The engineering was incredible and the idea noble. Putting on my downer hat once again, I think the chances of any other living beings encountering the craft and reading the clues about the strange species that sent it hither are tiny beyond tiny. And even on the slim chance that it did wander into a solar system with an inhabited planet, much more likely it would burn up like yet another meteor than be captured intact by that species.

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Any being that were to discover it would have to so so advanced that would see their tech as magic. Closest star is something like 4.5 light years away from us...If anyone has figured out how to fo faster than light I doubt they would have any interest in us, as primitive as we are.

If you believe the likes of Hawking's and others, any life form that stumbles upon us will not see us as an ally but as a food or labor source. Thet are more likely to be like the Borg (Star Trek) or Kaylon (Orville). Likely none of us will be around to experience it.

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- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

We have a few places that look possible already in our solar system, i believe.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

To Boldly Go.... where every man has gone before .... Stormy Daniels

A very odd milestone to celebrate but it highlights the vastness of space. Given the speed its traveling at (about 38000 mph) and the length of time in space (launched in '77) being only 1 light day (as opposed to 1 light year) away does not seem like much. But it is. Voyager is about 15.5 billion miles from earth.


https://spacedaily.com/t-voyager-1-has-been-travelling-non-stop-since-1977-faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-every-second-of-every-day-and-it-has-not-yet-reached-the-distance-of-a-single-light-year-from-earth/

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

The odds are very strong against any other life form discovering our planet. It's very likely that life forms in our approximate category are extremely rare. Not just rare in physical space but rare in the dimension of time.

We can get an idea of the sweet spot that is the Earth by looking at the other planets: dead rocks.

It could be that life is extremely rare in the universe at any given time. Aside from bacteria anyway. Life on this planet that could've detected radio signals from other planets has only existed for about 0.007% of the estimated total existence span of the Earth.

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1984 300D, 138K

Wonder what the light day per gallon it would get if it ran on gas.

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