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Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Re: Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Post by FridayoLeary »

It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf.

We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.

Re: Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Post by babylon5 »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #4

It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf. We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.

It's cold out there, why would it melt?

Re: Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Post by didacusc »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #4

It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf. We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.

No chance of it ever being hit by anything?

Re: Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Post by DecentShoes »

babylon5 wrote: post #5
FridayoLeary wrote: post #4

It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf. We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.

It's cold out there, why would it melt?

Radiation?

Re: Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Post by nomel »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #4

It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf. We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.

> I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely

It will be sitting at something like -450F. Could it really lose form!? Is the idea that all the phonons could converge to one point, shifting an atom of metal (which will happen infinitely with infinite time)? Maybe with random photons/hydrogen/whatever "continuously" adding energy?

Neat.

Re: Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

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Post by nomel »

didacusc wrote: post #6
FridayoLeary wrote: post #4

It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf. We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.

No chance of it ever being hit by anything?

> It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity.

This is read as "near zero" rather than "no chance". "Expected" is a word of uncertainty.

I think the rough napkin math would be: take the volume that the probe will sweep through and multiply it by the volume of matter in the universe/volume of the universe.

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