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krispos42

(49,445 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2013, 06:24 AM Mar 2013

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"Voyager 1" by XKCD

So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.

http://xkcd.com/1189/

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"Voyager 1" by XKCD (Original Post) krispos42 Mar 2013 OP

Well, sometimes it's hard to say goodbye Orrex Mar 2013 #1

Hope it doesn't shatter the crystal sphere pokerfan Mar 2013 #2

Well, it's not like there's a wooden sign or a chalk boundary. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #3

Magnetogap... progressoid Mar 2013 #4

It does seem like it. NutmegYankee Mar 2013 #5

Orrex

(63,199 posts)

1. Well, sometimes it's hard to say goodbye

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Fri Mar 22, 2013, 08:33 AM

Mar 2013

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

2. Hope it doesn't shatter the crystal sphere

Reply to krispos42 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 10:26 AM

Mar 2013

The possibility of successfully navigating a Kuiper gauntlet are approximately 3,720-to-1.

Never tell V'Ger the odds.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

3. Well, it's not like there's a wooden sign or a chalk boundary.

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Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:20 PM

Mar 2013

"NOW LEAVING THE SOLAR SYSTEM"

progressoid

(49,969 posts)

4. Magnetogap...

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Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:19 PM

Mar 2013

That's where villains shop for clothes for their kids.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

5. It does seem like it.

Reply to krispos42 (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 08:00 PM

Mar 2013

I suspect a lot of that is based on media that don't really understand what they are reporting.

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