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NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

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246 points world2vec | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source
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bbarnett ◴[23 Jun 25 16:52 UTC] No.44357672[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres

Made me think of this Brin book. The first ship to try to leave the solar system, crashes into an invisible crystal barrier. It's unbreakable.

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CamperBob2 ◴[23 Jun 25 16:57 UTC] No.44357719[source]▶
I'm confused. The plot summary talks about an impenetrable sphere around our solar system, but also says, "The main character takes part in an expedition to a newly discovered habitable solar system with a shattered sphere." How'd the character escape from our own system?
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1. pulvinar ◴[23 Jun 25 17:09 UTC] No.44357827[source]▶
It crashes into the sphere, but must have also broken it: "the only way to break the crystal spheres is from the inside".
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2. throwawayffffas ◴[23 Jun 25 18:06 UTC] No.44358418[source]▶
Yeah found it online, the ship that crashed on it broke it.