[Newsbot]

Title: Voyager 1 has left the solar system
Category: Science
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2013-03-20 13:08:55
Canadian

[1Peg]

All this space stuff is so interesting. I sure hope some other intelligent life forms find Voyager 1 & 2.

Thanks for sharing.

[PluggyRug]

1Peg 1Peg:

All this space stuff is so interesting. I sure hope some other intelligent life forms find Voyager 1 & 2.

Thanks for sharing.

Edited for accuracy.

If an intelligent life form does discover Voyager they will be seeing Earth's 1977 technology.
I can imagine the response...'what no smart phones, must be a real backward bunch'

[1Peg]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

1Peg 1Peg:

All this space stuff is so interesting. I sure hope some other intelligent life forms find Voyager 1 & 2.

Thanks for sharing.

Edited for accuracy.

If an intelligent life form does discover Voyager they will be seeing Earth's 1977 technology.
I can imagine the response...'what no smart phones, must be a real backward bunch'

I disagree! Since they have the capabilities to find and capture the craft/s they would see where earth was and would understand how long it took for the craft/s to get where they are.

[Thanos]

Good luck, little spacecraft. Don't give our co-ordinates away to the Borg or the Dominion if you meet them.

[saturn_656]

Thanos Thanos:

Good luck, little spacecraft. Don't give our co-ordinates away to the Borg or the Dominion if you meet them.

At least we know the Klingons are unlikely to garner anything useful from it.

[Thanos]

It's good that the usual Klingon stupidity makes them one of the least dangerous villains out there.

[ShepherdsDog]

It wasn't the Klingons that created V'ger

[saturn_656]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

It wasn't the Klingons that created V'ger

Since the Voyager program was canned after Voyager 2, we have avoided the problem of Voyager 6's future capture by advanced machine beings.

My inner geek is beginning to leak out.

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

It wasn't the Klingons that created V'ger

The creators of V'ger weren't villians. So, there is symmetry.

[Thanos]

V'Ger wasn't evil, at least not SkyNet evil. It was just curious and wanted to come home.

[DrCaleb]

^^ Z'actly.

[herbie]

Oh look Znargh! It's a take-out menu.
Yummy...

[DrCaleb]

The big debate though is the definition of 'Solar System'.

If we define it as the limits of the influence of the solar wind; where other influences cancel out the solar wind - then Voyager 1 has passed that barrier.

If we define the 'Solar System' as the orbit of things orbiting around the Sun, then Voyager still has a long way to go. The 'Oort cloud' is thought to be a area around the sun where many things that formed during the creation of the solar system currently occupy. When a chunk of rock got too close to a forming planet, and that mass created a gravity 'slingshot' that fired the rock . . .somewhere, then the Oort cloud is where it ended up.

It's thought that this region would be somewhere about a light year from the sun, orbiting very slowly around the sun. Voyager 1 is 34 light minutes from the sun. So, it has a very long way to go to get to the Oort cloud. (if it exists)

[raydan]

Oort... is that where Mork's from?