Voyager 2 on government shutdown: "Farewell, humans. Sort it out "

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote](CNN) -- Leave it to NASA to give us some perspective -- about 9.5 billion miles worth -- on the unpopular shutdown of the U.S. government.

"Due to government shutdown, we will not be posting or responding from this account," the crew responsible for the Voyager 2 space probe wrote late Monday on Twitter. "Farewell, humans. Sort it out yourselves."

The tweet may have tapped into many Americans' exasperation with the impasse in Congress that has ground the government to a halt. As of midday Tuesday it had been retweeted more than 7,000 times.

NASA, of course, is just one of many federal government agencies affected when the government shut down at midnight Tuesday because of Congress' inability to pass a budget.[/quote]

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/tech/social-media/nasa-government-shutdown/index.html?hpt=po_t1[/url]

[Explosions]

Well this has happened multiple times since Voyager was launched.