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To: BenLurkin
At present, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is 21 billion kilometers from Earth, or about 141 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. It has, in fact, moved beyond our Solar System into interstellar space. However, we can still communicate with Voyager across that distance.

Oh, my.

34 posted on 12/02/2017 5:17:42 PM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: Libloather

#34. Re “However we can still communicate with Voyager across that distance”.

Coming to a theater next year, “Star Trek: Voyager - Call Home”.


45 posted on 12/02/2017 6:06:08 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Libloather

And the ping rate is better than Eastern Europeans playing on American Battlefield servers.


65 posted on 12/04/2017 1:26:13 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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