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Systems we built in the 1970s were able to easily pass through this though. Which doesn't seem to indicate that it would make interstellar travel impossible.
by strictnein 1y ago
Systems we built in the 1970s were able to easily pass through this though. Which doesn't seem to indicate that it would make interstellar travel impossible.
- andrewflnr 1y agoSystems from the 1970s travel at, by interstellar standards, agonizingly slow speeds. The voyagers will be exposed to hard radiation for thousands of years before they get anywhere interesting. They will not survive.
- strictnein 1y agoNot sure exactly why you're responding to me. The comment I was responding to was talking about the hot particles that would be encountered, and that their existence could preclude future interstellar missions. What level of "hard radiation" are they now getting bombarded by that we will be unable to shield systems from in far future interstellar space travel?
- andrewflnr 1y agoI'm saying the Voyager probes don't make a counter example to interstellar travel being impossible. That's still very much an open question. We might be able to develop adequate shielding to protect spacecraft from radiation over mildly geologic timespans, but we might not. I'm certain it won't be as easy as you seem to think it is. (Unless you count slinging a dead pile of former computers through a distant star system as successful interstellar travel, but that's not what most people are interested in.)
- mxkopy 1y agoImagine if a dead pile of computers that wasn’t ours arrived in our solar system, I’d call that successful by some metric
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