• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    They will likely be the last evidence that the human race ever existed.

    In 2-3 billion years the sun will leave the main sequence steady state it has been in. This will end in it turning into a red giant, and engulfing earth and destroying all record we existed.

    Meanwhile, the journey of Voyager 1 and 2 will have only just begun. They will continue moving through the expanding universe for at least 3,000,000 Billion years.

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t friction (however little in deep outer space) eventually decay the crafts way before Earth is engulfed by the Sun?

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        Interspace is empty on a level that is hard to imagine.

        There are 2.652×10^25 molecules in one m^3 of air.

        That is 26520000000000000000000000.

        In intellar space?

        The is 1.

        IE: the probe would hit more atoms in one second on earth moving at 1 m/s than it would travelling the entire age of the universe so far through interstellar space.

        Even the space between the planets is thick with matter by comparison.