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   Sander Vesik  wrote:   
   > But these were not deliberate interstellar probes, simply probes   
   > that headed off into interstellar space after the main mission was   
   > accomplished.  The problem is that the probe you can make in 5 years   
   > - as opposed to now - would probably catch up the other well before   
   > Neptune's orbit.   
      
   That seems to my untrained-in-these-matters-eyes to be rather similar   
   to saying that one should not by a PC in year N because in year N+M it   
   will be so much more powerful.   
      
   I would think that if one could make a faster probe in M years time,   
   one might simply send it to a more distant target?   
      
   rick jones   
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   it is one of "Ring Around the Rosy" or perhaps "Duck Duck Goose."   
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