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TheCommandTent

December 04, 2012, 08:20:38 PM
QuoteIt keeps going ... and going ... and going ....

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now the most distant human-made object from the sun, at about 11 billion miles, has entered a new region at the edge of the solar system it is close to exiting forever.

Scientists have dubbed this region the "magnetic highway" and it's the last stop before interstellar space, or the space between stars.

"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. "We believe this is the last leg of our journey to interstellar space. Our best guess is it's likely just a few months to a couple years away."

"The new region isn't what we expected, but we've come to expect the unexpected from Voyager."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/03/at-far-side-solar-system-voyager-1-discovers-new-region-space/#ixzz2E8VAu1Yq

Voyager is older than I am so I find this so fascinating that it is still going and transmitting data.
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Gusington

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December 04, 2012, 08:22:05 PM
I am older than Voyager and I still transmit data.
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December 04, 2012, 08:26:25 PM
Are you monitored by NASA scientists?  Using the most up to date equipment.
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LongBlade

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December 04, 2012, 08:29:54 PM
Quote from: Gusington on December 04, 2012, 08:22:05 PM
I am older than Voyager and I still transmit data.

Even more amazing when you consider the stubby antenna you use.
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Barthheart

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December 04, 2012, 08:38:08 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on December 04, 2012, 08:29:54 PM
Quote from: Gusington on December 04, 2012, 08:22:05 PM
I am older than Voyager and I still transmit data.

Even more amazing when you consider the stubby antenna you use.

Ouch!  :o

Gusington

#5
December 04, 2012, 09:26:00 PM
My antenna is real and spectacular.
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LongBlade

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December 04, 2012, 09:32:06 PM
LOL

Wondered when you'd see that :)
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GDS_Starfury

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December 04, 2012, 10:34:18 PM
Quote from: Gusington on December 04, 2012, 09:26:00 PM
My antenna is real and spectacular.

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Steelgrave

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December 04, 2012, 10:59:59 PM
LMAO to the whole damn thread!   ;D

TheCommandTent

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December 04, 2012, 11:21:44 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on December 04, 2012, 10:59:59 PM
LMAO to the whole damn thread!   ;D

I know I should have expect this when I started it.
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Martok

#10
December 05, 2012, 09:40:58 AM
Cool.  I'm always fascinated with our space probes and what they might run into as they enter the greater galaxy. 





Quote from: TheCommandTent on December 04, 2012, 11:21:44 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on December 04, 2012, 10:59:59 PM
LMAO to the whole damn thread!   ;D

I know I should have expect this when I started it.
You should really expect it in just about every thread that gets started here.  C'mon now!  :P 


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Smuckatelli

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December 05, 2012, 10:03:20 AM
Quote from: Martok on December 05, 2012, 09:40:58 AM
Cool.  I'm always fascinated with our space probes and what they might run into as they enter the greater galaxy. 

There is nothing fascinating about a sigmoidoscopy.

W8taminute

#12
December 05, 2012, 10:10:14 AM
Good article.  The comment about Voyager being on it's last leg of the journey before reaching interstellar space made me feel giddy.   8)

It would be interesting to see if at that extreme range if we could get some data on interstellar space.  That would be a scientific first I think.
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Martok

#13
December 05, 2012, 10:20:56 AM
Quote from: Smuckatelli on December 05, 2012, 10:03:20 AM
Quote from: Martok on December 05, 2012, 09:40:58 AM
Cool.  I'm always fascinated with our space probes and what they might run into as they enter the greater galaxy. 

There is nothing fascinating about a sigmoidoscopy.
I knew someone would make that joke.  Didn't expect it from you, though! 


"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Smuckatelli

#14
December 05, 2012, 11:28:15 AM
Quote from: Martok on December 05, 2012, 10:20:56 AM
Quote from: Smuckatelli on December 05, 2012, 10:03:20 AM
Quote from: Martok on December 05, 2012, 09:40:58 AM
Cool.  I'm always fascinated with our space probes and what they might run into as they enter the greater galaxy. 

There is nothing fascinating about a sigmoidoscopy.
I knew someone would make that joke.  Didn't expect it from you, though!

You probably didn't get the memo........I used to shave people's pubes.....

Anywoo......the Voyager news is making me want to watch the Star Trek movie...can't remember the name but it was about 'V' ger....
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