downpunxx to Technology@lemmy.world • 1 year agoThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1385arrow-down13
arrow-up1382arrow-down1external-linkThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comdownpunxx to Technology@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-square@frezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish-20•1 year 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@jmiller@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year 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.