In other news...

[alexpgp]

Via xkcd.com:



According to the site,

So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.

This on news that (surprise!) Voyager may still be within our Solar System, but caught inside an interstellar flux transfer event (say that ten times fast!).

Just... wow!

Comments

[grosh.livejournal.com]

System's prisoner. Solar system's ;-).

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Quit griping. They got to have a good party each time ;p

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Haha! I saw a recent (weeks ago) debate, which made me think of Bullwinkle pulling a rabbit out of his hat: "This time, for sure!"

So much theory, so much backtracking. I have confidence that it will someday leave, but... when?