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Mankind's first interstellar 'ambassador' has officially left 'home' and is now in someone elses 'neighborhood'...  

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The most amazing thing is that the Voyager 1 transmitter that is sending data back to the Earth, and that we're still receiving every single day from 12 BILLION miles away at a rate of 160 bits per second, has a power output of only 23 watts. And it's still working 36 years after it was launched.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-277




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