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That's a strangely high bar. As if Voyager had some nonnegligible effect outside of the Solar system.
by yreg 3y ago
That's a strangely high bar. As if Voyager had some nonnegligible effect outside of the Solar system.
- jacquesm 3y agoIf something like Voyager would arrive from outside our Solar system it would be the event of the millenium.
- kadoban 3y agoThere's every possibility that neither Voyager will ever arrive anywhere ever again. If they do, it's going to be after our galaxy collides with another, and the place they arrive at may not even exist yet. https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-distant-future https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-dist...
- lIl-IIIl 3y agoWhile the Milky Way galaxy is on course to collide with Andromeda galaxy in 4.5 billion years, that will not make Voyager's arrival anywhere more likely, since the stars are far enough apart that they will not be affected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_...
- kadoban 3y agoMy understanding is that it just makes it less predictable once that happens. We don't know exactly where all those stars are, and it gets chaotic once they start interacting. It probably is a _bit_ more likely as well, you suddenly have ~2x the stars near you and some of them are moving much faster relative to you, it's just not a sure thing by any means.
- yreg 3y agoWell so would be picking up radio signals like the ones we emit. And while the probability that someone will be able to pick these signals up is low, it is still almost infinitely greater than that of someone finding one of the Voyagers out there.