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andaitoday at 6:58 PM4 repliesview on HN

>despite all the modern technology progress, it would take decades to catch up.

Could you elaborate on this?


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wongarsutoday at 7:09 PM

Take decades to catch up to the location of either voyager probe. The probes have be traveling for a long time. They have also taken advantage of a rare planetary alignment that allowed them to visit a lot of planets and get gravity assists from them (converting a tiny portion of the planet's angular momentum into orbital speed for the spacecraft)

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cedillatoday at 7:04 PM

Voyager 1 and 2 are 25 and 21 billion kilometres away, respectively.

Even if we built a rocket just designed to get stuff as far away as quickly away as possible, it would take decades to catch up to where they are now.

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gautamcgoeltoday at 7:01 PM

I assume OP means that a probe launched today would take decades to exit the solar system.