Vger will come back, eventually.
I don't think it will. What makes you say so? https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/54983/154333
It's a reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nothing to do with physics.
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
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#73Obligatory: https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
Also: https://xkcd.com/1189/
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#74Vger will come back, eventually.
It would be cool if we eventually develop the technology to send out a probe to go out there and fetch the Voyager probes, so that we can put them in a museum. (Presumably with one of the siblings of the fetching probe going further and faster than the Voyager probes ever managed)
That would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another intelligent civilization be in their flight path they can learn of our existence and some of our culture.
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#77In a nice coincidence: The end of vger.kernel.org (https://lwn.net/Articles/954783/)
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#78Voyager 1 is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Additionally, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a response. I’m guessing “hotfix” commits don’t exist in this domain
The use of "additionally" is weird here. A full roundtrip is 45 hours. It doesn't take 22.5 + 45 hours to receive a response. 45 = 22.5 + 22.5.
Should it have been additively?
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be cool if we eventually develop the technology to send out a probe to go out there and fetch the Voyager probes, so that we can put them in a museum. (Presumably with one of the siblings of the fetching probe going further and faster than the Voyager probes ever managed)
That would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another intelligent civilization be in their flight path they can learn of our existence and some of our culture.
A time when we were too young to conceive of the Dark Forest.