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rleendertz t1_j1v2cwr wrote

its more likely going to be picked up by future humans and put up on the 20th century history wing of the earth museum next to the talking heads of of Carl and Albert...

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BassGuyAVL2 t1_j1v63ys wrote

Assuming it isn't destroyed, some random human space traveller in the distant future might find and recover it as an historical artifact. An alien spacecraft will only bother with that dead carcass of a probe if it has salvage value. Mote likely it would be seen as just another piece of space junk to avoid.

Chances are, though, it will drift in space indefinitely and never be found by anyone, human or otherwise.

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DrLongIsland t1_j1v7fyq wrote

Assuming our own history isn't lost after some cataclysmic event, I would say future space travelers will know exactly where the voyagers probes are, and their importance for our history. They will be seen as travelling monuments, I could totally imagine a tourism business that takes you close to the voyager probes for a fly-by/tour.

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insertwittynamethere t1_j1v7gqp wrote

It goes 38,210 mph, while light speed is 186,000 miles per second. We just launched Orion at max speed of 22,500 mph to the moon. Just going to say we're still in the early stages of space travel, as well as talking about such a vastly large separation of speed between what's current with Voyager and the speed of light, so I think we got some time to see if we can't surpass and catch up to that thing. For shits and giggles, I mean, science.

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Mialayy t1_j1v8g2u wrote

Google says voyagers speed is about 65.000km per hour. So that’s about 0.02% the speed of light.

I’m pretty sure we don’t need to be faster than the speed of light to catch up.

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