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1. eimrin+m6[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:18:28
>>belter+(OP)
> The probe is currently around 32 billion kilometers from Earth, and gets 15km further away every second.

I beg anybody to rephrase it understandingly with using some units similar to football fields. Is it possible to launch a little cheap rocket with a transmitter just to correct Voyager's position?

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2. NoZebr+b7[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:26:50
>>eimrin+m6
Okay, if you tossed a football in 1977, and you tossed it really hard, like with the force of 5,000 Joe Namaths, then the football would have traversed 350 billion football fields (that's 44 stadiums per human on Earth) and the football would be speeding across 164 more fields per second; that's 7,380 in the time I took to post this comment.

*Joe forces estimated

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