to ride my bike, “Write if you get work...”
Well done, V1....
NASA would certainly serve us better as a modern Lewis and Clark agency with private industry following to open the frontier.
11 billion miles from the sun in 35 years, meh...
Obama spent 6$ trillion in four.
Actually, a very cool report, but the sun is at a very weak solar max and I would guess the heliosheath is somewhat compact.
Nothing leaves the heliosphere!
-PJ
There was a time when the US was bold enough to accomplish this. Now, we’d rather pay for federally funded abortions, sex reassignment surgeries, and all of the other freebies our government bought votes with.
Confusion! How does this ‘reach out’ and help Muslims feel better about themselves. Mohammed didn’t launch interstellar probes so we should not either. It’s offensive.
We got our money’s worth out of this one.
an interesting bttt
V’Ger will return ;-)
And yes I know it was Voyager 6 in the movie.
Another era, another time.
My daughter was a jet mechanic on the 117 and 22. She always knew of my lost over the A12/SR71s and one day she took me to the Tucson museum to see the one there. Keep in mind her then-job working on the best of the best and the fact she had never seen one of these beasts in the flesh. in the flesh.
Long story short her mind could not grasp that it was built 50 years ago. And on the engine they had on display with mechanical actuators consisting of wheels and ‘rubber bands’, I thought she was going to have ‘a moment’.
What we did then/that era, in space and aeronautics will likely never be repeated until warp drive becomes real. Thanks to our Govt.
Edit - Lost = Lust
Honest question.
How long does it take to get “data” back from this craft ?
From a different report,
“”Although Voyager 1 still is inside the sun’s environment, we now can taste what it’s like on the outside because the particles are zipping in and out on this magnetic highway,” said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.”
I bet it tastes like microwave chicken...
Sometimes I think Voyager will be sending messages back to a world reduced to scavengers killing each other with sticks for a potato.
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