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Because the program literally depended on the planets aligning a certain way that they won't align again until about 2150. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage
by psunavy03 3y ago
Because the program literally depended on the planets aligning a certain way that they won't align again until about 2150.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#History
- xattt 3y agoStart getting the probes designed now.
- tivert 3y ago> Start getting the probes designed now. That makes absolutely no sense. Even someone who thinks technological progress will slow greatly in the future would acknowledge that something designed today will likely be obsolete and unbuildable in 127 years. I mean, probably *every* *single* electronic component in a design made today will almost certainly have been EOL for over a century by the time 2150 rolls around.
- xattt 3y agoI say it in jest, but I am speaking to the experience of the JWST. Initial designs were proposed starting in 1996 and didn’t get completed until mid-2010s after many, many delays. It would be no surprise to anyone to say the 2150 probes will have technologies that haven’t been invented yet, and won’t for some time.
- throwaway888abc 3y agoMake sense, thanks, fuel, gravity, not easy feat