Reggie29 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 The spacecraft Voyager 1 is heading toward Interstellar Space. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8182875/nasa-spacecraft-nears-edge-of-solar-system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetleron Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 cool.........good to see a fellow astronomer out there course you have a much better view of the stars over there than we do.......but i'm coming over to check it out soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 cool.........good to see a fellow astronomer out there course you have a much better view of the stars over there than we do.......but i'm coming over to check it out soon Not so much in the city but on the coast and west of the Blue Mountains in NSW there are some spectacular views of many constellations, planets and of course the Southern Cross! When are you coming over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetleron Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 well i wanted to come over for those 2 U2 shows you had (one which just ended) as i was invited.......but i'm coming over as soon as i tie up a few loose ends here.....hopefully going to spend a lot of time there and the night sky is certainly one of the things i'm looking forward to seeing. i'm not sure many people here have ever even seen it, sad but true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidersandsnakes Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 FANTASTIC!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Fills the Air Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 It will be really fascinating to see what is discovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 What did you learn ? ? ? But, did you learn to Love ? ? ? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Sounds like a good reason to go to nuclear power to me. I wonder if it has an odometer on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGDAN Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 It will be really fascinating to see what is discovered. Hi Magic, As long as it doesn't do a flypast of the Rings of Uranus you should be well covered. Kind Regards, Danny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecil. Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Having a sense of humour, you could say something built 34 years ago managed to leave the solar system, yet something built 6 months ago seems to fall apart after 6 weeks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Having a sense of humour, you could say something built 34 years ago managed to leave the solar system, yet something built 6 months ago seems to fall apart after 6 weeks... Because back then spaceships weren't made in China. On the beginning of The Simpsons on Sunday they did a short cartoon of the Koreans (?) making the cells for the cartoons in a dark cave to some somber slave music. It was pretty funny but most likely true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonzoLikeDrumer Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Cool! I even remember this one.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10 Only thing is, the amount of time it will take these craft to get any where out side of our own system. We'll likely have space ship's that move at trajectories approaching light speed in the next 50-100 years. With that in mind, we can travel to Proxima Centauri a long time (perhaps million's of years) before these probe's we have already launched will arrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 On Jan. 1st, 2011 I'm sending a rocket propelled conestoga wagon into space. The pic shows how it will be protected from meteor showers and asteroids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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