Posted on 09/15/2013 2:54:35 PM PDT by Dallas59
A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun.
The sound was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, over a distance so vast radio waves take 17 hours to reach us. Science site iO9 described the sounds as “creepy” and “wraithlike”.
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The Great Barrier Shriek?
Oops. I dropped some zeros. You are correct.
Vogon Poetry being broadcast throughout the galaxy.
Thanks for the short story. I read it tonight and liked it a lot.
Brin hit it out of the park with that one...the Hugo it won was well-deserved.
Hmmm. We will see. Wouldn’t Vger broadcast encrypted information normally? Wouldn’t do for aliens to find out what we are finding out.
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