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1 million miles per day is an insane figure


You do it every day! The Earth itself moves faster than Voyager -- 1.6 million miles per day.


The tiny difference here is that we made Voyager.


Another difference is that we sent Voyager traveling orthogonally to Earth's orbit. Well, not exactly, but you get the point...

> Voyager 1 is now leaving the solar system, rising above the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 35 degrees at a rate of about 520 million kilometers (about 320 million miles) a year. Voyager 2 is also headed out of the solar system, diving below the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 48 degrees and a rate of about 470 million kilometers (about 290 million miles) a year.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fact...


Doesn’t count. Earth has gravity. It’s immense. It has an atmosphere. Voyager is a tiny little man made craft flying out - naked - into the unknown.


And yet it's a vanishingly small distance on the scale of the universe. Mind bending.


Exactly - that's the part thats truly amazing. 30000 years to the outside of the oort cloud - thats still in our system (border of it) - not even scratching the universe in the faintest.




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