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Title: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Sandwich on June 30, 2013, 03:48:15 pm
(i.e. Scientists have no idea what just happened.)

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/06/voyager-spacecraft-enters-a-strange-mysterious-region-11-billion-miles-from-earth-upending-long-stan.html
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: MP-Ryan on June 30, 2013, 04:21:59 pm
Now that is pretty damn cool.  I love it when science is wrong, it's humbling =)
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Dragon on June 30, 2013, 04:24:46 pm
Wow. I would've never expected such results. Why would cosmic rays only come from one direction? I wonder what else it finds out there.
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: deathfun on June 30, 2013, 04:50:12 pm
Science!
This is what makes science awesome
The fact it continues to blow people's minds
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Mikes on June 30, 2013, 06:42:17 pm
Wow. I would've never expected such results. Why would cosmic rays only come from one direction? I wonder what else it finds out there.

Relative movement of the entire solar system being higher than anticipated? /shrugs.

Einstein would probably have had a headache over the results!
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: headdie on June 30, 2013, 07:06:11 pm
hmmm, interesting times
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Mongoose on June 30, 2013, 09:27:22 pm
Woo, we know jack-**** about this!
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: An4ximandros on June 30, 2013, 09:59:30 pm
 Flood of "Dark Bull**** Shenanigans" theories in 3... 2... 1...
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Bobboau on July 03, 2013, 12:46:41 am
am I the first person to ask, what do we see when we look in the direction those rays are coming from?
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Luis Dias on July 03, 2013, 05:26:49 am
am I the first person to ask, what do we see when we look in the direction those rays are coming from?

Probably a supernovae.
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Sandwich on July 03, 2013, 07:29:09 am
am I the first person to ask, what do we see when we look in the direction those rays are coming from?

Bosch beer.
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: watsisname on July 03, 2013, 02:39:28 pm
And lo, for the small vessel of man passed through the turbulent boundary, freed itself from the shackles of the solar system, and finally picking up the cosmic signal clearly it gazed out into the abyss and beheld the majestic sight of the Bosch Beer.
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: haloboy100 on July 04, 2013, 10:10:29 am
So...how does this indicate that Voyager is entering an actual "cloud"?

Also, who else thought that "cloud" in this thread title was referring to internet storage clouds, and thus was totally misled by what this thread was about, because they didn't get the Star Trek reference...? :S
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Dragon on July 04, 2013, 10:23:09 am
Also, who else thought that "cloud" in this thread title was referring to internet storage clouds, and thus was totally misled by what this thread was about, because they didn't get the Star Trek reference...? :S
That reminded me of a recent Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-06-29/  :)
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: deathfun on July 04, 2013, 07:18:42 pm
Also, who else thought that "cloud" in this thread title was referring to internet storage clouds, and thus was totally misled by what this thread was about, because they didn't get the Star Trek reference...? :S
That reminded me of a recent Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-06-29/  :)

Ahhhahhaaha
I remember that one
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Lorric on July 04, 2013, 07:26:57 pm
So...how does this indicate that Voyager is entering an actual "cloud"?

Also, who else thought that "cloud" in this thread title was referring to internet storage clouds, and thus was totally misled by what this thread was about, because they didn't get the Star Trek reference...? :S

Me.

And I don't know what the reference is either.  :nervous:
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: haloboy100 on July 04, 2013, 08:02:26 pm
And I don't know what the reference is either.  :nervous:
I'm lucky my dad was a Star Trek fan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture)

I just realized that VGER is birthed from Voyager 6, which never existed, making this thread title rather innaccurate. :P
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Lorric on July 04, 2013, 08:12:28 pm
Ah, I remember that, I have seen that. Thanks.  :D
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Sandwich on July 04, 2013, 08:37:15 pm
I just realized that VGER is birthed from Voyager 6, which never existed, making this thread title rather innaccurate. :P

Ditto. After posting this thread I went a rewatched that scene in TMP in a 1080p version, and was able to make out the 6 beneath the grime. :p However, from what I could tell, TMP's V6 is identical in visual design to the real V1, so... :p
Title: Re: VGER on course for becoming the most powerful cloud EVAR
Post by: Luis Dias on July 05, 2013, 09:51:47 am
I wasn't even aware it was the 6th version in the movie. Always took it to be the one here described...