Nice post op

The video was cool and the picture, If I am correct, is from Voyager? If so, that is a humbling photo and quick to remind us how little we are in a mind blowing existence of whatever is out there.

I could be mistaken but I realy do think voyager was not the first man made vehicle to leave the solar system

A spacecraft called pioneer 10 left about 10 years ago

Originally posted by viperdave
I could be mistaken but I realy do think voyager was not the first man made vehicle to leave the solar system

A spacecraft called pioneer 10 left about 10 years ago

Never made it.

It lost power in 2003 (supposedly) at 80 AU from the Earth. It had to go another 45 AU or so to reach where the Voyager is about to go.

~Namaste

Is voyager still alive? can we still contact it?
are we sure it didn`t get eaten by a blackhole or an alien spaceship?

over 6 billion miles away,wow.

Not that there will be anybody around to collect on the golf bet but..

On a shorter time scale, Pioneer 11 will achieve its first stellar encounter of sorts when it passes about 1.65 light-years (0.51 parsec) from the red dwarf AC +79° 3888 in the year 42,405 AD.

Originally posted by 31Bravo
The video was cool and the picture, If I am correct, is from Voyager

You are correct, it's from Voyager. It's a humbling picture.

Originally posted by Tardacus
Is voyager still alive? can we still contact it?
are we sure it didn`t get eaten by a blackhole or an alien spaceship?

over 6 billion miles away,wow.

It's supposed to die around 2025-2030 when the power runs low, still alive for now.

Hopefully it will die rather than come back and almost destroy all humans like the fictional Voyager did in the Star Trek movie!

I'll be honest the vid had me tearin' up a bit

What a day of extremes. On one hand we have the events in a troubled region of our own planet here. On the other, we have our probes about to depart our home in this vast Universe and finally get a look at what no Human in historical record is known to have seen. The Universe...beyond the bubble which surrounds us.

I can't wait. No matter how it looks on the other side, the same or not, it's an accomplishment the entire human race should hold their heads high for and without any regard to what nation built or launched these. Nations and race stop meaning squat when we leave the orbit of this blue marble and I really believe that.

Lets just hope it's not a case of learning more than we'd have liked to. It'll be pretty rough if we discover things to be like a side mirror on a car. "Objects may be closer than they appear" and we find the bubble has had a lensing effect of any sort. It's probably impossible...but just maybe....we have some important new perspectives almost immediately!

"It was the best of times....It was the worst of times..." I can't think of a period where those famous words of literature have been more accurate to reality around us. Now lets all take pride in this stunning achievement! Indeed.

Technically, the Voyager and Pioneer probes (and New Horizons for that matter) will not leave the Solar System when they leave the heliosphere. They may pass into what is termed "interstellar space", but it is a long way to the edge of the Sun's region of gravitational dominion. The Oort Cloud of comets extends to as far as one light year from the Sun, and they will take thousands of years to travel that distance.