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By the time the probe gets off the ground and begins a long stern chase of the interstellar object, many decades will have passed by when (if!!) the probe ever
by simonblack 5y ago
By the time the probe gets off the ground and begins a long stern chase of the interstellar object, many decades will have passed by when (if!!) the probe ever catches up with Oumuamua. And how long will it take at lightspeed for the data to reach Earth from way out there?
By then the major space exploration nation in the world could well be Indonesesia. And who knows if the space nation then would even be interested in capturing data from a probe nearly a century old.