"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Monday, June 18, 2012

This is Really Cool

to think about...no matter what kind of continuing nonsense is going on down here on the polluted orb we inhabit.  An excerpt from the Phys.org site linked on the right:

"Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion - that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system."

This is a 34-year old spacecraft and the transmissions from it take almost 17 hours...one way...and we are just geting out of our local solar system.

Feeling small yet?

The rest of the phys.org item is here.

As always, dear readers - happy thinking!

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