From: root@mauve.demon.co.uk   
      
   Rick Jones  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Not really.   
   If the task you want the computer to perform will take 15 years with   
   the PC of today, and 7 years with next years model, then it's a   
   no-brainer.   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
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