Some people note that the chance of aliens finding the Golden Record is fantastically remote. The Voyager probes won't come within a few light years of another star for some 40,000 years. What are the odds of making contact under such circumstances?
On the other hand, what are the odds of a race of primates evolving to sentience, developing spaceflight, and sending the sound of barking dogs into the cosmos? Expect the unexpected, indeed
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Someone needs to do a simulation of where the Voyager probes will end up in lots of years... Will they get caught in orbit around one of the nearest stars? Collide with one? Get shot into some superfast trajectory by one? Not even come near?
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