Is there a high possibility that an alien civilization might discover the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2?
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nineteenthly say: No, it's very unlikely but not completely impossible.
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Athena say: No, not really.\
Space is big.
I mean space is REALLY big.
You might think it is a long way to the Apple store, but that is peanuts compared to space.
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Manuel say: I should think it would be an extremely low possibility of such a thing happening.
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Jeffrey K say: Almost certainly not. Stars are too far apart and Voyager isn't going to be transmitting signs much longer. How would any aliens ever notice it passing light years from their planet?
Most likely, we will someday pick up Voyager in one of our starships and bring it back to earth and put it in a museum.
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Starrysky say: With an "alien civilization" having any level of unknown technology able to detect an interstellar probe visiting--no guess as to the possibility. Could range from no way to easy peasy.
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Sherwood Forrester say: The only thing keeping the possibility from being zero is that it's not actually impossible. I think it's more likely that humanity will develop a drive that can get up to relativistic velocities and catch up with either Voyager long before it becomes reasonable to think that an alien civilization will find them. Remember that they've been traveling for over 40 years and neither are even a light-*day* distant, in a galaxy that's a hundred thousand light-*years* across.
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YKhan say: Very low probability in fact, space is big, and by the time it's near any possible civilization that could detect it, it will have long since run out of power and it wouldn't be producing any signals anymore.
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Ronald 7 say: At sometime
Space doesn't give us straight answers
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Raymond say: Very low probability.
However, not exactly zero.
The probes will be completely dead (silent) and internally frozen in a relatively short time. They would be totally undetectable for anyone with our level of technology. Even the radioactive core of the generator is sufficiently shielded to prevent easy detection.
First, they need many centuries before they are finally out of our Sun's gravitational reach (beyond the Oort cloud) and tens of thousands of years before they come close to a neighboring star. And even then, "close" is a very generous word (they will pass well outside that star's reach).
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tham153 say: No. A possibility, but odds against are around 1 billion to 1 in the most favorable case--and that's assuming the probes last forever
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Fred say: The probability of Voyager 1& 2 being hammered into unrecognizable dust is vastly greater than the remote probability of Voyager 1 & 2 being discovered by an alien civilization.
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Tom say: A LOW possibility---- Planets are hard enough to find, much less a small "dead" space probe.
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Suzie O say: Hold a speck of dust on your finger and let the wind blow it away.
Then go looking for it 40 years from now.
It would be much much easier for you to find that very speck of dust than it would for any intelligent race to find something so tiny and insignificant in something as vast as space.
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lia say: Fhjfd
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Robert say: Yes. Aliens land at Area 51 all the time.
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Ian say: We sent out nude pictures of ourselves and directions to our home. If an alien civilisation finds them, they will think we are a bunch of swingers
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roberto say: chances are low but still are there
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Poseidon say: Unfortunately it is probably millions to one against an alien civilisation discovering and retrieving a Voyager spacecraft.
Theoretically the spacecraft can travel through space forever and the gold disc on board can survive for possibly billions of years.
Even if an alien civilisation does find it and know how to decode the disk and directions included in it is highly likely that this alien nation will be so far from Earth that they will not be able to see Earth or have the technology to get here even if they did decipher the disk.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: I'd say it's pretty low.... it's a very tiny, dark, cold needle in a very large haystack.
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megalomaniac say: I wouldn't say a "high" possibility but I would say "a" possibility (pretty low actually but one never knows).
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Nikki say: what alien-civilization?
people on earth learned to write only about 3, 000 years ago, what are the chances of an alien people flying across the path of one 10-meter space craft, pretty much zero.
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Hindusufi say: It's very unlikely to happen.
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Brilliant "Skippy" Answer say: I would say a HIGH probability. Oh yes, its peen travellign for 40 years and onlya light day from earth. In 14,600 years that's a light year, and only a little more than our own Holostene Era.
In a million years it will have traveled 68 light years. Which covers an radius that includes nearly every star we can see in the night sky from here. It will have also revolved around the Milky Way almost a half dozen times.
In a billion years, still an extremely short period time, Andromeda isn't event that much closer a billion years from now, but It will have travelled potentially, 68,000 light years.
Now, who here is going to tell me even a billion years is a long time? But wait, it will probably hit a star or a planet by then, well don't bet on that either. Let's not underestimat the emptyness of space. I think likely that even if life is exceedingly rare now for whatever reason, itt will only be more more plentifl over time and therefore much more likely a life form will discover and approach it in the vastness of that emptty space.
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duke_of_urls say: Probability near zero.
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CarolOklaNola say: Highly unlikely, but the Universe is stranger than we can imagine.
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Acetek say: I figure that when we develop the ability to travel faster than light that we will go and scope up the Voyagers and Pioneer craft and put them in a museum
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