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Voyager missions are 30 years old!

The Voyager’s have been blazing away from the habitat of our Solar System for the last 30 years now.. both currently around 100 AUs (about 10 billion miles) away.. they are really in some no man’s land (see the image below - courtesy JPL). I remember reading about their visits to Saturn and Jupiter with tremendous fascination back in my school days. I also remember the ‘ Gold record ‘ with details about the Earth and humans.. it was and still is, amazing to think that we have sent a message out there in the hopes that someone will grab it and make some contact. It’s almost like throwing a sealed bottle with a message in it in the ocean. Same hope, same spirit, same excitement. Most of the times, the message gets forgotten and the messenger perishes with time.. but when it reaches someone, it becomes immortal. I used to wonder how would someone interpret what’s recorded on this phonograph record. They say they have shown the position of our Sun using a set of pulsars in the neighborhood...

Longest Domain Name

Seems like the longest single word domain name is named after a welsh town - http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ This is a 58 letter domain! But this is not the longest place name in the world. That goes to one place in Thailand - 163 characters in length (I don’t want to write it here.. it will mess up my CSS 😉)
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