Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline
frezik@midwest.social 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.
jmiller@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.