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[BartSimpson]

1Peg 1Peg:

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

Thanks for sharing.

And when that happens the laugh will be on us when we find out that the name of the first alien to visit us translates in English to Christopher Columbus.

[BartSimpson]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

xkcd's take on this:

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So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.

It passed the crystal sphere?

[stratos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

1Peg 1Peg:

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

Thanks for sharing.

And when that happens the laugh will be on us when we find out that the name of the first alien to visit us translates in English to Christopher Columbus.

[Public_Domain]

[DrCaleb]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

xkcd's take on this:

Hover text:
So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.

It passed the crystal sphere?

I'm not going to pretend that I understand any of those terms.

The first two are real, the rest made up. The guy who writes XKCD is actually a NASA Engineer.

[raydan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres

[PluggyRug]

raydan raydan:

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

No...Mork came from Oshawa.