john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) (08/28/89)
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 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu