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It's definitely sentimental, and probably more for ourselves than for anything else. I found this line from the transcript of the President's speech interestin
by LeifCarrotson 9y ago
It's definitely sentimental, and probably more for ourselves than for anything else.
I found this line from the transcript of the President's speech interesting:
> This is a present from a small distant world...
That small distant world will almost certainly be the closest thing to the probe if it is found by some spacefaring civilization.
- caf 9y agoAre you assuming that the spacefaring civilization that finds them will almost certainly have originated from Earth? JPL says they'll be at a distance that's halfway to Proxima Centauri within about 40,000 years, which is a mere instant in cosmological time.