Voyager I Enters Interstellar space :)

[Steamtrains]

Yeah, I know what you mean Andy. This star system is soooooooooooooooo last millenium. I only come back here once in awhile just to visit some friends and family then BAM, I'm soooooooooooo outta here again!

I'm sorry we have strayed from your one track (pun intended) mind....

[ngauger]

To repeat...The article says 11.6 MILLION miles. A billion is a thousand millions....

Yeah, I noticed the correction and then googled it.

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.

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Either way, it is way farther than I can imagine, one much farther than the other...

Well - the fastest way I thought of to settle this one was to Google the orbit of Pluto

Aphelion (Farthest from The Sun): 7,311,000,000 km --- That's 7.3 Billion km So.. The Billion Miles is correct, since "Million" would be well inside the orbit of the Earth (152 Million km)... Are you smarter than a 5th grader??

So, NASA is correct But we already knew that --- right?????

[lajry]

This still has nothing to do w/ RRs - yawn.

[Tyson Rayles]

Lower Berth
Talk about most anything non-train related here

[ngauger]

.............. and that's why it's in this "Non Train Related" forum

[ezdays]

.............. and that's why it's in this "Non Train Related" forum

Oh shoot, I though we were talking about long trains.

To paraphrase a long-ago senator, a billion miles here, ten billion there and pretty soon we're taking really long distances.

To put things in prospective, I once drove from California to New York, that's been about my limit for long distances. As for heights, cruising along at around 35,000 feet was my tops. A few feet more and we could have slung out of orbit and into outer space.

[Sumpter250]

If Voyager has been traveling for its 36 years of age:
It would have to be moving at +/- 36,042 MPH hour, to have traveled 11.6 Billion miles.
to reach 11.6 Million miles, it would have to have traveled at 360.42 MPH
The average airspeed of commercial jets is 500 knots. This is roughly 575 mph.
Logic seems to indicate that 11.6 billion miles is more correct, Voyager moved faster that a commercial jet.

[MadModeler]

Despite all the arguments, this is really neat. I remember hearing about the launch and following some of its progress during my school years. Pretty wild.

[ngauger]

Which reminds me,.... we haven't heard any new news as to weather it has official gone interstellar.

[Sumpter250]

Which reminds me,.... we haven't heard any new news as to weather it has official gone interstellar.

Got my "ride" out:     and went looking ......

Looks like "interstellar" to me.

[ngauger]

Which reminds me,.... we haven't heard any new news as to weather it has official gone interstellar.

Got my "ride" out: and went looking ......

Looks like "interstellar" to me.

Too Funny!!!!

[Tyson Rayles]

The next time I feel like joy riding I'll need to borrow that jewel Pete!

[Sumpter250]

The next time I feel like joy riding I'll need to borrow that jewel Pete!

Just give me a couple of days advanced notice.....the Inertial compensators will have to be re calibrated, and then matched to your body mass, so you accelerate at the same rate as the vessel. With a 0 - 5X 'light', instantaneous jump,it could "get messy" if that isn't done.

[eightyeightfan1]

You mean Voyager isn't in the Delta Quadrant?

[FiatFan]

It missed the telephone booth so it has to circle back.