i love voyager 1

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Red Storm

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Was reading about how they planned it so that it would use the planets' gravity to move on out, awesome stuff.
 

rudeguy

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ok...someone find a way to make a Cartman anal probe thread with this parody
 

rudeguy

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Highly highly unlikely. Space is huge.

I thought on a long enough timeline, the probability of everything went up to 100%?

So since space is infinite and there is no limit to the amount of time it will be out there, it will get hit by an asteroid or a planet or a dog or a klingon.
 
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i hate the voyager probes. it's like a 12 year old inviting rapists on the internet. we must make it this nation's top priority to retrieve and secure the information. simply tossing high-speed bombs at them may end up scattering the information and making security impossible.

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ok, retrieval is not an option, due to the fuel requirements of a 100,000 mph u-turn in interplanetary space. i propose a catching it in a net, reeling it in to nearly zero distance from the interceptor, and detonating a nuclear weapon. at least 2 weapons should be on hand for redundancy.
 
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I thought on a long enough timeline, the probability of everything went up to 100%?

So since space is infinite and there is no limit to the amount of time it will be out there, it will get hit by an asteroid or a planet or a dog or a klingon.

in practice, entire galaxies pass through each other with very few collisions.
 

exdeath

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I thought on a long enough timeline, the probability of everything went up to 100%?

So since space is infinite and there is no limit to the amount of time it will be out there, it will get hit by an asteroid or a planet or a dog or a klingon.

The RTG will be dead and it will be useless many eons before then.

Its already almost dead and 99% shut down to conserve power after only 40 years.

Also after leaving the solar system and entering interstellar space the number of stray objects greatly diminishes. If it hasn't hit anything yet, it probably never will. Well maybe after billions of years it might get captured into an orbit before there is a collision.
 
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