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The "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
by rzzzwilson 8mo ago
The "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...