Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'

[The Straight Story]

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153#TWEET887843

[sufrommich]

1. Very cool. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I am sure Sagan would be proud

[snooper2]

3. And it saw no indication of any "heaven" or "jesabus" along the way..

Yet, billions of people still want to "believe" LOL...


Science Works

[Boom Sound 416]

22. Just gotta look with your heart

[snooper2]

23. LOL

thanks


I asked my heart and it told me it only prays to the THC god

[Boom Sound 416]

24. Lol

[sarisataka]

4. Simply amazing

Bon voyage Voyager-if you come back there is no need to join, we can just chat about your journey

for those too young to get the reference- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

[ismnotwasm]

5. Wow

This is badass and a serious moment. Thank you for posting!

[MineralMan]

6. Here Be Dragons. nt

[Rex]

7. The distance is not vast, it is minuscule.

The space between the stars is vast.

[sufrommich]

12. It's vast in terms of movement

and distance using the technology of our planet,which is all we have to measure such things.

[Rex]

13. Not vast at all. Our technology includes measuring the speed of light.

The galaxy is vast and that tiny distance from Earth to the edge of our solar system is just that. Tiny. That is like saying 17 minutes is a vast amount of time. No, it is not.

[sufrommich]

18. Christ,alright it's really no big deal,neither

was the moon landing as there are a gazillion moons out there.

[Rex]

19. It is just a quibble about the word vast.

Go take it up with a dictionary for further argument.

[kenny blankenship]

8. Can't say I blame it.

[liberal_at_heart]

9. really cool.

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. K&R Just think of how much further along, and probably better off, we'd be today

had we kept looking up (Carl Sagan and Jack Horkheimer would be proud).

Bon Voyage.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Time for this reminder..

[Rex]

17. Now THAT is a vast amount of space and time.

nt.

[jeff47]

20. No, it isn't.

Using your argument upthread, it's still tiny when compared to the local group.

Which is still tiny compared to the Virgo supercluster.

Which is still tiny compared to the local superclusters.

Which is still tiny compared to the observable universe.

[Rex]

21. It is a very great amount of time and space. Our solar system, not so much.

Once again, go take up said argument with a dictionary. Or learn what vast means.

[jeff47]

26. I'm fitting in just fine with the definition of vast.

The solar system is vast compared to the Earth. It's tiny compared to the galaxy. But the galaxy is tiny compared to the local group. And so on.

Or you could back away from pedantic land and just enjoy the achievement.

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. All of it. Everything that we know of that has ever been or happened,

was done or happened here.

[ryan_cats]

14. So when does it fall into a black hole that takes it across the galaxy and to the machine planet?

So when does it fall into a black hole that takes it across the galaxy and to the machine planet in order to become VGER. Oh wait, that was voyager 6.

[The Straight Story]

15. It will go through a hole, go back in time, come back here and build the pyramids, history channel

will have an aliens special on it eventually

[Rex]

16. Dude, we don't want it to make contact with the machine planet!

We are still several thousand years behind the Borg on technology! Let us hope it hits the Vulcan wormhole first and not the Borg black hole!

[Bake]

27. 17 hours!

Makes you wonder how the Enterprise was able to have instant communications with Star Fleet headquarters ...



Bake