NASA: it's official, Voyager 1 crossed edge of solar system

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#1 lamprey263
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/nasa-voyager-1-space-probe-solar-system_n_3915762.html I mean I've heard it was under debate but I guess it's settled now and it did so about a year ago, though they needed to look at the data to make the determination, the final clue in the data had to do with the electron density in solar plasma and a noticeable difference in electron density in interstellar plasma well, there we have it, one 11.6 billion mile journey to the edge of the solar system was completed August 25, 2012
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#2 deeliman
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To infinity, and beyond! 

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#3 GrayF0X786
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

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#4 Renevent42
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
Very true! I also wonder how many Africans that were hacked to death by being the wrong kind of religion could have been saved by more intervention ($$$). Clearly we in the west have our priorities messed up.
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#5 deeliman
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
So?
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#6 deeliman
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[QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

Renevent42
Very true! I also wonder how many Africans that were hacked to death by being the wrong kind of religion could have been saved by more intervention ($$$). Clearly we in the west have our priorities messed up.

Africans slaughter each other. The west has their priorities messed up. Awesome logic.
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#7 Rattlesnake_8
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It took a year to work out where it went and how far?
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#8 Renevent42
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[QUOTE="Renevent42"][QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

deeliman

Very true! I also wonder how many Africans that were hacked to death by being the wrong kind of religion could have been saved by more intervention ($$$). Clearly we in the west have our priorities messed up.

Africans slaughter each other. The west has their priorities messed up. Awesome logic.

I was being sarcastic...may not have come through very well though.

I think it's great we invest so much in scientific discovery. 

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It took a year to work out where it went and how far? Rattlesnake_8
It's not exactly as easy as it sounds.
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It took a year to work out where it went and how far? Rattlesnake_8

More like it took a year to come to an agreed determination of where the solar system's edge is defined.

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[QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

Renevent42

Very true! I also wonder how many Africans that were hacked to death by being the wrong kind of religion could have been saved by more intervention ($$$). Clearly we in the west have our priorities messed up.

It costs US citizens 8 cents a year per capita to fund operation of Voyager. Since it's inception, it has cost half the price of a candy bar per capita. Sounds like a drop in the bucket for such an enormous amount of information gathered by the project.

The more you know. 

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Has it hit the Charon Relay yet?
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#13 Renevent42
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[QUOTE="Renevent42"][QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

WhiteKnight77

Very true! I also wonder how many Africans that were hacked to death by being the wrong kind of religion could have been saved by more intervention ($$$). Clearly we in the west have our priorities messed up.

It costs US citizens 8 cents a year per capita to fund operation of Voyager. Since it's inception, it has cost half the price of a candy bar per capita. Sounds like a drop in the bucket for such an enormous amount of information gathered by the project.

The more you know. 

I was being sarcastic...I'm a huge fan of funding for science and exploration.
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Voyager is an awesome NASA program.

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#15 deactivated-5f9e3c6a83e51
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Pretty cool that man had made something that has now left the known solar system.

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Has it hit the Charon Relay yet?Makhaidos

Im still waiting for Babyfart McGeezax to show up

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Space caaaash, seeee?

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It took a year to work out where it went and how far? Rattlesnake_8
Voyager one was launched in 1977, using 1977 technology, and is running off of a quickly depleting nuclear reactor that is currently 125 AU from the Sun or 18,699,733,875 kilometers. It takes time for any type of signal to reach Earth from that distance. Moreover nothing man made has ever left the Solar System yet, so it would be difficult to pin-point exactly when something has left the gravitational ****ing reach of the Sun when we've never encountered such an occurance with a man made object.

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*waves*

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It took a year to work out where it went and how far? Rattlesnake_8
I'd say the margin of error becomes pretty gigantic at the distance Voyage is at now, I suspect that right now they are basically at a point where it's without doubt out of the solar system.
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.GrayF0X786

You really should quit wasting your time on this gaming website and start selling matches for the poor.

We clearly shouldn't do anything for the sake of expanding our knowledge because of the poor. Life is after all just one huge hospital.

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#22 ferrari2001
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Good news. The first man made object to ever leave the Solar System. Now we just need to figure out how to travel there in much less time. The voyage took far to long for an actual person to accomplish.
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It will return ...

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Good news. The first man made object to ever leave the Solar System. Now we just need to figure out how to travel there in much less time. The voyage took far to long for an actual person to accomplish. ferrari2001
I don't even think that was it's initial mission, it was originally built to study Saturn and Jupiter, all the rest is a bonus.
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#25 m0zart
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[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]Good news. The first man made object to ever leave the Solar System. Now we just need to figure out how to travel there in much less time. The voyage took far to long for an actual person to accomplish. lamprey263
I don't even think that was it's initial mission, it was originally built to study Saturn and Jupiter, all the rest is a bonus.

Well yeah, of course it wasn't the primary purpose. However, they always intended to continue to track it until its power supply was depleted.

