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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. kridsd+2A1[view] [source] 2023-07-31 18:21:17
>>eimrin+m6
Wolfram Alpha just told me that it's 800,000 laps around Earth's equator away. You can probably compare that to a very long airplane ride (about a 45 hour flight) done nearly a million times.

If that's not enough for human scale understanding, it's gone the same distance Earth goes in its orbit in 34 years.

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