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We Finally Know What Happened When Voyager 2 Reached Interstellar Space
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| By Jennifer Leman Nov 4, 2019
Posted on 11/08/2019 9:10:01 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Does anyone believe that a satellite built and launched today would still function in 40 years?
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posted on
11/08/2019 12:50:47 PM PST
by
motor_racer
(If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
To: motor_racer
All if the people who launched it bought the maintenance plan!
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posted on
11/08/2019 12:54:21 PM PST
by
Reily
To: doorgunner69
“There is an app for that!”
They make sliderule apps for phones... :)
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posted on
11/08/2019 1:54:11 PM PST
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: cuban leaf
That’s stuff that’s leaking out, is the same stuff that was inside of “Stretch Armstrong”.
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posted on
11/08/2019 2:29:54 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
To: Pollard
Persis Khambatta
From FreeRepublic in 2010: Star Trek The Motion Picture : Remembering Persis Khambatta and Lt. Ilia
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2458729/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
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posted on
11/08/2019 2:59:15 PM PST
by
justme4now
(Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
To: justme4now
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posted on
11/08/2019 2:59:42 PM PST
by
justme4now
(Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
To: Pollard
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:00:55 PM PST
by
justme4now
(Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
To: Deaf Smith
Look to the EPA for further bans and phase outs of products that could deplete our solar material. I wonder what the "Climate Change Child" would think of this? Yeah, yeah, I know, "How dare us!!!"
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:14:00 PM PST
by
ssaftler
(The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
To: Pollard
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:18:47 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: Red Badger
Five spacecraft are on track to leave the solar system
Name Launched Current distance (AU) Speed (km/s)
Voyager 1 1977 145 17
Pioneer 10 1972 123 12
Voyager 2 1977 120 15
Pioneer 11 1973 100 11
New Horizons 2006 43 14
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posted on
11/08/2019 3:55:43 PM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: outofsalt
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posted on
11/08/2019 4:43:24 PM PST
by
wgmalabama
(Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens)
To: outofsalt
I think it would be cool just to see how far / fast we can get an operating probe. No stops, just multiple sling shot maneuvers if needed. Competing designs.
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posted on
11/08/2019 4:45:18 PM PST
by
wgmalabama
(Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens)
To: Bubba_Leroy
I still have my Post Versalog and its hardbound instruction manual.
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posted on
11/08/2019 6:11:06 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: Openurmind
“There is an app for that!” They make sliderule apps for phones... :)
I would get a great laugh seeing some iPhag user operate a sliderule.
To: wgmalabama
"Where is the manhole cover ?" Perhaps as it transitioned to interstellar space it became a personhole cover. Or, it smacked into Uranus.
Cool story. I had never heard it before.
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posted on
11/09/2019 4:22:09 AM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: Red Badger; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
11/09/2019 8:55:10 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
... when the Voyager spacecrafts were designed, constructed and launched, the most powerful supercomputer at NASA (the ILLIAC IV supercomputer) had far less computational power than your average smartphone today. Our current space program stands on the shoulders of giants...
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posted on
11/09/2019 9:33:47 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Every election that's statistically 'too close' to call will go to democrats. Fraud works for dems.)
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