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hmslusitania · 2 years

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I was checking dates for a different reason and came upon the information that Voyager 1 is supposed to reach the Oort Cloud in about three hundred years and I think if I ever get a chance to write for a sci-fi television show, the kind with fast space travel -- Star Trek, Doctor Who, whatever -- that's the episode I'm writing.

The year's 23-- (we'll say 2322 because) and humanity's space travel abilities have so wholly eclipsed anything imagined in the 1970s. We've got interstellar travel, we've made friends with the Centaurians, etc. The Oort Cloud is no longer theoretical, we've got frickin' maps or whatever now.

But there's still this little probe, launched full of hope and good will, and it's approaching this boundary.

And it would be a party. Star Fleet puts up their observation ships in the days leading up to Voyager 1's approach. Space tourists come to stand in front of the observation windows, waiting to watch it go by. And of course, it will have been centuries since Voyager 1 lost power, but it'll still be going even if it can't talk to us anymore.

And in the background, for the entire episode of whatever show it is, the music playing, the sounds projecting over the loudspeakers, would of course be the entire catalogue from the Golden Record. The hellos in all those different languages, the brainwaves, the whales, Johnny B. Goode.

I just think it would be nice.

#idek what this is sorry #star trek #voyager 1 #the ghost ship scribbles #as an aside #you cannot convince me that when we put humans on mars #when we've got a dome city or whatever #you KNOW people are going to go out #and find Pathfinder #find Opportunity and Spirit #find all the other probes we've sent #and the landers #and bring them in #bring them back home to humanity #clean them up #enshrine them #the day that curiosity sings happy birthday to herself is mars' first holiday #SOrry to spend my saturday morning getting weird about space probes everyone

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