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What if you have a fleet of thousands of these acting as a cluster? All of them would have some limited radio capability to communicate with other nearby probes
by pavlov 5y ago
What if you have a fleet of thousands of these acting as a cluster? All of them would have some limited radio capability to communicate with other nearby probes. Some would carry additional instruments to collect data near the star, and others would have higher-powered radios to send data back to Earth.
It doesn't sound like you could fit this kind of system in the size of a microchip, but what do I know, I'm just a random Internet speculator.
- steve_mcdougall 5y agoLiterally building subspace relays. My nerd-y senses are tingling.
- ck2 5y agoWhy stop at thousands? If simple and small enough, railgun grains-of-rice sized probes at every "near" object in the visible galaxy and create a million node network to relay and repeat back to earth. Get the cost down to $100 each. Time the launching to say once a day so they travel behind each other as repeaters. Then they only need small transmitters/receivers with small power sources.