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To: Red Badger
“by the time the probes arrive, their power sources will have long depleted, meaning they will drift through the cloud silently without transmitting data.”

My dad led the team at GE that built the RTG power plants that power the two Voyager spacecraft: the Multihundred-watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MHW RTG) is a type of US radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) developed for the Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The Voyager generators continue to function nearly 50 years into the mission.

Even worse than the Voyagers traveling without power, did you know that the sun will burn out before the California HSR project is finished and they will have to complete it in the dark?

8 posted on 09/18/2026 10:21:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LOL!


22 posted on 09/18/2026 2:21:56 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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