nasa sent out voyager 1 along time ago, like 25 years ago ish. it is now 8 billion miles away from the earth! thats 86 times our distance from the sun. anyway its supposed to reach the heliopause in like 2-5 years ish if i remember right. the heliopause is the boundary where the solar wind from the sun meets interstellar wind, which is like a flow of atoms and particles blasted from explosions of dying stars. the boundary is supposed to be like breathing, flexing in and out constantly.
anyway scientists are going to find cool readings and **** there, and it is so far the farthest object we have sent from earth. Whats really badass about it, is that scientists put information about humans on it, samples of what the human body consists of (images) and even our own music. they think it will lose contact with the earth in 18 years if uncorrupted by et's or hitting a huge arse rock or something to that extent wouldnt it be cool if it kept going and et's find it and were all like woah we can use this technology to learn and send stuff back, because im pretty sure if something within that distance finds it in under 18 years, they would have sent us stuff if there technology were greater. anyway i just thought that was really cool. figured id share it with you all.
