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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: chrag on May 01, 2011, 08:53:13 PM

Title: Voyager Probes near Interstellar Space!
Post by: chrag on May 01, 2011, 08:53:13 PM
Powered by Plutonium 238!! That should keep em alive till 2020...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428200820.htm
Title: Re: Voyager Probes near Interstellar Space!
Post by: atomic7732 on May 01, 2011, 08:59:35 PM
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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

lol

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?
Title: Re: Voyager Probes near Interstellar Space!
Post by: Naru523 on May 01, 2011, 09:00:01 PM
Oh NASA...