> okket: A remote civilisation that has no problem waiting hundred thousand years or longer for a probe to reach its destiny. > pavlov: At 44 km/s, the object

> okket: A remote civilisation that has no problem waiting hundred thousand years or longer for a probe to reach its destiny. > pavlov: At 44 km/s, the object is travelling slightly faster than Pioneer 10. Seems too slow for an interstellar probe? > QAPereo: A probe should show signs of acceleration, not freefall... unless you anted the probe to be stealthy. That is a disturbing thought. Of course it has FTL, but they want to observe us for an extended period in our natural state, not riled up by an FTL object moving through our system and parking in orbit. They also wanted to see how long it would take us to detect it. I'm not sure how well we did.