Scientists say the Voyager 1 spacecraft is near the outer limit of the solar system, 26 years after its US launch. The boundary is a region called "termination shock" where particles from the sun begin to slow down and clash with atomic matter from deep space. Nasa says Voyager 1 is about 13.5bn kilometres from Earth and will not reach another system for 40,000 years. The spacecraft carries greetings in 55 languages and audiovisual materials depicting life on Earth. Beyond the ever-shifting termination shock boundary, lies a region called the heliopause, that marks the beginning of interstellar space. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3245677.stm Bon Voyage, Voyger I. We'll see you in the 23rd Century when you hitch a ride back.
Makes you think just how big our galaxy really is. Voyager is just now about to leave the solar system, not such a small world after all eh?
We wonders how they expect any alien life form to understand how to build an AV player let alone understand the encoding format. I also can't help thinking why you would build an interstellar spacecraft and then load it up with material to prove we are an intelligent life form, the very existance of Voyager itself proves the point.
Re: Re: Voyager 'at edge of solar system' They included a player, and instructions in picture form for the record, so geting it to play should not be hard. While it does prove that we are inteligent, it allso shows where the earth is in relation to our sun, and has some simple path truths, such as a^2+b^2=c^2 around a picture of a triangle and that 0+1=1 and 1+1=2 ect. ect. ect. It is to give a baseline so that with a little luck we could get a form of comunication, mabey math based at first.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek or something where they found voyager, Science had evolved so fast that mankind had overtaken it before it had arrived.
Re: Re: Re: Voyager 'at edge of solar system' So if these aliens aren't friendly, they now know where we live?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Voyager 'at edge of solar system' like the billions of watts of radio and tv radiation that we put up every day, would not tell every inteligent alien out there (that even came close to us, say 20 or 30 light years away) already knows where we are, and if they can figure out how to get the pictures from the tv, the will know most everything they need to know about us