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[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Once both spacecraft run out of power - expected sometime after 2025 - they will continue roaming through space.

Why does thinking about this make me a bit sad?

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They will likely be the last evidence that the human race ever existed.

In 2-3 billion years the sun will leave the main sequence steady state it has been in. This will end in it turning into a red giant, and engulfing earth and destroying all record we existed.

Meanwhile, the journey of Voyager 1 and 2 will have only just begun. They will continue moving through the expanding universe for at least 3,000,000 Billion years.

[–] Supermuff@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

If we never send a spaceprobe ever again that is

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