An Eon of Silence

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.

• An Eon of Silence was published on Tuesday, February 25th, 2003.
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