downpunxx to Technology • 7 months agoThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: science
arrow-up1383arrow-down1external-linkThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comdownpunxx to Technology • 7 months agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-20•7 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•7 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.