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Sam Wormley Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles > http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/14/474227319/stephen-hawkings-plan-for-interstellar-travel-has-some-earthly-obstacles > Houston, We Had A Problem ... Last Year > > Once the hundreds or thousands of probes leave our solar system, they > would be on their own in more ways than one. Physics dictates that > communications between Earth and the probes can't happen faster than > the speed of light. That means if one of the probes runs into trouble > a light year into its journey, then it will take a year for its > distress call to reach home. It will take another year for mission > control's instructions to reach the little craft. > > It's safe to say that in the two years it takes to get help, the > probe will have either fixed itself or died. ------------ Well, that's why you send 1000
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Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 19:07 -0500 Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 17:21 -0700 Re: Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-15 00:36 +0000 Re: Stephen Hawking's Plan For Interstellar Travel Has Some Earthly Obstacles Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-04-15 16:40 -0700
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