Gradually realising that in 17776, yeah, Steely Dan probably is still together
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They are (from one particular angle), uncontestably, the most significant thing humans have ever done
There are of course many ways to gauge and compare the significance of human activities. But "distance from home" can't not be one of them
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And I think there's a tragedy in here somewhere with these probes but I can't really articulate why I think that
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But I do know that the tragedy hinges on the probes being, like the light bulb, and unlike the probes in the story, inanimate
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what makes the probes more significant than our radio transmissions then? their ability to stay perfectly coherent at that range?
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The width of our radio shell is just a different way to measure. You get a bigger number out, but photons, not physical matter
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