On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:03 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> scott wrote:
>>> I mean isn't the transmitter on Voyager or whatever about to go out of  
>>> range, and that's only just left our own solar system!
>>  You mean the one that has been running off batteries for 20 years?  
>> Yeah, likely.
>
> What, no solar power?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Outersolarsystem-probes-4407b.svg

At that distance, solar panels would just be dead weight.



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