The spacecraft Voyager 1 is now nearly 18 billion kilometres from the sun, at the very end of the solar system. It’s peacefully sailing in a new region between us and interstellar space. NASA poetically calls it cosmic purgatory. More »
If I were an alien and I listened to these human greetings, I would totally freak out and destroy Earth. Fortunately, the original Voyager’s Golden Records don’t have that creepy background noise, just the voice of humanity and Gaia’s sounds. More »
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that our solar system is crossing a cloud of interstellar hell. One that shouldn’t be there at all. Intergalactic plot to keep us isolated from a cosmic event? Voyager got the answer. More »
newVideoPlayer("/gizmodospace.flv", 500, 375,""); In space, nobody can hear you sing Dancing Queen when you are in the shower. But if you listen closely, you can hear the planets making noises. Noises so scary that make me want to move to another solar system. More »
Do Bluetooth headset makers plant their seeds at the same time every year or something? Following the Jawbone Prime, modeled by sexy ladies, is Plantronics’ Voyager Pro, modeled by business douches.
Corsair’s Voyager Port a semi-automated backup system, just waiting for your USB 2.0 flash drives to dock into.
On October 19, NASA will launch the IBEX, or Interstellar Boundary Explorer, into a 210km earth orbit to begin mapping the very edge of our solar system. This region of space, also known by the kick arse scientific name “termination shock,” is rife with mystery. Only the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured there, but they weren’t armed with the right kind of tech to adequately catalog what’s going on at the point where our solar system meets outer space. IBEX is, and from its orbit around our planet it will beam back some of the first detailed measurements of the region.
The Voyager 2 probe could be the first man-made object to travel outside the solar system in a few years, which may or may not result in it being discovered by sentient life and then sent back to “join with its Creator”. V’ger 2 actually lost out to V’ger 1 in terms of crossing the “termination shock” boundary, a place where solar wind falters due to pressure “from gas in the interstellar medium lying outside the solar system”. It’s all very astrophysics, but suffice it to say that the probe is now about three times as far away from the Sun as Pluto, and will manage to give us a firsthand look at what’s outside the solar system. [NewScientist] More »
Plantronics’ latest headset, the Voyager 855, may look like a normal headset, but it actually allows you to be twice as dorky-looking with an add-on earbud attachment to turn it into a stereo headset for music. That’s right, the 855 supports A2DP, and you can activate stereo mode by just plugging in the earbud cable, wrapping it around your neck and sticking it in your other ear. More »
