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FallenJoe t1_je23ll5 wrote

Reply to comment by remorsefulDownfall in ELI5 How do scientists know probes (Like Voyager I) aren't going to get swept up in the orbit of another celestial body? by remorsefulDownfall

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Scale is really hard for our meat brains to understand. Here's a fun video that can help a bit to understand, via a medium of printer paper standards.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

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