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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1246514 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 17:53:13 UTC
	Thread closed. Please credit, Gordon Lowe for original thread. Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion - that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system.
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bill Send message Joined: 27 Apr 12 Posts: 71 Credit: 142,031 RAC: 0	Message 1246520 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 18:00:30 UTC - in response to Message 1246514.
	I was woundering what was happening with that project thank for info
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1246534 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 18:42:31 UTC - in response to Message 1246520.
	I was woundering what was happening with that project thank for info Welcome! Undated artist's concept illustrating where our solar system's final frontier, the heliosheath, fits in relation to our galaxy. REUTERS/NASA
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Larry Monske Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 237 Credit: 514,490 RAC: 63	Message 1246542 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 19:06:32 UTC - in response to Message 1246534.
	Voyager 1 11.1 billion miles from earth, voyager 2 9.8 billion miles from earth, both are in a bow shock wave caused by the sun. Seems its concentrateing particles.
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1247048 - Posted: 16 Jun 2012, 18:50:11 UTC - in response to Message 1246542.
	http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120614.html Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html Latest News http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Tee Jay Send message Joined: 25 Jul 10 Posts: 165 Credit: 37,750 RAC: 0	Message 1247768 - Posted: 18 Jun 2012, 2:36:45 UTC
	Awesome. Keep on truckin' Voyagers!!
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22686 Credit: 4,507,449 RAC: 5,877	Message 1247866 - Posted: 18 Jun 2012, 10:13:45 UTC
	Brilliant stuff, thanks Lynn :-)
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1248253 - Posted: 19 Jun 2012, 6:10:09 UTC - in response to Message 1247866.
	Brilliant stuff, thanks Lynn :-) Yes, indeed. Your welcome, Chris "It is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system's frontier." Maybe we will find out what this means?? Sun Slower Than Previously Thought: New Finding May Upend 'Bow-Shock' Theory
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Kliph Send message Joined: 13 Jan 12 Posts: 12 Credit: 234,703 RAC: 107	Message 1248423 - Posted: 19 Jun 2012, 20:54:31 UTC
	Great update, thanks. So interesting. I get frustrated when a web page loads slowly. Imagine having the patience to send a signal to Voyager I and then having to wait 33 hours for a response! ____________ There may not be air in space but there is an Air in Space Museum.
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1273556 - Posted: 21 Aug 2012, 0:29:44 UTC - in response to Message 1248423.
	Happy Birthday Voyagers! 35-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Is NASA's Longest Mission Ever
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1280168 - Posted: 5 Sep 2012, 6:49:39 UTC - in response to Message 1273556.
	Nasa's Voyager 'dancing on the edge' of outer space Voyager 1 set to burst solar system bubble, move to parts unknown
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 8942 Credit: 36,516,900 RAC: 57,943	Message 1281040 - Posted: 7 Sep 2012, 15:40:08 UTC - in response to Message 1280168.
	power supplies are going to fade by 2020. lets hope they find more interesting things by then ____________ Proud member of TSWB. End terrorism by building a school
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1281327 - Posted: 8 Sep 2012, 7:02:19 UTC - in response to Message 1281040.
	Assuming the craft continues to function normally, they will have to start turning off other on-board instruments from 2020, and it is expected to run out of power completely in 2025. Yes, indeed hope they find something.
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William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 2122 Credit: 1,088,132 RAC: 165	Message 1281363 - Posted: 8 Sep 2012, 9:17:17 UTC - in response to Message 1281327.
	Yes, indeed hope they find something A remarkable achievement but they won't find anything since it will take 75000 years to reach the nearest star and thats if it is even aimed at Proxima Centauri. It's a big place out there folks.
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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 2677 Credit: 1,504,200 RAC: 1,268	Message 1281390 - Posted: 8 Sep 2012, 10:49:19 UTC - in response to Message 1281327.
	Assuming the craft continues to function normally, they will have to start turning off other on-board instruments from 2020, and it is expected to run out of power completely in 2025. Yes, indeed hope they find something. One day, in many years to come, when we can travel through space at speeds far in excess of that possible at the moment, man's quest will be to, "Find Voyagers and recover".... ____________ The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22686 Credit: 4,507,449 RAC: 5,877	Message 1281412 - Posted: 8 Sep 2012, 11:55:11 UTC
	Not sure it wouldn't be best to let them carry on and see "who else" finds them!
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Zapped Sparky Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 2208 Credit: 627,744 RAC: 928	Message 1281640 - Posted: 8 Sep 2012, 20:43:18 UTC - in response to Message 1281412.
	Not sure it wouldn't be best to let them carry on and see "who else" finds them! Apparently in the future the Klingons come across one of the voyagers and destroy it :( ____________ In an alternate universe, it was a ZX81 that asked for clothes, boots and motorcycle. Beer/wine o'clock, the best of the o'clocks. Humpty dumpty sat on a wall, along came a giant, and cooked him for breakfast.
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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 2677 Credit: 1,504,200 RAC: 1,268	Message 1281730 - Posted: 9 Sep 2012, 0:18:03 UTC - in response to Message 1281640.
	Not sure it wouldn't be best to let them carry on and see "who else" finds them! Apparently in the future the Klingons come across one of the voyagers and destroy it :( The Klingons are now relegated to the annals of history. One suspects, via their constant fighting, that they may well have become extinct by now. Can't say the same about the Dalek's though, their bound to be out there somewhere. ____________ The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 575 Credit: 196,191 RAC: 154	Message 1281775 - Posted: 9 Sep 2012, 5:08:47 UTC - in response to Message 1281730.
	A band led by a Voyager engineer also played "Johnny B. Goode," one of the songs from the Golden Record. The Golden Record is a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The music alone, images, should scare a fictional warrior race. If they are found, please let it be from the planet Antarea. They formed an outpost on the planet Earth, on an island known to mankind as the mythical civilization of Atlantis; according to legend, Atlantis sank as the result of an earthquake.
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22686 Credit: 4,507,449 RAC: 5,877	Message 1281886 - Posted: 9 Sep 2012, 13:26:31 UTC
	From the film Cocoon. I'd go with them ....
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