QuoteLast week, in the corners of the Internet devoted to outer space, things started to get a little, well, hot. Voyager 1, the man-made object farthest away from Earth, was encountering a sharp uptick in the number of a certain kind of energetic particles around it. Had the spacecraft become the first human creation to "officially" leave the solar system?
http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/get-ready-because-voyager-i-is-this-close-to-leaving-our-solar-system/258456/ (http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/get-ready-because-voyager-i-is-this-close-to-leaving-our-solar-system/258456/)
Awesome. Maybe it will alert aliens to our existence as a technological species. Lets hope Stephen Hawking isn't right and our Galactic neighbors decide to wipe us out lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0PVkGj4bg
P.S. Only joking my alien friends. Please don't eat me. :)