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aylmaolast Wednesday at 9:35 PM1 replyview on HN

175 years isn't a lot of time when we speak in humanity's time scale. We've been around 200,000 - 300,000 years.

That alignment will happen many more times in the history of humanity. That is to say, I don't know if a spacecraft to overtake Voyager will be launched on the next alignment or one 10,000 years from now, but it doesn't seem unlikely to happen.


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hdgvhicvyesterday at 12:09 AM

If humans survive 1000 years I can’t see any way we haven’t populated the solar system and can build probes which travel far faster than voyager, including self sufficient asteroids

Once we leave the solar system in a self sufficient way I can’t see any event which would cause a species level extinction

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