I see in a matter of time a mile long ship will appear over Cape Canaveral, and a beam will come down with the Voyager I craft in the middle of it and land on the tarmac and a transmission will come from the ship and it will say, "Damn kids, keep your toys off my freakin lawn."  

OMG!!! What happens if it punctures and breaks the bubble!

 

*Pop*

Thanks for taking this seriously, I had hoped more would do the same. I have spent a fair amount of time on the NASA sites and have acquired 1,221 HD photos for my library as of late. I have always been a science nut having started out reading everything I could find by Andre Norton (aka Andrew North) particularly because she involved a lot of ‘animals’ in her stories. I loved the sciences and the math enough to make a profession in nuclear power. The grandeur of space is overwhelming in its variety and possibilities, like a star that is a billion times as massive as our star which itself is a million times as massive as the earth, amazing? Or things like there are more galaxies in the known universe than there are stars in the Milky Way, just mind boggling. Jafo (hi) … I know that you know exactly what I mean and you know that I know exactly what you mean too … or is that presumptuous of me (lol)? With that being said, what do you think of the successes (and failures) of the Voyager projects?

PS - Is there a way to remove some posts from ones ‘My Replies’ list to prevent them from popping up to the head of the line?

I usually do. Been keeping up on the Voyager's voyage (pun intended) since they were launched in '77. The pics they sent back fron Uranus and Neptune are still the only ones of both gas giants and the Voyagers being the only probes ever to reach them. We should get some good ones from New Horizons on its way out to Pluto. Last report said New Horizons was somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn. Wonder what they'll do now that Pluto has five satellites orbiting. Only planets are thought to have satellites. Think they'll re-re-classify Pluto.

Good for you in moderation. Excellent surce of protein. People been scuffin' 'em up for a bazillion years now. As for a planet...well......maybe....with some ketchup. lol

I first heard about New Horizons when it was in the oncept stage. When I saw a report saying it was given the go ahead I was exsctatic! Best Hubble view shows Pluto as a glowing disk but check this out. There is actually a very good pic of Pluto. Tentative IMO but it suggests some surface details. I guess two more years waiting isn't too bad though.

One for you.

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmJeE_33R5E&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Yes, once you remember Earth's part of the same galaxy called 'The Milky Way' then you know nothing we can do can 'enter it'.....only 'leave'.  [unless we leave first].

And, No ...the only way I expect that can happen is if you are able to delete your posts [which I can do - but only when appropriate/required]...

That would be a "Galaxy" not a "Solar System"

+4 to Leo for going there first.

I'd already corrected it...if you'd refreshed you would have noticed.

There weren't any responses prior to the correction....

I fully expect that soon Voyager will mysteriously stop transmitting, and baffled, we will search in vain for it, only for a signal arrive years later signaling it is in a nearby star system, thus proving that outside the star system's bubble there is hyperspace everywhere and FTL is not only possible but mandatory.