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Hmm. Seems like you are you multiplying 5 years by 33% of light speed to come up with 1.65 light years? I apparently didn't explain well enough. The 5 years
by floxy 1y ago
Hmm. Seems like you are you multiplying 5 years by 33% of light speed to come up with 1.65 light years? I apparently didn't explain well enough. The 5 years is for the first batch of probes to gather data over an extended period of time (while in orbit around the black hole). The second set of probes is just a roundtrip "fly-by" to collect the data from the first probes and return it to earth. No reason that the return trip probes would have to be very far from the data gathering probes. Maybe you can't orbit close enough to the black hole at these speeds without getting too close to the accretion disk?
- palmotea 1y agoEven then, I think you're going to have massive distances between tiny probes moving very fast relative to each other. Maybe not 1.65 light years, but communication over Voyager's 0.00266 light years or even a much smaller distance (e.g. Earth to moon) seems insurmountable for two 1g probes. Also, the probes are in deep space, right? No solar power. Where are they going to get the energy?