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The best plan is to build 3 or 4 multi-functional probes now and just wait for the next interstellar rocks to come by and visit. No need to chase 3I/ATLAS.
by 1970-01-01 8mo ago
The best plan is to build 3 or 4 multi-functional probes now and just wait for the next interstellar rocks to come by and visit. No need to chase 3I/ATLAS.
- rzzzwilson 8mo agoThe "next interstellar rock" could take hundreds of years to appear. The cost of maintaining those probes could be very large, and interest in maintaining them would probably disappear quickly, humans being the short-term entities that we are.
- 1970-01-01 8mo agohttps://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/oumuamua/#:~:text=Astronomers%20estimate%20that%20an%20interstellar%20object%20similar%20to%20%E2%80%98Oumuamua%20passes%20through%20the%20inner%20solar%20system%20about%20once%20per%20year https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/oumuamua/#:~:te...