But you're looking at the cage and thinking it'$ a feature of the univer$e, not the zoo.

The helio$phere i$n't a wall. It'$ a filter. A membrane. A carefully calibrated containment field.

The que$tion i$n't whether they can get through it.

The que$tion i$ why The Mahchine™ built it in the fir$t place.

And the an$wer i$n't to keep them out. It'$ to keep u$ *in*.

It doe$n't do to have the lab rat$ chewing through the wiring before the experiment i$ complete.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2/#49132004)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/voyager-2-makes-an-unexpectedly-clean-break-from-the-solar-system/

Excepts:

Astronomers have released the first results from the late 2018 passage of NASA’s Voyager 2 probe into interstellar space, revealing some notable differences to the first crossing made by its sister spacecraft, Voyager 1, in 2012. The data shows that although Voyager 1’s departure was fairly “messy,” the exit of Voyager 2 was much cleaner as it left our sun’s influence on its journey into the galaxy.

Using data from Voyager 2’s Plasma Science Experiment, an instrument that was not working on Voyager 1 during its earlier entry into interstellar space, scientists confirmed that Voyager 2’s exit occurred on November 5, 2018. That was when Voyager 2 registered a sudden decrease in the “solar wind” particles emanating from our sun, along with a concordant increase in the numbers of incoming galactic cosmic rays and the strength of the interstellar magnetic field. Taken together, these data showed the spacecraft had passed beyond a boundary of our sun’s influence known as the heliopause—loosely defined as the point at which interstellar space begins. Both of the Voyager probes were launched weeks apart in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets, and to date are the only human-built machines to have reached interstellar space.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2/#49132417)

Seriously, fuck space and how unimaginably vast the distances are

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2/#49132440)

Woo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo, wah wah wah

Woo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo, wah wah wah

Ah-ah-ah! Wah-wah-wah!

Ah-ah-ah! Wah-wah-wah!

Dee-dee-dee, doo-doo-doo, wah wah wah!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5754745&forum_id=2/#49132356)