You did indeed now figure how long for Voyager to get there.

So ****ing cool. Just blows my mind when I think too long about the seemingly infinite reach of the universe.

The answer is 78,043.636363 years to the nearest star.

Website that shows real-time odometer readings (in KM) for Voyagers 1 & 2:

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/index.html

Note how fast it's travelling. Approx. 100 miles in 5 seconds. Amazing...

That's crazy.

i can't believe that it hasn't hit anything and blown up

that fast, that far,that many things flying all over

:shake:

Note: Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year.

Fascinating.

Once you get past the asteroid belt, the chance for a run in would be pretty small. Those who track the probe know where the larger items are.

At some point they're going to hit the big glass sphere where all the stars are imbedded.

Just think what we would know if it was equipped with up to date optics and computer systems...

Space is prettay, prettay, prettay big.

heh

...like Justin Bieber.

It has one of these but it ran out of film in 1989.

http://www.subclub.org/subjpegs/pazzazz.jpg

Wonder if it is Nuclear powered or Solar powered... I once heard that decaying uranium in the amount of a couple of tablespoons could power a car for 10k years.