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[grinninfoole]

Sadly, NASA may have to shut down the Voyager probes monitoring station, because they don't have the money to keep them open. That's very sad--it's good science, and the project will come to an end in a few years anyway. I'm a long way from the kid who was enthralled by Cosmos, but I still feel the emotional connection to the Voyager missions that Carl Sagan kindled. This is science at its purest--we're doing this just because we want to discover something we didn't, and couldn't, know any other way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4338245.stm