Today in 2012, Voyager 1 officially leaves our Solar System and enters interstellar space.
Currently, the probe is 15 Billion miles away from Earth, making it the furthest man made object ever sent into the cosmos. It will continue to send back data to NASA until 2025 when it’s onboard fuel cells run dry. It will then drift on through space for the rest of time.
Onboard, it is carrying a solid gold disc that contains:
• Greetings in 55 languages from ancient Sumerian to Modern English, Mandarin and even Welsh.
• A collection of the earth sound including rain, thunder to a baby’s cry and a jet engine.
• 90 minutes of music from traditional folk music from around the world to classical greats like Mozart and Beethoven to Chuck Berry.
• 116 images of earth, humans, nature, animals and our Solar System are also included.
As the disc is solid gold, it shouldn’t decay meaning the information will be preserved for eternity, this could well be the only artefact in the distant future that humans ever existed if we don’t make it for whatever reason.
I did (pardon the pun) also find it a bit far fetched but after a google search I found the following. I'm now fascinated by both the Voyager programmes, I didn't realise they were launched such a long time ago back in 1977.
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 164.0 AU (24.5 billion km; 15.2 billion mi) from Earth as of August 2024, it is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
Voyager 1's trajectory seen from Earth, diverging from the ecliptic in 1981 at Saturn and now heading towards the constellation Ophiuchus.
NASA website shows their real time locations updated every 5 minutes.
From the department of “They sold that for how much?!” comes today’s story, about an Italian artist who, for the cool price of €15,000 ($18,300), recently auctioned an artwork that is… well, nothing.
The 67-year-old artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial sculpture”—which is to say that it doesn’t exist.
To be fair, the artist might disagree on conceptual grounds. For Garau, the artwork, titled lo sono (which translates to “I am”), finds form in its own nothingness. “The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that nothing has a weight,” he told the Spanish news outlet Diario AS. “Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.”
The pre-sale estimate valued the piece between €6,000-9,000, according to AS, but competing bidders pushed the price tag to €15,000.
The lucky buyer went home with a certificate of authenticity and a set of instructions: the work, per Garau, must be exhibited in a private house in a roughly five-by-five-foot space free of obstruction.
It's a wonderful building and only a 5 minute drive from my house and yet i've only been there once (inside) and that was with school , i've been a couple of times but it was always closed pre internet , what struck me was the old graffiti on the bridge , Tom was ere 1806
It's a wonderful building and only a 5 minute drive from my house and yet i've only been there once (inside) and that was with school , i've been a couple of times but it was always closed pre internet , what struck me was the old graffiti on the bridge , Tom was ere 1806
@stokefc we need you to visit the place with your spirit level and take a photo of the bubble as that fireplace definitely looks wonky to me
The United States Energy Department has noted that nuclear energy helps to keep the air in America clean and reported that the country avoided more than 471 metric tons of carbon emissions in 2022. That was equal to removing 100 million cars from the road!
Simulation of a trip around Earth at the speed of light will completely blow you away.
A simulation depicting how a trip around Earth would look like if it were taken at the speed of light has shocked millions of viewers online.
You've probably heard people say they can do things 'lightning quick' or at 'light speed', but have you ever sat back and wondered just how quick that would be, or is it just me?
Well firstly, it's impossible to move at the speed of light, despite how good you may think your ninja skills may be and secondly, if you could, there is a quantifiable speed that it moves at, that humans haven't been able to achieve yet.
Strap in and get your science hats on, folks.
The speed that light travels at doesn't change, and it is known as the upper limit for the speed that matter or energy can travel through space, according to the special theory of relativity.
It is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second.
The speed is almost unfathomable to most, so to see it in a video has been eye-opening to many.
At its widest point (the equator), our world is 24,901 miles (40074.275 km) in circumference, so how would it look to do a round of that, at the speed of light?
Starting in New York and travelling in a southwesterly direction at first, the first two frames are of the Pacific Ocean, followed by one frame of Brisbane, Australia, before two frames of the Indian Ocean.
The sixth frame is in the Saudi Arabian desert, followed by one frame in Zimbabwe, Africa, before finally ending up in New York on the final frame, completing the circle.
We think that the Saudi Arabia frame may be an error on their part, as the trajectory doesn't show it passing the Middle East, but the journey it takes and just how many of the frames are water highlights how quick the speed of light is, and how much of our planet is made of water.
Users flocked to the comments to share their thoughts, as one pointed out: "What’s even crazier is that even with how fast light is, the sun is so far away that it still takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach Earth."
