Way back in 1977, before we had mobile phones, before we even had the internet, NASA launched a spaceship without any people on it. Its was a bold mission. To go out into space for ever and ever, sending back signals just as long as it could.
Voyager – Putting Ourselves Out There
Then everybody forgot about it because space is really big and almost all empty and once people realized that there were no bikini-clad green princesses on Mars, no planets we could send colonists too without sending up enough water, air and food to keep them alive indefinitely, a lot of people just up and lost interest.
But Voyager kept going because, despite severe cuts to NASA, nobody told it to stop. Nobody could tell it to stop even if they wanted to.
Now, it is near the edge of the solar system, although nobody seems to know exactly where that edge is, but that’s cool, because it’s one of the things Voyager was sent to find out. Now comes the amazing bit.
After the recent discovery a few months back that interstellar place is just crawling with planets, Voyager has stumbled onto something called a magnetic highway, which is probably just the natural state of things around the edge of the solar system, on beyond Uranus. Magnetic highway sounds so cool, though, as if Voyager has found a new way to travel through space, a wave to surf, a slipstream to the stars.
It’s not a wormhole, it’s probably nothing at all but a region with a lot of strange particles moving in and out of the solar system; very, very tiny particles. What if, though, this “magnetic highway” is actually just the magnetic dirt track that leads out to the actual interstellar superhighway which does zip along at multiples of light speed, laid out through the galaxy by the superevolved Zorgon civilization 3 billion years ago, and Voyager is just a little piece of metallic debris thrown in the general direction of the road by a bunch of hillbillies on an obscure planet where the most intelligent life form is just beginning to explore the universe.
That would be kind of awesome.
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