This is just....COOL!
For the first time....EVER....a human-made object is about to (well...sometime soon) actually exit our Solar System and enter interstellar space.
OK, I'm not counting beams of Survivor, DWTS, American Idol, etc. that travel at near-light speed but I don't want to spread it around that they came from Earth anyway -- do you?
Thirty five years Voyager has been dragging its 68K memory (that's right - K) out to the outer reaches. If you are hold enough, think back to what you were doing 35 years ago...if not, think what your parents were doing (well, maybe not!).
Seriously, we of a certain age group (roughly the "boomers") have been fortunate to be witnesses if not participants in a succession of never-before first time events. Neil Armstrong and the moon landing, unprecedented discoveries in the world of physics that come ever closer to explaining the origins of the universe and now, a chance to break free and with whatever instruments aboard Voyager still work, getting a glimpse of what is really out there...I mean REALLY out there.
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