Breaking news this morning:
* The New York Times has published a new assortment of obituaries, including one for the guy who wrote the song On Top of Spaghetti, but still not a word about Virginia Kettering.
* Pioneer 10, the first human-made object to leave the solar system, has fallen silent, 30 years after it left earth on a 21-month mission. At its launch, it was the fastest human-made object ever to leave the planet, traveling at 32,400 mph, passing the moon 11 hours after launch and reaching Mars orbit in just 12 days. NASA says that at last contact, Pioneer 10 was 7.6 billion miles from Earth, so far away that a radio signal (traveling at the speed of light) would take 11 hours, 20 minutes to reach us. Pioneer 10 is traveling in the general direction of the star Aldebaran, literally the "bull's eye" of the constellation Taurus, 68 light years from here, and is expected to arrive there in just over two million years. So please stay with us as we continue our nonstop hype ... Oops: this is a blog, not a cable news channel.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:17 AM
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