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MattHwk t1_j4coqjf wrote

That would be a cool mission. A real message in a bottle / time capsule for the universe. Sadly, I can’t imagine it ever being funded unless maybe we could tag it onto another mission?

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Coffee_Huffer t1_j4cql43 wrote

Yeah it's really a cost benefit thing right now. Even then like you said there need to be multiple missions attached to it. It would have to be something we planned for far ahead.

We all seen how long the James Webb took. You would need at least that much time as a margin of error. That maybe a pretty generous estimate, but if this is a once in humanity shot. You would have to plan for things to go wrong.

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