Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind

healeyb noted that Voyager 1 has now reached a distance from the sun where it is no longer able to detect solar wind. Launched in 1977 to get up close and personal with our solar system's gas giants, scientists estimate that in another 4 years it will cross the heliosphere.

Sentience

[truthsearch]

At what point does it become sentient, call itself V-ger, and return to destroy earth?

Edge

[Metabolife]

It's going to fall off the edge of the universe. I just know it.

Data transfers

[Picardo85]

are still probably cheaper per kB than sending an SMS ...

Re:Sentience

[drinkypoo]

Maybe this is the timeline where Cochrane decides it's easier to make money with a Ponzi scheme than a warp engine.

Re:Go Voyager 1!

[dogsbreath]

It's fascinating to think that in just about four years the first man-made object will leave our solar system. And to think that only a little over 100 years ago we were still trying to get ourselves airborne. We've come a long way. I wish I knew what we'd be doing 100 years from today.

er... picking through radioctive rubble and looking for a scrap to eat? ... avoiding Triffids?

Re:Edge

[ATestR]

Nonsense. Any day it will splat against the solid glass wall on which all the stars are painted in florescent paint.

Re:Sentience

[Canazza]

well, it looks like we're heading for a moneyless society quicker than trek did

Re:Article Text

[Culture20]

,/U\j
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You're all clear, kid, now let's *blow* this thing and go home!