Punk Voyager in Space
Großartige Story Shaenon Garrity, gelesen in einem Podcast von Nathaniel Lee. Punks bauen sich eine eigene Voyager-Sonde, weil im Original „fucking Chuck Berry“ mitgeschickt wurde und Mozart und sowas. Und weil „[Aliens] gonna think we walk around naked and listen to Chuck Berry. There ain’t no aliens, but if there was, they’d think we suck.“ Deshalb bauen sie sich ne eigen Voyager aus Bierdosen und schicken die mit Platten von the Clash, Surfmags und ‘nem Buch über Knast-Tattoos ins All. Großartig!
“Okay, yeah. Voyager carries a record of stuff from Earth for the aliens to find. And naked pictures. They put in naked pictures of people. Yeah, whatever, naked pictures. And photos, different languages, music, stuff like that.” – “Music?” said Johnny Bonesaw. “What music?” said Red.
“Um.” Lacuna chewed her lip, thinking. “Beethoven, maybe. Or Mozart. You know, classical music. And tribal stuff, like, from around the world. And ‘Johnny B. Goode.’”
Johnny Bonesaw and Red stared at her. They stared up at space. They stared back at her. “Chuck Berry?” said Johnny Bonesaw. “Yeah.” They looked up at space, then back at Lacuna. “f***,” said Red, “That. s***.”
“f***ing Chuck Berry,” said Johnny Bonesaw. […]
Then the punks built Punk Voyager. They made it from beer cans, razors, safety pins, and did I do this part already? Whatever. They loaded it with the most precious artifacts of human culture they could find in Mexican Johnny D-bag’s van. Johnny Razor found some surf magazines. Johnny Bonesaw found a guitar pick and a book about prison tattoos. Mexican Johnny D-bag got upright long enough to find his second-best roach clip and third-best weed. Red found a Clash eight-track. And Lacuna, with great ceremony, placed within Punk Voyager the first and only LP by Bad Feet, the band they were in sometimes.
“You gotta make it faster than regular Voyager,” said Red. “So our culture gets to the aliens before the CIA’s fascist pseudo-culture.”
Voyager has left the Building: We are exploring Interstellar Space now
Es gibt seit ein paar Jahren immer wieder Meldungen zur Voyager 1-Sonde und dass sie ja nun das Sonnensystem verlassen würde. Die NASA hat noch nichts bestätigt, offiziell befindet sich die Sonde noch in der Heliopause, der äußersten Grenze des Sonnensystems, an der der komplette Einfluss der Sonne endet.
Die Meldungen über Voyager waren bislang fast immer nur Bullshit, vor ein paar Tagen allerdings haben sich die Messwerte der Sonde drastisch verändert, so dass man davon ausgehen muss, dass sie eine gewisse Grenze überschritten hat und daher lege ich mich jetzt einfach mal fest: Wir erforschen seit ein paar Tagen als sehr wahrscheinlich allererste Spezies unseres Sonnensystems den interstellaren Raum. Where no man has gone before.
At last check, NASA scientists said they were not yet ready to officially declare that Voyager 1 had officially exited the solar system by crossing the heliopause. To cross this boundary scientists say they would need to observe three things:
1. An increase in high-energy cosmic rays originating from outside our solar system
2. A drop in charged particles emanating from the sun.
3. A change in the direction of the magnetic field.As I reported in June, in regard to the first point, scientists have observed a sustained increase in galactic cosmic rays during recent months. With respect to the second point, there has been a dramatic and sustained drop in charged particles (principally protons) originating from the Sun that have struck the spacecraft. And by dramatic, I mean dramatic.
More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system (via )
