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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by mlyle on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:12PM (#40693078)
?? I think you've misread my post.

I'm saying that the fundamental things required in order to launch gram-scale interstellar probes don't seem out of reach; that largely something close to the requirements could be made at great cost today, and making a mission practical is mostly about cost optimization and economies of scale.

I think largely whether we do it in 50 years comes down to whether we've wiped out a lot of our economic output by then with strife, and whether we still consider exploration worthwhile to spend a lot of money and reources on.

Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by somenameforme on Sunday June 16, 2024 @10:37AM (#40697411)
Haha, yeah I absolutely did. Reading his post and then your response it seemed to me to be a claim that there's nothing out there to discover, as opposed to there being nothing in the way of this means of exploration.