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  1. December 15, 2010, 11:08 AM #1
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    Default Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...ar-system-NASA

    How significant an event is this? Does this news article reveal anything that astronomers weren't already aware of?
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Maybe the actual dimensions can be tweeked from real data, but I see it as more of a 'one small step for man' kinda thing.
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Quote Originally Posted by xcorps View Post
    How significant an event is this? Does this news article reveal anything that astronomers weren't already aware of?
    Of course it is. It's our first human object to travel in interstellar space.

    I just hope it never comes back in 200 years to find it's creator.

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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    It is what?
    Significant? In what way, other than being the first at something?
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Quote Originally Posted by xcorps View Post
    It is what?
    Significant? In what way, other than being the first at something?
    Also Voyager is still sending data. We can get some data on interstellar space.

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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    It's not massively significant, but considering that Voyager 1 is pretty much the furthest matter humanity has chucked out of their home planet, whatever it is doing, it is an important first. We haven't even begun to explore our universe.
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Quote Originally Posted by Plant View Post
    We haven't even begun to explore our universe.
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    Both male and female walruses have tusks and have been observed using these overgrown teeth to help pull themselves out of the water.

    The mustached and long-tusked walrus is most often found near the Arctic Circle, lying on the ice with hundreds of companions. These marine mammals are extremely sociable, prone to loudly bellowing and snorting at one another, but are aggressive during mating season. With wrinkled brown and pink hides, walruses are distinguished by their long white tusks, grizzly whiskers, flat flipper, and bodies full of blubber.
    Walruses use their iconic long tusks for a variety of reasons, each of which makes their lives in the Arctic a bit easier. They use them to haul their enormous bodies out of frigid waters, thus their "tooth-walking" label, and to break breathing holes into ice from below. Their tusks, which are found on both males and females, can extend to about three feet (one meter), and are, in fact, large canine teeth, which grow throughout their lives. Male walruses, or bulls, also employ their tusks aggressively to maintain territory and, during mating season, to protect their harems of females, or cows.
    The walrus' other characteristic features are equally useful. As their favorite meals, particularly shellfish, are found near the dark ocean floor, walruses use their extremely sensitive whiskers, called mustacial vibrissae, as detection devices. Their blubbery bodies allow them to live comfortably in the Arctic region—walruses are capable of slowing their heartbeats in order to withstand the polar temperatures of the surrounding waters.
    The two subspecies of walrus are divided geographically. Atlantic walruses inhabit coastal areas from northeastern Canada to Greenland, while Pacific walruses inhabit the northern seas off Russia and Alaska, migrating seasonally from their southern range in the Bering Sea—where they are found on the pack ice in winter—to the Chukchi Sea. Female Pacific walruses give birth to calves during the spring migration north.
    Only Native Americans are currently allowed to hunt walruses, as the species' survival was threatened by past overhunting. Their tusks, oil, skin, and meat were so sought after in the 18th and 19th centuries that the walrus was hunted to extinction in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia.
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Quote Originally Posted by Plant View Post
    We haven't even begun to explore our universe.
    we haven't even begun to explore most of our own planet either. 2/3 of the earth is water and we know more about space then we do our deep oceans. If we ever expect to setup colonies off world then the first thing we need to do is setup permanent bases at the bottom of the sea.
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    heres to hoping it passes by an alien ship
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Maybe some alien civilisation is just waiting till we get extrasolar before visiting us.

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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Quote Originally Posted by Manco View Post
    Maybe some alien civilisation is just waiting till we get extrasolar before visiting us.

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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Heheh this is so awesome i cant wait!
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Yeah, 500 years from now the Covenant will be visiting us and glassing our planets all because of Voyager 1.
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    Quote Originally Posted by Magister Militae Flavius Aetius View Post
    Yeah, 500 years from now the Covenant will be visiting us and glassing our planets all because of Voyager 1.
    actually its like 200 years from now
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    Default Re: Significance of the Voyager 1 entering heliopause?

    There's that time in every deep space probes life where it enters heliopause.
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