Hi,
 
PQ> On Sun, 30 Jun 13, you wrote to me:
 
PQ>PQ>>RN> Voyager 1 Approaches Interstellar Space
 
PQ>PQ>> It is always great to hear news of the Voyager craft, even the
PQ>PQ>> second time around.  (Is this not a dupe from just the other
PQ>PQ>> day?)
 
PQ>RN> It read familiar to me, too.
 
PQ> It was exactly the same as your earlier copy, 'MSGID: 1:3828/7 a4064665'.
PQ> Maybe DeeBwidge misplaced it?
 
I can't find "a4064665" in my archives.  However, I think what
happened was this:  I have three hd's in tis system.  One is a backup drive
(E:), one has XP on it (C:) and the third has W7 (G:).  In the gradual
switchover from XP to W7, which uses a different
 
PQ>RN> I believe there is still some debate by the scientific community as
PQ> to
PQ>RN> whether V'ger has actually left the Solar System.
 
PQ> To my simplistic way of thinking, they left the Solar System when they
PQ> traversed the Oort cloud.  Anything since is just idle drooling by
PQ> propeller-head NASA geeks.
 
PQ>RN> I do recall an article about it from early December of last year.
PQ>RN> Would you like me to reprint it?
 
PQ> No thanks.  Not required, as it's here still ('Voyager 1 Tastes
PQ> Interstellar Space').  I have posts dating back to December 2005
PQ> herewith.
 
PQ>RN> Also, I read many, many years ago about some scientist's theory
PQ> about
PQ>RN> the jump to outer space.  I don't recall who it was or even if it
PQ> was
PQ>RN> factual because I read a lot of science fiction back then.  It had
PQ> to
PQ>RN> do with the "space jump" and how nothing living
would survive it,
PQ> but
PQ>RN> they (presumably humans) would return to life a short time later
PQ> when
PQ>RN> the jump was complete.  I think it was called the theory of the
PQ> space
PQ>RN> warp or something like that.
 
PQ> This sounds very much like 1940s-ish SF.  (Quite similar to the hype
PQ> surrounding breaking the sound 'barrier'.)  Send more, over...
 
PQ> Cheers,
PQ> Paul.
 
PQ> ... Life is like toilet paper; we panic as the end approaches.
PQ> --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox

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