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To: RightWhale
--But, do you know it will take 5000 years to get there from here?

A heckuva lot longer than that. IIRC, the center of the Milky Way is about 40,000 light years from Earth. About 250,000,000 years away at the speed of a Voyager type probe.

14 posted on 10/19/2002 2:05:08 PM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: sigSEGV
They have to move the probe a lot faster than the Voyagers. In 1/4 billion years the probe would probably simply evaporate before it got there.
15 posted on 10/19/2002 5:37:23 PM PDT by RightWhale
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