Voyager 1 enters interstellar space!

Negadeth

Voyager 1 leaves the influence of our Sun and enters the Heliosheath! It's almost out of our Solar system after 27 years!

Although I am sad to see that no-one is interested in funding this kind of thing anymore. The only really active space programs are the ones to put bloody great big weapons up there. Typical really.

Prs-Phil

there she blows ...

I´m sad to see that there is no interest in funding programs that make our world a better place to live than to send metal into space

Sett

Fools! Now they will know where we are!

From a sci-fi vs. reality standpoint it shows how ficken' huge space realy is. Traveling for 26 years at a million mph(?) and still hasn't left the sun's influance. We ain't ever leaving this rock!

KDR_11k

In a few hundred years it's going to come back with a huge starship and wanting to fuse with "the creator"...

gauss

wow, i'm pretty sure i'm going to start a band called 'Heliosheath' now space is filled with cool names!

sundance

that was voyager SIX, kdr...

i thought voyager 1 was already in interstellar space, i guess that was just 'beyond pluto's orbit space' though...

Rwolf

Nice to know where insignificant.

Mojo2k

i agree with phil the whole space thing seems "neat" but really a useless way to spend money that could be put to better use.

Mishra

im in the love orgy that is phil and mojo. sure knowledge is a great thing to persue but we can learn so much from our own planet and bodies.

BRUTICUS(CW)

Does anyone else remember a recent article stating that Voyager 1 seemed to have come to a halt. Almost as if it was stuck in the boundary of our solar system? I wonder what happened with that.


Imagine if it was all some sort of thin liquid on the boundary of the solar system.

KDR_11k

Remember, not everything you read has to have even the tiniest bit of truth to it.

Negadeth

I think that was Voyager 1 hitting the Termination Shock, where gas from other stars and solar systems collide with the solar wind from our own star.