Another said: "The fact that Pacific ocean took 2 frames tells a lot on how massive that thing is."
And a third shared: "Now imagine traveling this fast for a billion years straight. And still not being able to each the edge of the universe. Insane."
In the 18th Century, Bellows could be found alongside most waterways in Britain. They were used to resuscitate drowning casualties and everyone working in that area had to know how to use them and where to find them.
You would think that the treatment would be to use the bellows to push air into the lungs once you’d cleared the airway but oh no, The treatment was to blow tobacco smoke through a tube into the victims rectum and then push it through with the bellows.
They even made a little rhyme to help you remember it.
"Tobacco glyster (enema), breathe and bleed. Keep warm and rub till you succeed. And spare no pains for what you do; May one day be repaid to you."
With its summit a dizzying 29,032 feet (8,849m) above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. Everest, however, is not its only name. Straddling the border between Nepal and Tibet, the mountain is known as Sagarmatha in Sanskrit, meaning "peak of heaven", and Chomolungma in Tibetan, meaning "goddess of the valley". It was named Everest in 1865 after the British surveyor general of India, Sir George Everest.
Stingy Jack is an Irish folk tale about a man who tricked the Devil twice. The first time he drunk with the Devil but had no intention of paying the bar bill. Jack convinced the Devil to turn into a coin to pay, Jack instead took the Devil coin and put it in his pocket with a silver cross to prevent the Devil from escaping.
Jack allowed the Devil to change back providing he left Jack alone for 1 year. A year later, Jack tricked the Devil to climb a tree to get an apple, Jack trapped the devil in the tree by carving a cross in to the bark. Jack let the Devil down from the tree with the promise that he would leave Jack alone for 10 years.
The Devil agreed but Jack died two years into his deal, God refused Jack entry into heaven for being deceitful, the Devil refused Jack into **** because of the deal he made.
He did give Jack a single burning coal to light his way as he was doomed to walk the darkness for eternity. Jack is said to have carved a turnip into a lamp to save his hand from burning. He became known as Jack of the Lantern and eventually Jack O’Lantern.
Irish people carve faces into turnips to keep Jack at bay and away from their home, in Scotland turnips are also used and in England it’s traditional to use beats for carving.
As the Irish,Scots and English spread across the Atlantic they found that the now traditional pumpkin was better to carve rather than a turnip and the tradition continues today.
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Today in 2012, Voyager 1 officially leaves our Solar System and enters interstellar space.
Currently, the probe is 15 Billion miles away from Earth, making it the furthest man made object ever sent into the cosmos. It will continue to send back data to NASA until 2025 when it’s onboard fuel cells run dry. It will then drift on through space for the rest of time.
Onboard, it is carrying a solid gold disc that contains:
• Greetings in 55 languages from ancient Sumerian to Modern English, Mandarin and even Welsh.
• A collection of the earth sound including rain, thunder to a baby’s cry and a jet engine.
• 90 minutes of music from traditional folk music from around the world to classical greats like Mozart and Beethoven to Chuck Berry.
• 116 images of earth, humans, nature, animals and our Solar System are also included.
As the disc is solid gold, it shouldn’t decay meaning the information will be preserved for eternity, this could well be the only artefact in the distant future that humans ever existed if we don’t make it for whatever reason.
15 Billion miles away from Earth
Seriously? Wow.
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 164.0 AU (24.5 billion km; 15.2 billion mi) from Earth as of August 2024, it is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
Voyager 1's trajectory seen from Earth, diverging from the ecliptic in 1981 at Saturn and now heading towards the constellation Ophiuchus.
NASA website shows their real time locations updated every 5 minutes.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-they-now/
The NASA main website for the Voyager programme.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
From the department of “They sold that for how much?!” comes today’s story, about an Italian artist who, for the cool price of €15,000 ($18,300), recently auctioned an artwork that is… well, nothing.
The 67-year-old artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial sculpture”—which is to say that it doesn’t exist.
To be fair, the artist might disagree on conceptual grounds. For Garau, the artwork, titled lo sono (which translates to “I am”), finds form in its own nothingness. “The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that nothing has a weight,” he told the Spanish news outlet Diario AS. “Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.”
The pre-sale estimate valued the piece between €6,000-9,000, according to AS, but competing bidders pushed the price tag to €15,000.
