This was fascinating to me. The website I'm listing has the Voyager spacecraft still operating (August 2012) after 35-years as it caught the sound of a solar eruption proving it was now into interstellar space. If you like space news, you'll enjoy this ...

http://news.yahoo.com/voyager-1-pro...-091212267.html

For those who follow such human efforts, here’s another link to that extraordinary event!

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I'm still not sold on the whole "sounds of space" bit, but we have either sent forth a valiant emissary, or placed a dangerous hazard in the space-lanes.

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OF, you should realize that one does not preclude the other.

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**SMASH** Hey everybody, we just bet the Terran roving Ambassador.

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