Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

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Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

Post by cronus » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:02 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153

Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.

Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars.

Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going.

Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home.

This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth.

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Post by klr » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:11 pm

Damn, beat me to it.

Anyway, Carl Sagan would be pleased ...
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:15 pm

Again? :coffee:
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Post by klr » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:22 pm

To be fair, the scientists are saying that it actually happened in August 2012. It's only now they've called it.
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:57 pm

But doesn't it still depend what you choose to mean by 'the Solar System'?
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Post by klr » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:04 pm

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:But doesn't it still depend what you choose to mean by 'the Solar System'?
It's a grey area - literally - especially as this the first time that we have collected data from something that had a chance to go that far out into space. I guess the Heliopause is just not that easy a boundary to pin down. It's probably a gradual transition, and I suspect it also moves around a bit.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:22 pm

Slightly chilling to think that this betamax spaceship will be sailing interstellar space long after the species that created it goes extinct.
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Post by Rum » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:25 pm

Unless our fate is to digitise the universe and to rebirth it when the endless photon soup is about to pop out of existence..complete with Voyager somewhere between galaxies by then probably..
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Post by klr » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:27 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:Slightly chilling to think that this betamax spaceship will be sailing interstellar space long after the species that created it goes extinct.
If we'd only waited a few decades, we could have sent much better tech to wow ET.
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Re: Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:29 pm

klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Slightly chilling to think that this betamax spaceship will be sailing interstellar space long after the species that created it goes extinct.
If we'd only waited a few decades, we could have sent much better tech to wow ET.
apple is already working on that alien-trapping upgrade path...
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Re: Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

Post by klr » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:34 pm

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Clinton Huxley wrote:Slightly chilling to think that this betamax spaceship will be sailing interstellar space long after the species that created it goes extinct.
If we'd only waited a few decades, we could have sent much better tech to wow ET.
apple is already working on that alien-trapping upgrade path...
On the other hand, the thought of sending i-Tech out into the void ... aliens would have immediately marked us down as a shallow lot. :nono:
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Re: Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:46 pm

What, the iVoyager 5 just has a slightly faster processor and is available in beige? Xarbot, launch the invasion!
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Re: Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

Post by mistermack » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:17 pm

It was just on the news, and what struck me was the pack of lies that was sent out.

There was a voice recording of some woman talking about us coming in peace and harmony etc etc.

If the aliens find out what we're really like, they'll never trust the word of humans again. They'll probably point a gigantic vaporiser in our direction.
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Post by klr » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:25 pm

mistermack wrote:It was just on the news, and what struck me was the pack of lies that was sent out.

There was a voice recording of some woman talking about us coming in peace and harmony etc etc.

If the aliens find out what we're really like, they'll never trust the word of humans again. They'll probably point a gigantic vaporiser in our direction.
We could always plead the Blues Brothers excuse:

"It wasn't a lie, it was just ... bullshit."
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Re: Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:31 am

So, when do 'they' send it back after 're-fitting' it?
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