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To: Jhoffa_
Actually, it won't get to the first of the cold, uninhabited worlds for 2 million years. Maybe a few hundred million more after that it may encounter the next and so on and so on and....
8 posted on 02/25/2003 5:02:57 PM PST by Will
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To: Will
In 2 million years, some yokel's gonna have what looks like a giant microwave crash through the roof of his trailer pod, and his insurance won't cover it, because it's an act of the Gods. He'll take the plaque on TV and tell everyone how weird blockheaded aliens tried to stick it in his butt, and all the talk shows will make fun of him. Eventually, it'll be displayed in somebody else's version of the little Ale 'E Inn.
18 posted on 02/25/2003 5:19:31 PM PST by TheLurkerX ("When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." Hunter S. Thompson)
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To: Will
There are a large number of uncharted Kuiper belt objects that it could pass. Probably won't be passing the Vulcan's home world for a while though. :)
20 posted on 02/25/2003 5:23:29 PM PST by Brett66
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