So, has Voyager 1 left the Solar System? Scientists face off.
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[QUOTE]Two space physicists say that the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first vehicle to [URL="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50383/abstract;jsessionid=C3A80825DD85FBEA517A5DD16204FAD2.d04t02?systemMessage=Pay+Per+View+will+be+unavailable+for+upto+3+hours+from+06%3A00+EST+March+23rd+on+Wiley+Online+Library.+We+apologise+for+the+inconvenience"]venture beyond the heliosphere[/URL], but other mission scientists disagree.
[URL="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-107"]
A press statement issued by NASA on 20 March[/URL], says that the two researchers jumped the gun.
Other Voyager scientists, who had analyzed the same data said that until a dramatic change in magnetic field intensity and direction is detected, the craft remains firmly within the Sun’s magnetic sphere of influence.
Source:
[URL]http://www.nature.com/news/so-has-voyager-1-left-the-solar-system-scientists-face-off-1.12662[/URL][/QUOTE]
The parts posted are incredibly truncated from the source so as to avoid breaking the rules.
To compensate, I heavily sourced it :v:
Maybe poor Voyager is nervous about leaving home and keeps coming back just to try and leave again.
Has anyone ever thought about Voyager's feelings?
I think not.
I don't think there is anything outside our solar system that is relevant to us that we don't already vaguely know about. In my opinion we'll get a lot more done in a lot less time if we should focus on other planets in our own solar system (especially our own, i.e. the uncharted abyss) before we try and poke at things far beyond our reach and the reach of many generations to come.
If my grandkids, or the grandkids of my grandkids, get to live healthy lives on say, Mars, I'll be really happy. But as far as that goes we haven't even moved forward in terms of interplanetary settlement. I don't know what the deal with the Voyager is but with a name like that and the description the articles gave it, I'm under the impression it's more a political toy than an actual study tool. I think it's really awesome that we've "finally left," but there's nothing to see out there. Why not spend all these resources on giving us more resources and living space that isn't present on Earth? And sure while a very small percentage of Earth is home to humans, we can't just urbanize the whole thing. It'll destroy the fragile ecosystems that keep our planet even survivable.
It will have to get passed the intergalactic space shield first.
[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;39999439]I don't think there is anything outside our solar system that is relevant to us that we don't already vaguely know about. In my opinion we'll get a lot more done in a lot less time if we should focus on other planets in our own solar system (especially our own, i.e. the uncharted abyss) before we try and poke at things far beyond our reach and the reach of many generations to come.
If my grandkids, or the grandkids of my grandkids, get to live healthy lives on say, Mars, I'll be really happy. But as far as that goes we haven't even moved forward in terms of interplanetary settlement. I don't know what the deal with the Voyager is but with a name like that and the description the articles gave it, I'm under the impression it's more a political toy than an actual study tool. I think it's really awesome that we've "finally left," but there's nothing to see out there. Why not spend all these resources on giving us more resources and living space that isn't present on Earth? And sure while a very small percentage of Earth is home to humans, we can't just urbanize the whole thing. It'll destroy the fragile ecosystems that keep our planet even survivable.[/QUOTE]
Fairly sure none of that is a valid reason to not want data. The more we know, the more we can accomplish. The satellite is on the way out of the solar system and has been for decades, no reason to not make use of the last ten years of power it's supposed to have.
[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;39999439]I don't think there is anything outside our solar system that is relevant to us that we don't already vaguely know about. In my opinion we'll get a lot more done in a lot less time if we should focus on other planets in our own solar system (especially our own, i.e. the uncharted abyss) before we try and poke at things far beyond our reach and the reach of many generations to come.
If my grandkids, or the grandkids of my grandkids, get to live healthy lives on say, Mars, I'll be really happy. But as far as that goes we haven't even moved forward in terms of interplanetary settlement. I don't know what the deal with the Voyager is but with a name like that and the description the articles gave it, I'm under the impression it's more a political toy than an actual study tool. I think it's really awesome that we've "finally left," but there's nothing to see out there. Why not spend all these resources on giving us more resources and living space that isn't present on Earth? And sure while a very small percentage of Earth is home to humans, we can't just urbanize the whole thing. It'll destroy the fragile ecosystems that keep our planet even survivable.[/QUOTE]
Voyager 1 was sent to image the outer solar system and we learned a lot from it.
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