Hi! Roger,

On Sun, 30 Jun 13, you wrote to me:

 PQ>>RN> Voyager 1 Approaches Interstellar Space
 PQ>> It is always great to hear news of the Voyager craft, even the
 PQ>> second time around.  (Is this not a dupe from just the other 
 PQ>> day?)

 RN> It read familiar to me, too.

It was exactly the same as your earlier copy, 'MSGID: 1:3828/7 a4064665'. 
Maybe DeeBwidge misplaced it?

 RN> I believe there is still some debate by the scientific community as to
 RN> whether V'ger has actually left the Solar System.

To my simplistic way of thinking, they left the Solar System when they
traversed the Oort cloud.  Anything since is just idle drooling by
propeller-head NASA geeks.

 RN> I do recall an article about it from early December of last year.
 RN> Would you like me to reprint it?

No thanks.  Not required, as it's here still ('Voyager 1 Tastes
Interstellar Space').  I have posts dating back to December 2005 herewith.

 RN> Also, I read many, many years ago about some scientist's theory about
 RN> the jump to outer space.  I don't recall who it was or even if it was
 RN> factual because I read a lot of science fiction back then.  It had to
 RN> do with the "space jump" and how nothing living would
survive it, but
 RN> they (presumably humans) would return to life a short time later when
 RN> the jump was complete.  I think it was called the theory of the space
 RN> warp or something like that.

This sounds very much like 1940s-ish SF.  (Quite similar to the hype
surrounding breaking the sound 'barrier'.)  Send more, over...

Cheers,
Paul.

... Life is like toilet paper; we panic as the end approaches.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox