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Post by Dave Homewood on May 31, 2016 23:21:12 GMT 12
Voyager Probe Badly Damaged After Smashing Into End Of Universe
NEWS IN BRIEF May 26, 2016 VOL 52 ISSUE 20 News · Science · Space · Nasa PASADENA, CA—Confirming that several components had broken off the craft and that most of its scientific instruments were no longer operational, officials from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that Voyager 1, the pioneering space probe launched in 1977, had been severely damaged Thursday after crashing into the end of the universe. “It appears that, at approximately 8:20 this morning, Voyager struck the edge of the universe head-on at a speed of 38,000 miles per hour, resulting in significant structural damage to the spacecraft,” said Voyager project scientist Ed Stone, noting that the force of the impact with the outer border of the cosmos had bent the probe’s main antenna dish and completely snapped off its low-field magnetometer. “While we’re receiving only intermittent signals from Voyager now, incoming data indicate that, in addition to nearly totaling the craft’s thermoelectric generator, the collision left a significant dent in the end of the universe as well.” JPL scientists added that Voyager 1 now appears to be moving laterally, scraping its left side along the universe’s outer edge, and that it is expected to continue doing so for the next 50 or 60 years until the remaining fragments of the probe eventually come to rest in the bottom-right corner of outer space. www.theonion.com/article/voyager-probe-badly-damaged-after-smashing-end-uni-52996http://www.theonion.com/article/voyager-probe-badly-damaged-after-smashing-end-uni-52996
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 31, 2016 23:21:29 GMT 12
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 1, 2016 0:15:47 GMT 12
...and you can watch it's undramatic descent from the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 1, 2016 8:46:01 GMT 12
Well that's unfortunate. I thought the Universe would be bigger.
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Post by TS on Jun 1, 2016 10:37:17 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 1, 2016 14:23:33 GMT 12
Who's out there? It's a selfie!
One big clue that this is The Onion is the statement “It appears that, at approximately 8:20 this morning, Voyager struck the edge of the universe", it would take years for that signal to return to earth!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 1, 2016 14:54:24 GMT 12
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Post by raymond on Jun 1, 2016 21:31:51 GMT 12
Shades of Truman
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