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Eight billion miles away, Voyager exits Solar System
The Independent (U.K.) ^
| 11/06/03
| Steve Connor
Posted on 11/05/2003 1:38:05 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: Larry Lucido; Asclepius
The Klingons blew up one such plaque-laden probe in Star Trek V.
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posted on
11/05/2003 2:37:38 PM PST
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: longtermmemmory
We apologize for any inconvenience. Ahhh - another Hitchhiker's Guide fan. Voyager skedaddles outta Dodge before the Vogon Hyperspace Bypass Project demolishes Earth and the rest of the Solar System.
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posted on
11/05/2003 2:37:46 PM PST
by
ctonious
To: Pokey78
Lessee, in our torus universe, we should expect re-entry in seven kali whaddayacallums. Seven minus one and counting . . .
To: Pokey78
"termination shock"
I had a friend that was killed by this once.He hit a tree with his car.
I prefer the term "deceleration sickness" tho.
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posted on
11/05/2003 2:38:28 PM PST
by
Gringo1
(Learn to speak Spanish or you cannot order a happy meal.)
To: Az Joe
"Soon it may encounter Dennis Kucinich."
ROFL!!! good one
To: newgeezer
sorry...been on high speed internet for too long to remember the "slow old days..."
:)
To: bobjam
China sure as a long way to go to catch up... Actually, not. The moon is only a quarter of a million miles away. The Chinese are currently putting men in space. We are currently grounded until 2005 (by some estimates).
To: Pokey78
If Voyager enters a worm hole, maybe it will go to another dimension. A dimension of sight, a dimension of sound.
To: ElkGroveDan
Here's the one they put on Voyager:
"Hi, aliens!"
To: Pokey78
....and yet there are actually people on this BB who believe the US cannot protect it's own borders.
Simply amazing.
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:13:15 PM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Egon
To: demlosers
Looks like Voyager will still be in the local system. Termination shock isn't what they said the boundary was a couple years ago. Then it was heliopause. So they are setting bow lower just to make a claim.
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:36:44 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: Asclepius
Having a bad hair day, are we?
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:36:57 PM PST
by
barkeep
To: birbear
Did you bring alone your towel?
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:39:04 PM PST
by
billbears
(Deo Vindice)
To: Az Joe
"Soon it may encounter Dennis Kucinich."Absolutely the funniest thing I've heard all day.
He IS "way out there", isn't he?
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:47:32 PM PST
by
FixitGuy
To: Straight Vermonter
It was a bad post. 900 m/s is in helium gas.
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posted on
11/05/2003 3:55:21 PM PST
by
rudypoot
To: RightWhale
I don't recall what they said, but I don't doubt it.
To: ctonious
thought the fourth book of the trilogy was a bit weak.
To: All
It does raise and interesting point. If the solar system is traveling at 400+ miles per second, why is it that time travel stories never take that into account? (ie the delorian would have to be a space machine)
It also makes space travel more complicated if you want to go far and then come back to your starting point. (hey, who moved the earth?)
To: cruiserman
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posted on
11/05/2003 4:27:49 PM PST
by
kanawa
(kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight)
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