downpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world · 9 months agoThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down21·9 months agoYou’re saying the same thing by a different route. It’s orbit through the galaxy eventually comes back around to us. Incidently, this is also why we can’t just send nuclear waste on a solar escape trajectory. It eventually comes back.
minus-squarejmiller@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·9 months agoIt won’t have started getting closer again before the Milky Way collides with the Adromeda galaxy in 5 Billion years, so it and anything we send on a similar path isn’t coming back.
You’re saying the same thing by a different route. It’s orbit through the galaxy eventually comes back around to us.
Incidently, this is also why we can’t just send nuclear waste on a solar escape trajectory. It eventually comes back.
It won’t have started getting closer again before the Milky Way collides with the Adromeda galaxy in 5 Billion years, so it and anything we send on a similar path isn’t coming back.