Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Something's Seriously Wrong With Voyager 1 Probe 23 Billion km Away" video.

@RichTiger7 We launched them because in 1976 we had no way of getting humans further than the moon, by 2076 we might have ships that can travel 10x further in a single day than Voyager-1 did in 100 years. Technology is ever progressing and always will be until the extremely unlikely event that we learn everything there is to know.
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To be fair in a vacuum nothing gets dusty and nothing corrodes so with the exception of some bleaching from cosmic rays, a few micrometeorite holes in the dish, and a weakening power supply Voyager-1 likely looks and operates as well as it did when launched. Which blows my mind.
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@Mannyr-bu7qv It doesn't need to be detected, you can simply head in the same direction as it, it is travelling in a perfectly straight line that it will not deviate from until it comes close to another solar system in a few million years...
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@RichTiger7 The point is that the original reason we sent them out may just become obsolete. Think of it like this, in 1886 Karl Benz points his revolutionary new car in a direction and let's it drive off at it's top speed of 4mph. Then in 1908 Henry Ford points one of his Model Ts in the same direction and lets it loose at it's maximum speed of 45mph. At some point the first car gets wildly overtaken and left in the dirt. This is a possibility with Voyager, we already have ion engines that could get to voyager in a fifth of the time it took voyager to get to where it is - in 30 years we might have spaceships that could overtake Voyager entirely.
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@Madmaxxxx1984 If a car was made from elements (carbon, titanium, gold, etc) like supercars are rather than alloys and polymers they could last a lifetime, but then once everyone had one all the big car companies would be out of business - so what incentive would they have to build supercars for everyone?
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@nagaea7409 Another few years and Voyager will be 1 light day away from us. So (Load program "rough maths") 50 years multiplied by 365 and Voyager will have travelled one light year, or just less than a quarter of the distance to our nearest neighbour, Alpha Centauri.
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@ronkerdonker3226 Not hilarious, pathetic. 2022 and we still have luddites like Chris May.
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@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer ...he writes on a video about a human-made object in interstellar space.
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@nagaea7409 Well, obviously. 21 hours is almost one full day...
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@eden892 Because Voyager would have died if it wasn't nuclear powered. There's no sun where it currently is.
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@zachbraxton1997 The Chinese invented rocketry before the USA even existed you philistine.
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