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2016.01.19

Is a decade short or long?

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カテゴリ： 10-line essays

Please excuse me for minor mistakes in grammar and expression.

Today, first of all, I'd like to take this occasion to place a congratulatory address on 10-year anniversary of New Horizons spacecraft .
Last year-end, when I browsed a few kinds of last year's top-10 news, I felt that bright news was only science news including Pluto exploration .
At first, I thought that New Horizons would take over observation in deep space and interstellar space, especially the part impossible for Voyagers built in 1970s -but I might have been wrong.
Now, an artless question:
I've read that after New Horizons spacecraft completes the whole mission, digital message for extraterrestrial lives will be uploaded.
I wonder how the message is played back if extraterrestrials discover it.
cf. http://natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/15/071500184/
Superfluously :
" New Horizon " is one of the titles of English textbooks in our country.
I've heard that some people are recalled of bitter memories of English classes at school from the name of this spacecraft.

As I confessed, when I was a junior high school student, I had interest in space exploration and Voyager programs -until I backed down after I flunked in mathematics in high school.
As a result, Voyagers flew away not only from the Solar system but also from my memory -until news came to me that Voyager 1 reached the edge of the Solar System in summer 2012 .
Last spring, I felt like searching about the current space exploration again, and I found that New Horizons spacecraft was heading to Pluto.
I realized how long I had been unaware about space exploration, but it's lucky that I didn't miss the historical moment.

Besides, I've come to be able to read website of NASA and ESA .
Even about Voyager programs I used to read the most eagerly, I read various new things I hadn't known before.
From such fact, as well as passage of time and changes of the times, I'm also amazed at long operating life of twin Voyager spacecraft.
When I was a teenager, parents and teachers and adults around me wouldn't let me use Internet or few people including me might have known how to use computers and Internet even if this website existed.
Even if I was allowed to read whenever I wanted, I'm not sure whether I could read such things back then, although the grade of English at school was good.
JPL to find that distant counter of Voyager 1 from the Sun had exceeded 20 billion kilometers while I was unaware - Keep going, deserving the name!

Talking about anniversary, last year, I found that this year is 50th anniversary of Star Trek .
To tell the truth, when I was a college student, I was a fan of Star Trek -as for this, I think I might not come back again.
As I confessed, back then, I was lodging without TV, so I enjoyed Star Trek on novelized books; somehow a local library had many books.
I remember reading various books of The Original Series and " The Next Generation ",
　But I've never read or watched " Deep Space Nine ".
　　I watched only a few times when " Voyager " series was broadcasted on TV.
　　　I didn't know about latest " Enterprise " series at all until last year.
Now, another artless question:
According to the Star Trek timeline, a space probe Voyager 6 was launched in 1999 and this is linked to an incident on Star Trek , but two spaceships with the same names and different roles might be confusing...

cf.
http://www.weblio.jp/wkpja/content/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF_%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81%E3%81%AE%E5%B9%B4%E8%A1%A8
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/slideshows/index.cfm?id=25&page=9

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