Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system

[NickNitro]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/index.html


At the edge of the heliosphere, you wouldn't know by looking whether you left the cradle of humanity behind and floated out into interstellar space. You would just see unfathomably empty space, no matter which side of the invisible line you were on.
But scientists now have strong evidence that NASA's Voyager 1 probe has crossed this important border, making history as the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere, the magnetic boundary separating the solar system's sun, planets and solar wind from the rest of the galaxy.

 

[The Squirrel]

Now the Borg will be able to find us.

 

[Piper Maru]

We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
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- Carl Sagan

 

[Thundercrack85]

I wonder how long before a human will get to leave the solar system.

 

[BrollySupersj]

V'Ger

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I wonder how long before a human will get to leave the solar system.

Does it have to be a person or can it be a test-animal?

And alive or dead?

Probably around the same time we develop light-speed technology. I'm sure the first few intrepid souls won't survive though, just like the Russians wasted a few good dogs and monkeys on their first satellites.

 

[:eek:]

I wonder how long before a human will get to leave the solar system.

Certainly not in our lifetime. And I think it might never happen. Just getting to Mars will be a big, and expensive, challenge.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Certainly not in our lifetime. And I think it might never happen. Just getting to Mars will be a big, and expensive, challenge.

Oh you never know. Imagine if you told someone living in 1913 that they would live to see man walk on the moon (assuming that someone was in their 20's, or younger, and somehow made it out of both world wars alive) that they would ask you what you were smoking.

I'm sure if i live to be 80ish, that I'll see some amazing things. Man walking on Mars is actually kind of low on that list, really.

That seems more like an inevitability than anything else.

 

[Breogan]

Now the Borg will be able to find us.

Yes but once they play the record and here Johnny B. Goode and El Cascabel their hive mind will explode! and their individuality reestablished.
Carl Sagan knew what he was doing.
Although the pictures if human genitalia might have been a bit much and set them off.

V'Ger

If it needs to merge with a human consciousness we can offer it William Shatner, which should satiate it's quest for ultimate understanding.

 

[:eek:]

Oh you never know. Imagine if you told someone living in 1913 that they would live to see man walk on the moon (assuming that someone was in their 20's, or younger, and somehow made it out of both world wars alive) that they would ask you what you were smoking.

I'm sure if i live to be 80ish, that I'll see some amazing things. Man walking on Mars is actually kind of low on that list, really.

That seems more like an inevitability than anything else.

Well, we went to the moon in 1969. Now it's 2013 and when it comes to manned space missions we're stuck in orbit around Earth. I think most people 44 years ago would be be both surprised and disappointed if they knew that would be the future. Sure, there are plans of going to Mars, but that will happen somewhere between 2020 and 2030 in the most optimistic scenario. And from Mars to leaving the solar system it's a huuuuge step, much bigger than going from the moon to Mars. And first we have to find a reason to leave the solar system; a habitable planet.

 

[Silvermoth]

Still, bloody promising news though! I can't wait to find out more

 

[NickNitro]

I wonder how long before a human will get to leave the solar system.

I dont know if we want people to start doing that...let us never forget

 

[Duke]

"To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before."