Voyager 1 reaches solar system's final frontier
It hasn't lost contact with earth after all this time. It's still running and sending back data. V-ger rocks! :)
It hasn't lost contact with earth after all this time. It's still running and sending back data. V-ger rocks! :)
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happy - Current Music:Joy Division - She's Lost Control
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Isn't that incredible? It's done way more than I have in 26 years. :)
I read an article yesterday where a scientist predicted that we'd find a lot of Earth-like planets in the next 25 yrs, but none displaying signs of complex life (oxygen atmosphere, lots of water) with in 100 light years. I thought, that's a huge volume (a little under 4.2 million cubic light-yrs. Even if the star systems are spaced 10 light-yrs apart on average in our corner of the galaxy, that's still almost 4200 within 100 light-yrs. I can't even fathom that sort of volume, much less the entire universe! No wonder everyone who looked in that thing was mentally destroyed (except for Zaphod).