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It would be cool if we eventually develop the technology to send out a probe to go out there and fetch the Voyager probes, so that we can put them in a museum.
by WJW 3y ago
It would be cool if we eventually develop the technology to send out a probe to go out there and fetch the Voyager probes, so that we can put them in a museum.
(Presumably with one of the siblings of the fetching probe going further and faster than the Voyager probes ever managed)
- snuxoll 3y agoThat would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another intelligent civilization be in their flight path they can learn of our existence and some of our culture.
- renewiltord 3y agoA time when we were too young to conceive of the Dark Forest.
- giantrobot 3y agoIf aliens are sending a battle fleet to destroy Earth because there's life here, they were on the way long before we emitted and radio waves. Earth has been broadcasting the existence of life for a billion years.
- renewiltord 3y agoI knew there was a reason to hate cyanobacteria. Those fuckers gave it away with the O2 in the first place.
- eichin 3y agoAlternatively, preserve the mission and build a museum in-place around it :-)
- WalterBright 3y agoWe must not allow humans to jeopardize the mission.
- lmm 3y agoThat was hardly their primary purpose, and presumably long before we were in a position to retrieve the Voyagers we would have sent faster probes that would have already overtaken them.
- eichin 3y agoReminds me of ... I think it was All Your Bridges Rusting? (Niven) Mostly about teleportation, but it's basically the whole "if you bring a 747 back to 1912, can you do anything at all for the Titanic" thought experiment. (So this could be surprisingly difficult even with major propulsion leaps...)