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More like 10,000,000,000 years at least. The closest star is 4.26 light years away. At current speeds (~65000 km/h) it’ll take 40,767,123 years to reach. _IF_ it’s going in the right direction.

It’s doubtful they’ll even find the sun in its current phase



You're off by a couple of magnitudes. Voyager travels the distance of one light year in about 18 000 years.


That suggests aliens won't find Voyager until it reaches their star system. If that's the case they probably aren't an interstellar species, and they'll never find us, or visit us. I was assuming they'd detect it while travelling through space.


They could invent Tele transportation and Time Machine which essentially the same thing.




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