
KITCHEN SINK HELIOSPHERE: If the solar wind is like a stream of water spreading out on a flat sink bottom, then the boundary where the flow breaks against onrushing soapy water (interstellar gas) is the termination shock (recently encountered by the spacecraft Voyager 2) and the region of slower-moving water beyond it is the heliosheath. Courtesy of J.R. Jokipii
Still working after all these years, I guess they lost money on the extended warranty for the plutonium power packs the salesman talked them into...
1 posted on
07/03/2008 6:21:09 AM PDT by
Abathar
To: Abathar
2 posted on
07/03/2008 6:29:47 AM PDT by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: Abathar
The little guys just keep chugging along don’t they?
3 posted on
07/03/2008 6:41:07 AM PDT by
mnehring
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4 posted on
07/03/2008 6:43:39 AM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Abathar
Amazing that far out, we can still pickup on the craft’s radio transmission.
7 posted on
07/03/2008 6:53:00 AM PDT by
6SJ7
To: Abathar
Something tells me Voyager will be back.............it will have this really great female body and no hair...
9 posted on
07/03/2008 7:09:12 AM PDT by
AxelPaulsenJr
(300 Million People Going Bust Over High Gasoline Prices and Hussein Obama Wants to Hug Trees.)
To: Abathar
Just released by AP. The source of the giant vacuum the dented our solar system has just been revealed.

10 posted on
07/03/2008 7:16:12 AM PDT by
GunnyHartman
(Proud Infidel)
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13 posted on
07/03/2008 8:21:13 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Abathar
Did they find this thing?

-PJ
17 posted on
07/03/2008 9:07:56 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
To: Abathar
The shock wave, or heliospheric termination shock, occurs when the supersonic wind thins to the point that it can no longer rebuff the denser haze of charged particles flowing through interstellar space. Instead, the solar wind suddenly collapses in on itself.Uhmmm...no?
18 posted on
07/03/2008 11:02:27 AM PDT by
NucSubs
(Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
To: Abathar
19 posted on
07/03/2008 9:01:11 PM PDT by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: Abathar
check out
spacesounds.com
26 posted on
07/04/2008 3:50:23 PM PDT by
marajade
(Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
To: Abathar
Michelson-Morley, anyone?
Funny thing is that I read they actually did find a difference, but it was deemed by the “establishment” at that time to not be enough to be statistically significant.
28 posted on
07/05/2008 3:37:08 AM PDT by
djf
(I don't believe in perpetual motion. Perpetual mutton, that's another thing entirely!)
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