Neil Armstrong dead at 82

Outside the bubble is a new frontier in the Milky Way — the space between stars. Once it plows through, scientists expect a calmer environment by comparison.

When that would happen is anyone's guess. Voyager 1 is in uncharted celestial territory. One thing is clear: The boundary that separates the solar system and interstellar space is near, but it could take days, months or years to cross that milestone.

Voyager 1 is currently more than 11 billion miles from the sun. Twin Voyager 2, which celebrated its launch anniversary two weeks ago, trails behind at 9 billion miles from the sun.


I hope Neil's spirit is along for the ride.

Hard to believe this little technology has carried all this.

Each only has 68 kilobytes of computer memory. To put that in perspective, the smallest iPod — an 8-gigabyte iPod Nano — is 100,000 times more powerful. Each also has an eight-track tape recorder. Today's spacecraft use digital memory.
 
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Maybe his passing will be a blessing in disguise for our country. Where Americans once walked on the moon, now the only way an American gets into space, and only low-earth orbit at that, is to hitch a ride on a Russian craft.

Look how much we've changed as a country since that day in 1969 when Armstrong made that giant leap. We now have more people on food stamps than ever before, more people on disability than ever before, were unable to subdue a third world sinkhole after a decade of military action. In my workplace, a warehouse with a crew of about 15, we have one guy who is given a light workload because he says his feet hurt. We have another guy who is given nearly nothing to do, and I'm not exaggerating - he does about 3-4 hours worth of work in his 8-9 hour shift, who claims he's too mentally disabled to load boxes of potato chips into a truck, so managment just lets him hang out. He spends most of his day updating his facebook status with his smartphone.

Whenever I hear these "Angry White Man" rants about how America has gone to hell, I just laugh them off, but we really have declined as a nation. As a country we don't try to lead the way anymore, and no more Neil Armstrongs are rising to the top.
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I'm not in the US, how much do they pay for such work?
 
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I'm not in the US, how much do they pay for such work?
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Craigslist ads show that most non-skilled warehouse worker jobs pay in the range of $10 - $12 per hour. At the particular warehouse I was referring to, the pay is $19 - $20, it's a fortune 500 company.
 
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