The lucky buyer went home with a certificate of authenticity and a set of instructions: the work, per Garau, must be exhibited in a private house in a roughly five-by-five-foot space free of obstruction.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-artist-auctioned-off-invisible-sculpture-18300-literally-made-nothing-1976181
https://www.exploringgb.co.uk/blog/little-moreton-hall-tudor-gem-in-cheshire
Nuclear Energy keeps our air clean
The United States Energy Department has noted that nuclear energy helps to keep the air in America clean and reported that the country avoided more than 471 metric tons of carbon emissions in 2022. That was equal to removing 100 million cars from the road!
A simulation depicting how a trip around Earth would look like if it were taken at the speed of light has shocked millions of viewers online.
You've probably heard people say they can do things 'lightning quick' or at 'light speed', but have you ever sat back and wondered just how quick that would be, or is it just me?
Well firstly, it's impossible to move at the speed of light, despite how good you may think your ninja skills may be and secondly, if you could, there is a quantifiable speed that it moves at, that humans haven't been able to achieve yet.
Strap in and get your science hats on, folks.
The speed that light travels at doesn't change, and it is known as the upper limit for the speed that matter or energy can travel through space, according to the special theory of relativity.
It is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second.
The speed is almost unfathomable to most, so to see it in a video has been eye-opening to many.
At its widest point (the equator), our world is 24,901 miles (40074.275 km) in circumference, so how would it look to do a round of that, at the speed of light?
Wonder no more.
Starting in New York and travelling in a southwesterly direction at first, the first two frames are of the Pacific Ocean, followed by one frame of Brisbane, Australia, before two frames of the Indian Ocean.
The sixth frame is in the Saudi Arabian desert, followed by one frame in Zimbabwe, Africa, before finally ending up in New York on the final frame, completing the circle.
We think that the Saudi Arabia frame may be an error on their part, as the trajectory doesn't show it passing the Middle East, but the journey it takes and just how many of the frames are water highlights how quick the speed of light is, and how much of our planet is made of water.
Users flocked to the comments to share their thoughts, as one pointed out: "What’s even crazier is that even with how fast light is, the sun is so far away that it still takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach Earth."
Another said: "The fact that Pacific ocean took 2 frames tells a lot on how massive that thing is."
And a third shared: "Now imagine traveling this fast for a billion years straight. And still not being able to each the edge of the universe. Insane."
In the 18th Century, Bellows could be found alongside most waterways in Britain. They were used to resuscitate drowning casualties and everyone working in that area had to know how to use them and where to find them.
You would think that the treatment would be to use the bellows to push air into the lungs once you’d cleared the airway but oh no, The treatment was to blow tobacco smoke through a tube into the victims rectum and then push it through with the bellows.
They even made a little rhyme to help you remember it.
"Tobacco glyster (enema), breathe and bleed.
Keep warm and rub till you succeed.
And spare no pains for what you do;
May one day be repaid to you."
Dr Houlston 1774
With its summit a dizzying 29,032 feet (8,849m) above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. Everest, however, is not its only name. Straddling the border between Nepal and Tibet, the mountain is known as Sagarmatha in Sanskrit, meaning "peak of heaven", and Chomolungma in Tibetan, meaning "goddess of the valley". It was named Everest in 1865 after the British surveyor general of India, Sir George Everest.
Jack of the Lantern.
Stingy Jack is an Irish folk tale about a man who tricked the Devil twice. The first time he drunk with the Devil but had no intention of paying the bar bill. Jack convinced the Devil to turn into a coin to pay, Jack instead took the Devil coin and put it in his pocket with a silver cross to prevent the Devil from escaping.
Jack allowed the Devil to change back providing he left Jack alone for 1 year. A year later, Jack tricked the Devil to climb a tree to get an apple, Jack trapped the devil in the tree by carving a cross in to the bark. Jack let the Devil down from the tree with the promise that he would leave Jack alone for 10 years.
The Devil agreed but Jack died two years into his deal, God refused Jack entry into heaven for being deceitful, the Devil refused Jack into **** because of the deal he made.
He did give Jack a single burning coal to light his way as he was doomed to walk the darkness for eternity. Jack is said to have carved a turnip into a lamp to save his hand from burning. He became known as Jack of the Lantern and eventually Jack O’Lantern.
Irish people carve faces into turnips to keep Jack at bay and away from their home, in Scotland turnips are also used and in England it’s traditional to use beats for carving.
As the Irish,Scots and English spread across the Atlantic they found that the now traditional pumpkin was better to carve rather than a turnip and the tradition continues today.
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-history-of-the-jack-o-lantern-dz7azq/