Archived After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)
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Archived After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Aged 3 points 1 point 4 points (+4|-3) ago (edited ago)
The chance of Voyager meeting any kind of debris near a planet randomly would be of one in thousands, and we can use telescopes to see these things from here and make it avoid it. Outside in the galaxy? Voyager has better chances at winning in at lottery. Hell, it has a better chance of intelligent life actually finding it, realize it isn't a natural object but made by someone, and try to retrieve it. Space is very big.
[–] theoldguy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Something the size of a marble traveling at 100k mph would pretty much destroy Voyager and we wouldn't have any chance of seeing something so small and so far away.