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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
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To: Abathar

that is amazing!

thanks.


2 posted on 07/03/2008 6:29:47 AM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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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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To: KevinDavis

Ping!


4 posted on 07/03/2008 6:43:39 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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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
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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.)
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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 (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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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!)
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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)
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To: Abathar

BTTT!


19 posted on 07/03/2008 9:01:11 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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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!)
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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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