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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space
Subject: Re: Neptune on the Boobtube
Message-ID: <1842@frog.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 89 19:17:00 GMT
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In article <980@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
T> In article <44600002@primerd> petert@primerd.prime.com writes:
V> Well I watched it. Just who were the dweebs that they had commenting? For the
 > most part they didn't know their head from their A[steroids].
"> At one point a caller asked what will happen to Voyager, where will it go
n> when it leaves the system.
e> The answer was that in 8,000 years it will fly by Barnard's Star, in 20,000
w> or so it will pass Proxima Centauri, and then the Oort cloud.
s> GACK!!! How bass-ackwards can you get?!!!
">
No, they're right -- the space aliens from Sirius will pick it up, gas it up
and recharge the RTG, and then wing it around Barnard's Star (or is that
Valeyard's Star...) in a gravity assist to send it back to us.

				:-)		I hope this isn't needed...

-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA 508-626-1101
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