Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System

Started by starwarp2000, June 30, 2012, 06:15:20 PM

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starwarp2000

June 30, 2012, 06:15:20 PM
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/

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Pimander

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June 30, 2012, 06:30:38 PM Last Edit: June 30, 2012, 06:32:44 PM by Pimander
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.



P.S.  Only joking my alien friends.  Please don't eat me. :)
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