NASA says it's official

[PopeyesPappy]

The Voyager I spacecraft has left our solar system and entered interstellar space. This was in the news last year, but the loss of an instrument in 1980 kept them from being sure. Now they have been able to confirm it using other on board instruments. The probe is now 17 light hours from Earth. That's about three times the distance to Pluto.

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/12/221732909 ... llar-space

[Jason78]

The Voyager I spacecraft has left our solar system and entered interstellar space.

Again?

[PopeyesPappy]

Lol yea I know. But this time its official.

[PopeyesPappy]

Huh. It seems it hasn't left the solar system after all. It has entered interstellar space, but won't have left the solar system until sometime after it passes the Ort cloud at least 300 years from now.

[Plu]

It is still amazing to me that a satellite has been surviving outer space while keeping in constant contact with the earth for over 40 years, but most people have to replace their cellphone every year.

But yeah, this is an amazing piece of work that NASA has delivered here. Really cool.

[Johan]

It is still amazing to me that a satellite has been surviving outer space while keeping in constant contact with the earth for over 40 years, but most people have to replace their cellphone every year.

But yeah, this is an amazing piece of work that NASA has delivered here. Really cool.

In my head I can hear every Jewish Mother saying 'a satellite launched 40 years ago made it to edge of the solar system and is still in contact with earth. But getting my own son to call him mother once a week is asking the impossible.' Oye.

[josephpalazzo]

I wonder what the aliens will do with that golden record?

a) play frisbee with it
b) eat it
c) melt it and make jewelry
d) actually play it on a record player, and like a Rosetta Stone®, learn our language. What are the odds?

[Nonsensei]

It is still amazing to me that a satellite has been surviving outer space while keeping in constant contact with the earth for over 40 years, but most people have to replace their cellphone every year.

But yeah, this is an amazing piece of work that NASA has delivered here. Really cool.

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

[josephpalazzo]

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

Yikes! It's time for you to go back and learn high school physics.

 

[Plu]

I'm guessing it's more like a story about how Voyager suddenly stopping as if bumping into some kind of wall would raise some interesting questions for science.

[Nonsensei]

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

Yikes! It's time for you to go back and learn high school physics.

 

Eh?

Thats the point. It wouldn't stop moving unless something stopped it. Thats why they are freaking out.

[josephpalazzo]

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

Yikes! It's time for you to go back and learn high school physics.

 

Eh?

Thats the point. It wouldn't stop moving unless something stopped it. Thats why they are freaking out.

You haven't grasped the real meaning behind all this. It means that the total force - this solar system + all the stars in this galaxy, + all the gazillions of galaxies + Dark Matter + Dark Energy - would have to be equal zero for Voyageur 1 to stop moving. This is tantamount to a miracle, in fact, it would be ironclad proof that God exists!!??!!

On an atheist forum, that is BLASPHEMY. The only saving grace is that you are ignorant in matters of physics, why my suggestion to go back to school. I'm on your side, but you need to upgrade your knowledge.  :P

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[Plu]

That's why it would be a story... as in... fiction... something that isn't real...

[josephpalazzo]

Even a fictional story that suggests that God exists is BLASPHEMY.

 

[Jason78]

Ive always imagined writing a story about how Voyager 1 stops moving shortly after leaving the solar system and the scientists back on Earth start freaking the fuck out.

I think that Philip K Dick beat you to it.