Go Little V'ger, Go!

NASA confirms Voyager 1 has left the solar system:

Even among planetary scientists, who tend to dream large, the idea that something they built could travel beyond the Sun’s empire and keep grinding away is impressive. Plenty of telescopes gaze at the far parts of the Milky Way, but Voyager 1 can now touch and feel the cold, unexplored region in between the stars and send back detailed dispatches about conditions there. It takes 17 hours and 22 minutes for Voyager’s signals to reach NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory here.

...At a news conference on Thursday, NASA scientists were a bit vague about what they hope to get from Voyager 1 from now on. The answer, to some extent, depends on what instruments continue to function as the power supply dwindles. Dr. Stone expects Voyager 1 to keep sending back data — with a 23-watt transmitter, about the equivalent of a refrigerator light bulb — until roughly 2025.

For those of you traveling in interstellar space, please break for tiny earthling robots.

Fic: Chemistry for Hungry People (The Hunger Games)

A gift for lorataprose

Title: Chemistry for Hungry People
Characters: Brutus, Lyme, Enobaria, Beetee (Gen)
Rating: PG
Warnings: a little cursing
Summary: The Quarter Quell broke his faith in the Capitol and the Rebellion has given him little reason to pledge his loyalty, but nearly a year after the cease-fire Brutus finds he still has something to believe in.
A/N: This wee ficlet is a remix of my post-Mockingjay AU headcanon with lorataprose's District Two 'verse. No actions, thoughts, or other elements of this story are binding on lorataprose's 'verse. Your mileage may vary. Please keep your hands in the vehicle until we come to a complete stop.

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( chemistry for hungry people )