Excerpt: "IN ITS ABSURDITY OF TIME: THE 1977 VOYAGER PROBE/S MILLION YEAR JOURNEY INTO THE VAST COSMOS, TO BECOME A ROBOTIC RELIC OF HUMANITY."
(The "Pale Blue Dot" of Earth. Image captured of February the 14th, 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1)
...The Deep Space Network on Earth may still receive data up and till 2035, to which after that date both probes may become silent as their electrical supply dwindles and their onboard equipment can no longer operate in interstellar space. While they may not be able to send and receive communication from Earth, they would still be a somewhat functioning robotic probes that will become human relics of our past, drifting for three hundred years when they will reach the inner Oort Cloud, a massive structure of floating ice pieces. Then another thirty thousand years to pass through its mass.
Yet their Golden Records will be their enduring testament, designed to remain active for a billion years, created for an extraterrestrial civilization to discover and decode. Diligently compiled by the late physicists Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. But, by that stage in our existence on Earth, our home planet will be destroyed by the Sun and, if we make it to that point, so will the human race. In its hypothetical absurdly, that even after a billion years these probes have not discovered by an alien civilization, they will continue to drift for a further billion plus years as the last remnants of human life.
To elaborate further as a simple thought experiment to Voyager's future legacy, that if these robotic probes are to remain intact for all those billions of years within the harshness of Space, as the eternity of a Universe, theoretically, begins to shift and change into vast dark cosmos filled with Black Holes. They will be our ancient machinery, a metaphor of our faded light in the darkness, devoid of any biology, beyond its gold shaped discs that once represented the human race."
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