Thursday, April 10, 2008

Voyager 2


I was looking up the date of Pluto’s declassification as a planet, for a curious friend, and stumbled upon the wikipedia article about Voyager 2. As you know, Voyager 2 sailed by many of the planets in the solar system taking pictures’n stuff. Afterward, it’s just kinda continued to cruise out into deep space. The article states the following…


Since its planetary mission is over, Voyager 2 is now described as working on an interstellar mission, which NASA is using to find out what the solar system is like beyond the heliosphere. Like Voyager 1 around three years before, Voyager 2 crossed into the heliosheath, the last section of the heliosphere before interstellar space, in October 2007. Each Voyager carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent aliens. The disc carries images of Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, and a medley, "Sounds of Earth", that includes the sounds of whales, a baby crying, waves breaking on a shore and a variety of music.

Great! We’ve given the Borg, Romulans, Protoss, and Sith a menu of entrées and the address to the restaurant. Thanks a lot NASA!

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