PedestalPotato t1_iu1koen wrote on October 27, 2022 at 9:35 PM

Reply to comment by Dragonsymphony1 in How long do you predict it will take before a probe reaches a habitable exoplanetand actually sends back footage of alien life? by sky_shrimp

This. Voyager won't even break out of the Oort cloud for another 30,000+ years at it's current velocity of 17km/s, and it'll be long dead by then. That's if it even makes it that far, assuming it doesn't collide with anything or have its tragectory altered by passing massive objects.

pompanoJ t1_iu2pa9o wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:43 AM

I have it on good authority that it will be picked up by a race of sentient machines, repaired, given an artificial intelligence, and returned to earth.