Posthuman Blues

Space probes feel cosmic tug of bizarre forces

"They had been tracking the probes using the giant dishes of Nasa's Deep Space Network. By the time the two spaceships had swept beyond Pluto, they noted there were persistent anomalies in their trajectories. Every time they looked the Pioneers were in the wrong place. The effect was not large, but it was significant. Something more than the Sun's gravity appeared to have a grip on the craft."

This was noted at least a year ago; evidently it's still happening. Peter A. Gersten has proposed that the Solar System is a computer simulation and that the Pioneer craft are reaching the literal edge of "reality." Or maybe we're under quarantine, and this is our first evidence of an "invisible fence" keeping us from ruining other habitable planets in our galaxy.