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#602363 - 09/12/13 08:51 PM Officially left the building
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Voyager has finally, officially left the building after numerous articles saying it had, then hadn't, then maybe had. NASA finally stuck it's nose out to give a definite yes. I love all stuff astronomical, and I know at least yoyo does too, so I figured I'd post it.

Voyager has left the building
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#602369 - 09/12/13 09:23 PM Re: Officially left the building [Re: lanovami]
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It has gone a long way and sent back a lot of data with 68kb of memory. Pretty impressive.
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#602372 - 09/12/13 09:41 PM Re: Officially left the building [Re: Papa]
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Yes, that particular side of things fascinates me as well.
I didn't know until this article that it would take another 30K years to exceed the orbit of the furthest out comets circling the sun. That is some pull from Sol!
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#602376 - 09/12/13 09:53 PM Re: Officially left the building [Re: lanovami]
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#602401 - 09/13/13 02:26 PM Re: Officially left the building [Re: lanovami]
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Boy that's one amazing WiFi system !! wink
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#602413 - 09/13/13 07:14 PM Re: Officially left the building [Re: lanovami]
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Originally Posted By: lanovami
Voyager has finally, officially left the building after numerous articles saying it had, then hadn't, then maybe had. NASA finally stuck it's nose out to give a definite yes. I love all stuff astronomical, and I know at least yoyo does too, so I figured I'd post it.

Voyager has left the building

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.

You Are Here: Carl Sagan on "the Pale Blue Dot"


"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

-- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
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