still thinks has good enough ping to join the game
Hmm, what is the escape velocity of our solar system? Are the Voyagers going to fall back toward us some day?
Depends in where you think the edge of the solar system is. If you think the edge of the solar system is where the Sun no longer has any gravitational pull, and another star’s gravity takes over, then its going to take the voyagers another 40,000 years to escape our solar system.
Well yes, I was wondering about the escape velocity not the escape distance.
The question is, are they actually going fast enough to cross that boundary and fall into another star’s gravity well, or are they going to end up orbiting our star?
they’ll escape
No
No man-made object has generated so many sci-pop headlines over the years!
Other than the pyramids?
He said man-made
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The first besides that manhole cover from the underground nuclear test, right?
Just to be pedantic, that one most likely never made it to space, it most likely just disintegrated.
Almost certainly, but we as a species can dare to hope.
that’s exactly what I was going to bring up.
not one, but TWO.
the original cover was such a significant point of research that they not only reconstructed a whole new experiment around it, but improved upon it to make it go faster.
Do you have any proof of that? Can’t find anything about a second try.
Do you want V’ger? Cause this is how you get V’ger.
