“Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally.”

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    You’re saying the same thing by a different route. It’s orbit through the galaxy eventually comes back around to us.

    Incidently, this is also why we can’t just send nuclear waste on a solar escape trajectory. It eventually comes back.

    • jmiller@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      It won’t have started getting closer again before the Milky Way collides with the Adromeda galaxy in 5 Billion years, so it and anything we send on a similar path isn’t coming back.