This may be in'eresting to science/space geeks: Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System's Edge
The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1's crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests to scientists that the edge of the shock is about one billion miles closer to the Sun in the southern region of the solar system than in the north.
This implies that the heliosphere, a spherical bubble of charged low-energy particles created by our Sun's solar wind, is irregularly shaped, bulging in the northern hemisphere and pressed inward in the south.
Scientists determined that Voyager 1 was approaching the termination shock when it began detecting charged particles that were being pushed back toward the Sun by charged particles coming from outside our solar system. This occurred when Voyager 1 was about 85 AU from the Sun.
I'm not helping, am I?
No, particularly considering I caved and took the kids to McDonald's. Ben has a game in 25 minutes or so. It was the only way to feed them without making myself nuts. I pre-atoned by going to the good produce stand and buying food with food in it (mostly fresh fruit and salad stuffs), though.
Ooof. Gotta run. Again.
oh god. I'm in the shit.
Also, when I am eating lunch at my desk, stop interrupting to ask me dumbass questions that can wait til after lunch.
I think shrift's job wafted over to me.
Please send reinforcements.
Audible yawning at this point in training. I am reduced to hijacking my neighbour's got-a-question-right candy. And I don't even like Reese's Pieces. We so need a break. If I hadn't been checking work email, I'd have fallen asleep by now.
Doggie Bag: [link]
It's a bag. It turns your dog into a piece of luggage. With a dog head, feet and tail sticking out.
Just skipped 250 messages, in the vain attempt to be up to date....
Timelies all!
Today was just kinda..bleah. I've had worse days, but I've also had better. At least the weather's nice.
There are about ten police cars parked in front of our building. The police are ordering two people out of a van at gunpoint.
Weird.
eta: Suspects are in custody. I was standing behind our front door, and a cop was standing behind a tree about seven feet from me with his gun drawn. I went to our other door and there was a cop in our parking lot standing behind one of our tenant's cars with his gun drawn, about four feet from the door.
Jack Bauer in da hizzouse!
I'm so hopped up on sugar and caffeine that it's just shy of pain.
But at least we had a break.
