[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18458478

Scientists working on Voyager 1 are receiving further data suggesting the probe is close to crossing into interstellar space.

The Nasa mission, which launched from Earth in 1977, could leave our Solar System at any time.

It is now detecting a sharp rise in the number of high-energy particles hitting it from distant exploded stars.

The observation was predicted, and is another indication that Voyager will soon reach its historic goal.

"The laws of physics say that someday Voyager will become the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, but we still do not know exactly when that someday will be," Ed Stone, the Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a Nasa statement.

"The latest data indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing more quickly. It is very exciting. We are approaching the Solar System's frontier."

Voyager 1 is travelling at about 17 km per second (38,000 mph), and is almost 18 billion km (11 billion miles) from Earth.

The vast separation means a signal from the probe takes more than 16 and a half hours to arrive at Nasa's receiving network.

To boldly go .....

[Ramsay]

we're getting too cocky now..once we find aliens they're just gonna kill us all anyway

[Ramsay]

with their ****in phasers and ****..spock shtyle

[Jords]

I wonder what alien poo looks like

[Ramsay]

i read somewhere that it's green

[lostalex]

aliens don't poo, they actually have very pourous skin and they both absorb nurtrients and expell waste through their skin.

[InOne]

Space travel hasn't really developed in like 30 years has it?

[Harry!]

Humans by nature are very arrogant, we assume we are the superior being in comparision to animals and every issue on earth we are the subject. I expect we would want to train extra terrestrail life too.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Harry!

Humans by nature are very arrogant, we assume we are the superior being in comparision to animals and every issue on earth we are the subject. I expect we would want to train extra terrestrail life too.

chances are the ET's would treat us the same way we treat animals we study.

That's what always makes me laugh about people that say UFO's and alien abduction arn't real because if they were real they would land on the white house lawn and say "take me to your leader"

well no they probably wouldn't. Do humans go into the jungle to animals we are studying and say take us to their leader and introduce ourselves? no, we just get on with our business and do what we like.

If there are ET's visiting earth, they probably have just as little regard for us as we do for studying new species here on earth.