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   Message 1,785 of 3,113   
   Joann Evans to Rodney Kelp   
   Re: Probe to A Centauri   
   05 May 04 01:45:01   
   
   From: bondage@frontiernet.net   
      
   Rodney Kelp wrote:   
   >   
   > Let's keep it in this galaxy for the time being since it is 100,000 light   
   > years across it.   
   > The next galaxy if out of the question. I think I read that Voyager 1 will   
   > reach the next galaxy in 30 thousand years or so. The dinosaurs could be   
   > back before then.   
      
      Um, assuming it was even headed for Alpha Centauri, Voyager wouldn't   
   reach the next *star* by then, much less galaxy....   
      
      (Unless you were headed for Andromeda [M31] at about 7.5 times the   
   speed of light, anyway.)   
      
      
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