alt Hacker NewsI think it literally every day… and with literally every day the odds of our surpassing ourselves on this one gets, again very literally, further away.
I think it literally every day… and with literally every day the odds of our surpassing ourselves on this one gets, again very literally, further away.
The odds are pretty damn flat.
If we launched today, 1% faster would be enough.
If we launched in a hundred years, 1% faster would be enough.
And going faster is downright easy. We can beat Voyager's speed significantly any time we want (plus or minus ten years for planetary alignment).