#May2021

NASA’s Voyager 1 Probe Detects The Steady Hum of Plasma in Interstellar Space. The Cosmos is Glorious!

nasa voyager 1 plasma hum

We’ve sent Voyager 1’s ass into deep space. Interstellar space, even! Now out there, it’s discovering all sorts of dope shit. Take this shit for example: the steady hum of plasma.

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Bad Ass: Voyager 1’s thrusters have been fired up for the first time in 37 years

voyager 1 thrusters fired up 37 years

No big whup. NASA Wizards have just dusted off Voyager 1’s old as fuck code, and successfully fired up its thrusters for the first time in 37 goddamn years.

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Watch: This animated tribute to NASA’s Voyager Program is all the feels

VOYAGER 1 REALLY, TOTALLY HAS LEFT THE SOLAR SYSTEM. HONEST.

WE DID IT.

Guys. Guys. Guys! Seriously. It’s serious this time. For now. It’s like, legit. Voyager 1 is the first human-made spacecraft to leave our solar system. Those other times we thought it it? Forget them. This is legit. Stop grimacing with skepticism. This is the truth.

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NO WAIT — VOYAGER 1 left our SOLAR SYSTEM LAST YEAR. LOLWUT.

Voyager 1.

I have to enjoy small victories in life. Like when I watch people far, far, far more intelligent than me trip all over themselves. Take for instance: those Astronomical Wizards who keep trying to figure out if Voyager 1 has left our solar system.

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[Update: No!] VOYAGER 1 has left the SOLAR SYSTEM. We did it!

Voyager 1.

[Update: It hasn’t. I frigging knew it.]

Voyager 1 has totally left the solar system. This time it is for real. Right? I feel as though I have written nineteen different posts about Voyager 1, and whether or not it has crossed the cosmic Rubicon  Now comes a paper that has confirmed the spectacular leap for mankind. We get to keep it this time, right? Please?

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VOYAGER 1 has entered the ‘magnetic highway’ as it prepares to leave solar system.

Fare the well, Voyager 1. You’re currently hauling ass through the “magnetic highway”, as you approach the limits of our solar system. Keep in mind our wonderful moments together. Recall, if you will, the time we built your ungrateful ass. Fawn over the concept of being the first object we’ve sent out of our solar system. Dearest regards.

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VOYAGER 1 may not exit the solar system for another 15 years. Well frak.

You can cancel those high-fives, folks. Despite reports last year that Voyager 1 was finally throwing up the deuces to our solar system, new intel suggests we may be looking at a much longer exit timeline. Hope your liver and heart is well, ’cause if you want to be alive for this grand event you may need another decade and a half.

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NASA: VOYAGER 1 Has Almost Left Our Solar System. Hell Yeah.

Voyager 1 has been working its way out of our solar system for a long, long, long goddamn time. If calculations by astronomical wizards are correct, it is pretty much there.

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NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Preparing To Leave Our Solar System. So Glorious.

NASA’s Voyager 1 has been rummaging around the solar system since 1977. 19-fucking-77! That’s a considerable amount of time, and it has grown bored of this little portion of the galaxy. Soon, soon indeed!, it’s going to bid adieu to our solar system. That’s right, the first man-made object is about to leave the Sun’s domain. Incredible.

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