Posts from Tuesday, February 25th, 2003

An Eon of Silence

Published 21 years, 3 weeks past

Pioneer 10 has fallen silent after traveling 7.6 billion miles.  Its mission started when I was just a couple of weeks past the age of two.  It will reach Aldebaran in about two million years.

I wonder if we’ll already have been there and gone.


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