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Exoplanet closeups? You can use the sun as a gravitational lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gra
by philipswood 6mo ago
Exoplanet closeups?
You can use the sun as a gravitational lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
You need to be about 550 au out.
- dylan604 6mo agoVeeger is currently less that 200 AU, and it's dying. For us to build a craft that could stay alive long enough to make it to 550AU and still be functioning would take an incredible leap in technology. This plan also has a fatal flaw in that you can only ever hope to look at one thing. You can't just slew that craft to be able to line up the next target.
- johnbarron 6mo agoYou mean V'ger
- johnbarron 6mo agohttps://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/V%27ger https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/V%27ger
- burnerRhodov2 6mo agowhoa... why aren't we doing that?
- philipswood 6mo agoEven cooler is setting up transmitters and receivers at suitable spots on opposite sides of two stars.