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To: mistermj who wrote (513)	7/31/2012 7:45:07 PM
From: SofaSpud	3 Recommendations of 528

He`s almost certainly right, but it`s sad: Alone in the Void By ADAM FRANK SOMETIME this year Voyager 1, a probe sent from Earth 35 years ago, will cross a threshold no human-fashioned object has reached before. Passing through a sun-driven shock wave at the edge of the solar system, it will reach the icy dominions of interstellar space. Voyager is one of the fastest vessels we’ve ever blown out of Earth’s gravity well. Still, after three and a half decades of hyper-velocity spaceflight, it will take another 700 centuries for the craft to cross the distance to the nearest star ... nytimes.com

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