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Message 1406073 - Posted: 21 Aug 2013, 18:06:29 UTC

Ay lad, we built things to last in 'the good ole days'

Let's hope they keeping for another few years.... hello 40th :)
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Message 1406219 - Posted: 22 Aug 2013, 1:31:33 UTC

Fun with scaling factors:

If the sun was the size of a 1cm marble, Earth would be 1m away, Neptune would be 30m away, Voyager 1 would be 128m away, and Alpha Centuri would be 300km away.
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Message 1406429 - Posted: 22 Aug 2013, 12:47:39 UTC
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A little bit of Earth out there somewhere in the dark yonder....never to be forgotten.
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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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Message 1407831 - Posted: 26 Aug 2013, 7:31:36 UTC

To infinity and beyond...and who knows, maybe to encounter an alien life form one day...
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Message 1411761 - Posted: 5 Sep 2013, 12:20:47 UTC

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Message 1414734 - Posted: 12 Sep 2013, 18:35:30 UTC

On to the stars.

http://www.latimes.com/la-sci-sn-nasa-confirms-voyager-1-has-exited-the-solar-system-20130912,0,6990209.story
NASA confirms Voyager 1 has left the solar system


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html#.UjIJMT_CY40
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.

New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager is in a transitional region immediately outside the solar bubble, where some effects from our sun are still evident. A report on the analysis of this new data, an effort led by Don Gurnett and the plasma wave science team at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, is published in Thursday's edition of the journal Science.

"Now that we have new, key data, we believe this is mankind's historic leap into interstellar space," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them. But we can now answer the question we've all been asking -- 'Are we there yet?' Yes, we are."


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Message 1414743 - Posted: 12 Sep 2013, 18:44:45 UTC - in response to Message 1414734.  




NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.

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Message 1414763 - Posted: 12 Sep 2013, 19:11:48 UTC

That's so amazing we leave our marks in places no man will ever come or see with the naked eye...
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Message 1414802 - Posted: 12 Sep 2013, 20:58:43 UTC - in response to Message 1281390.  

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"....



I hope they find it some time in the future and give it a new battery (or the futures equivalent) so we can keep in touch. I'd like to think Voyager will continue with its journey uninterrupted, rather than bringing her home.
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Message 1415030 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 11:38:01 UTC

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Message 1415166 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 16:56:06 UTC

...go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.


A faint ion trail?

(warning: obscure Star Trek reference)

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Message 1415178 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 17:12:23 UTC - in response to Message 1415166.  

...go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.


A faint ion trail?

(warning: obscure Star Trek reference)




Who knows which atoms combine with which over there...
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Message 1415195 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 17:57:09 UTC

Who knows which atoms combine with which over there...

Dilithium atoms, I'm pretty sure.
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Message 1415203 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 18:13:53 UTC - in response to Message 1415195.  

Who knows which atoms combine with which over there...

Dilithium atoms, I'm pretty sure.



Hmmm...fictional...
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Message 1415215 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 18:41:40 UTC

Dilithium is ficitonal??? Then how are we going to do the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs?
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Message 1416666 - Posted: 17 Sep 2013, 1:45:03 UTC - in response to Message 1415215.  

Voyager 1, phones home.




The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a network of radio telescopes operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, spotted the signal of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from 11.5 billion miles (18.5 billion kilometers) away. The image was taken on Feb. 21, 2013.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/voyager-signal-interstellar-space-nasa_n_3934023.html

Voyager 1 Radio Signal From Interstellar Space Captured In New NASA PHOTO

Voyager 1 exits solar system, let's hope aliens don't bring it back.
The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred.

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Message 1416763 - Posted: 17 Sep 2013, 8:27:01 UTC

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Message 1416893 - Posted: 17 Sep 2013, 18:23:45 UTC

I think the Oort Cloud could be considered a part of the solar system and it extents out at least 0.79 LY and possibly as much as 3 light years. The voyagers have a way to go yet before they leave the solar system.
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Message 1416904 - Posted: 17 Sep 2013, 18:57:40 UTC - in response to Message 1416893.  

I think the Oort Cloud could be considered a part of the solar system and it extents out at least 0.79 LY and possibly as much as 3 light years. The voyagers have a way to go yet before they leave the solar system.



I always thought the same thing. Thanks for posting that.

The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred.
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Message 1418639 - Posted: 21 Sep 2013, 18:15:08 UTC

I'm currently re-watching the tv series Cosmos, and Carl Sagan just made mention of the Voyager program(at that time - 1980 - in it's heyday of snapshotting the solar system).

If you haven't seen Cosmos since you were a kid, or never seen it, I highly recommend it - May look a little dated in production, but it's timeless in spirit.


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