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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space

April 28, 2011: More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming back a message that, to scientists, is both unsettling and thrilling.
The message is, "Expect the unexpected."
"It's uncanny," says Ed Stone of Caltech, Voyager Project Scientist since 1972. "Voyager 1 and 2 have a knack for making discoveries."
Today, April 28, 2011, NASA held a live briefing to reflect on what the Voyager mission has accomplished--and to preview what lies ahead as the probes prepare to enter the realm of the Milky Way itself.

Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space - NASA Science
 
Fascinating, are you implying through this article that the actual machine is relaying a completely original message?
 
I took it that way at first, an actual message. I think, though, it was referring to the unexpected findings the project has discovered. Maybe?
 
I wondered about that myself, if the probe was beaming back text that said "Expect the unexpected."
Then that would be pretty amazing, and a little disturbing, bit like the so called chinese curse "may you live in interesting times"
or
"It's better to be a dog in a peaceful time than be a man in a chaotic period"
 
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