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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sooo Question.
they want this thing to fly through the Oort cloud, which IIRC is the birthplace of comets a huge intergalactic ice field.
So we're going to try to navigate a unguided sailing ship through this field of randomly movie ice bits that are influenced by the Suns gravity. And then we're going to try to shoot a laser through it to send back data.
I'm not a smart man, but this seems to be almost an impossible theory.
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You're just too much of a Star Wars fan. The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid are actually very good. Things just are not very close together. Your chances of hitting anything is very small.
The bigger concern is interstellar radiation. Nasty blasts knock intrastellar probes off course all the time. We don't really know what it's like in interstellar space, but I would guess its worse.