a date with planet AC +79 3888
It will just miss it by 1.6 ly.
Clearly a school days date.
It's an entirely arbitrary milestone, but Voyager 1 is now more than 20 billion kilometres from our Sun. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory maintains a cosmic odometer recording the progress of both Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 progresses at about eight kilometres a second and 700,000 or so clicks a day. The spacecraft has a date …
> "Surely not even the most ardent of conspiracists would surely not imagine that NASA fabricates that much data?"
Ignoring the suspicious double-negative, they don't need to: the advanced alien civilisation that has captured the probe is faking the data to keep us in the dark while they assemble their invasion fleet.
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