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leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

, it’d be weird if we just, sent someone out into space, and didn’t ask any questions, or try to get any follow up information or anything.

I think you kind of missed my point here.

Think about the infrastructure needed to communicate with Voyager. How many people would be capable of rebuilding it, if it would break? Given something like a major war, or a pandemic, might those people die or simply be shifted to more pressing issues? Since a sleeper ship doesn’t have an active crew, stuff might simply break on their side too. Maybe an asteroid hits the dish.

I’m not arguing that it’s impossible to build technology to keep in touch, I’m arguing that those who do the touching vanish. That’s a different angle.

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