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If you're traveling as fast as voyager 1, it would take over 2 million years to get there.
by pg_bot 3y ago
If you're traveling as fast as voyager 1, it would take over 2 million years to get there.
- Aachen 3y agoThe Voyagers didn't have today's ion engines. I don't know how much that gains us, though, as the main speed gain was by leeching momentum from planets' momenta, rather than from the hydrazine thrusters it carries
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoWould it melt before then? Interstellar space is extremely thin, on the order of 1 atom per cubic centimeter (estimates vary). But, as we learned when Voyager finally left the solar system a few years ago, it is hot as hell. More than 54,000 degrees F according to National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/interstellar-space-weirder-than-expected-nasa-voyager-2-reveals https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/interstel...