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If an alien species can spot something as tiny as Voyager but doesn't notice our activity on Earth which is just a stone's throw away, I doubt they're a threat.
by onion2k 2y ago
If an alien species can spot something as tiny as Voyager but doesn't notice our activity on Earth which is just a stone's throw away, I doubt they're a threat.
If an alien species finds Voyager in 10,000 years and tracks it back to our planet, they'll find some interesting remains of our civilization.
- shash 2y agoMore like 10,000,000,000 years at least. The closest star is 4.26 light years away. At current speeds (~65000 km/h) it’ll take 40,767,123 years to reach. _IF_ it’s going in the right direction. It’s doubtful they’ll even find the sun in its current phase
- The_Colonel 2y agoYou're off by a couple of magnitudes. Voyager travels the distance of one light year in about 18 000 years.
- iamgopal 2y agoThey could invent Tele transportation and Time Machine which essentially the same thing.
- onion2k 2y agoThat suggests aliens won't find Voyager until it reaches their star system. If that's the case they probably aren't an interstellar species, and they'll never find us, or visit us. I was assuming they'd detect it while travelling through space.
- konschubert 2y agoWhy so pessimistic.
- onion2k 2y agoThe numbers are against us.