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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
Except that NASA and its missions have created technologies and inventions that have saved countless lives. You're trying too hard. If I were you I'd slip back in your hole.
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
I hope you realize that we won't be able to live on this planet forever, so what NASA is doing indirectly could lead to saving our entire species one day.
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#28 worlock77
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786

You do realize that Voyager 1 was built and launched more than three and a half decades ago right? Not sure how not building it then would have helped Africans in the present day. Regardless, you can apply that logic to anything. Absolutely anything. For instance, how many millions have the Saudi royals spent on expanding, modernizing, etc the mosque around the Kabba? Tens of millions? Hundreds of millions? How many starving Africans could have been fed with that money?

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#29 deactivated-5b78379493e12
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It will return ...

Stesilaus

I always think of this when Voyager is mentioned.

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#30 genius2365
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Has it hit the Charon Relay yet?Makhaidos
Well, it's way past Pluto, so if anything it would be passed the Charon Relay (seeing as Charon is a moon of Pluto). I wonder when it will land on the Citadel?
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#31 byof_america
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The thing is, helping others is beneath the arab countries. It's up to us inferior western types to shoulder the burden of feeding the entire world, even the arab countries

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that's pretty freaking amazing. It's still in the milky way galaxy though correct?

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[QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

Renevent42
Very true! I also wonder how many Africans that were hacked to death by being the wrong kind of religion could have been saved by more intervention ($$$). Clearly we in the west have our priorities messed up.

best post ever. :)
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#34 JohnF111
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that's pretty freaking amazing. It's still in the milky way galaxy though correct?

Serraph105
Yes, and likely will never leave it, at least for a few thousand years and even then we might never hear from it when it does.
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#35 worlock77
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that's pretty freaking amazing. It's still in the milky way galaxy though correct?

Serraph105

Yes. For comparison let's say the galaxy is a large-ish city, Voyager has pretty much just left the block and made it across the street.

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#36 ferrari2001
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that's pretty freaking amazing. It's still in the milky way galaxy though correct?

Serraph105

Here's a before and after pic of the probes current location in relation to the milky way galaxy, the green dot is the probe.

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[QUOTE="Serraph105"]

that's pretty freaking amazing. It's still in the milky way galaxy though correct?

worlock77

Yes. For comparison let's say the galaxy is a large-ish city, Voyager has pretty much just left the block and made it across the street.

I would say it just left the house. I would say getting across the street would be Alpha Centauri, which will probably happen around the time our Sun, Sol, burns out.

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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786

and who cares?

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It took a year to work out where it went and how far? Rattlesnake_8
not how far, they didn't know really when they crossed the boundary of the heliosphere, see the planets just don't orbit the sun in a perfect vacuum, solar system is filled with plasma from the sun and it creates a bubble which is called the heliosphere, and that bubble of plasma reaches out until it's going up against interstellar medium they had to determine whether or not the craft actually left the heliosphere and entered the interstellar medium, and that's what they figured out
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Well done to Voyager 1, now try and avoid the Reapers while you're out there....
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
what a dumb post
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#42 lamprey263
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[QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

wis3boi
what a dumb post

he said he was just being sarcastic, I hope that's the case at least
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
And Islamic morons telling people to refuse polio vaccines because they contain American mind-control drugs is so much better. Science >>> Religion
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[QUOTE="wis3boi"][QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

lamprey263
what a dumb post

he said he was just being sarcastic, I hope that's the case at least

probably to save face
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
There are plenty of things for which you can use this argument for, but not science brah. Knowledge is always good, and the spin-off technologies that come from development help humanity.
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[QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

foxhound_fox
And Islamic morons telling people to refuse polio vaccines because they contain American mind-control drugs is so much better. Science >>> Religion

Well a number of Americans themselves believe that, and dislike vaccines..
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thats great!

and the number of Africans that died in the past year due to the lack of food and wealth distribution almost matches and possible exceeds the number of dollars used to build that fvcking ship.

GrayF0X786
Ive heard this same logic before. Why fund $100 million on sending a spacecraft to another planet, when that same money could be used to feed people? First, that money being spent does turn into pay checks, which people go buy food with. Second, that are 7 billion people on Earth and its increasing. It not like there isnt food available since the population growth continues. How much money do you think Apple and Samsung spend on research and development on the latest smartphones? I could tell you a whole lot more then it cost to build Voyager. That same $2 billion spent could be used to save thousands of people by providing them with safe clean drinking water.
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Well a number of Americans themselves believe that, and dislike vaccines..dramaybaz
Polio? It was practically eliminated until these Muslim groups started their propaganda.
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#49 Sparky04
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that's pretty freaking amazing. It's still in the milky way galaxy though correct?

Serraph105
Yeppers, the Milky Way is MASSIVE stretching over 100000 light years; however, it is only about 1000 light years in thickness on average so we are theoretically only 500 light years away from the galaxies edge at maximum.
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#50 Praisedasun
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Good,now we just need some aliens to return it to us.