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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. throwa+z7[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:29:01
>>eimrin+m6
About 30,000 AR15 lengths per second.
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3. __alex+Ua[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:54:34
>>throwa+z7
Since the muzzle velocity (1km/s) of an AR15 is about 1/15th the speed of Voyager (15km/s), if you had a matryoshka doll of AR15s that could fire other AR15s you would only need 15 nested AR15s to shoot a bullet as fast Voyager is travelling.
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4. jjk166+5d1[view] [source] 2023-07-31 16:43:04
>>__alex+Ua
Note that this is actually how multi-stage rockets work.
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5. __alex+IY1[view] [source] 2023-07-31 20:22:22
>>jjk166+5d1
Are multi stage bullets a thing?
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