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Go Little V'ger, Go!
Sep. 13th, 2013 12:13 amNASA 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.
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.
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brate7 sent me a fantastic birthday present:
At first, all I saw were the yellow cars, and then it's like: Sheep! Tolberlones! OMG, hidden otter! I can't even, people.
So I'm sitting here munching all of
mrwubbles' Jammie Dodgers, exploring myfieldnotes' Whitechapel premiere pack, including custom stationary:
and thinking that I'm monopolizing three of the most awesome friends in the universe. I feel a little bad about that, though obviously, not bad enough to do anything about it. :P
