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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Unaware of their significance or rarity or feebleness or distance or unrecoverability
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It bears noting at this point that Pioneer 9 and Pioneer 10 are both, right now, in reality, lost.
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Unlike, say, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2:https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/intermission-part-2 …
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tbh I find 'humanity decided to mostly go back technologically to the 2000s' one of the most depressing parts of 17776
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That and the fact that there are no more children and nobody can die
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i hadn't considered that people can't die even if they *want* to, yeah
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Either that, or most of the eight billion people decided that 16,000 years of THIS was preferable to stopping, which might be worse
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But the scenario is so contrived and unreal that it verges on myth or satire
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yeah definitely not a *plausible* future (and the 500kmph limit is obviously there to 'stop' interstellar exploration) but still horrifying
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