How far away would the Voyager I space probe have been away from the sun for its VGER appearance in Star Trek I movie?

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May 17, 2010, Voyager 1 was at a distance of approximately 40 AU (Astronomical Unit - mean distance of Earth from sun) That's after 23 years. Star Trek is about three centuries in the future, so times 15 is 345 years later, which is fair enough for our purposes (i.e. , we'd shorten that number, actually, because Voyager VI hasn't been launched yet).

So, 40 AU times 15 = 600 AU. 600 x 150,000,000 km = 90,000,000,000 km. Our nearest star (after the sun) is Alpha Centauri, which is 4.37 light years away.

A light year is "a little under 10,000,000,000,000 km" . So by the time indicated in Star Trek, our intrepid probe isn't even 1/10 of the way to the nearest star. So, yes, in the Star Trek universe (see the Enterprise series), we'd have had some freighter pass it up well before whenever that movie was supposed to happen.

Sources: voyager.jpl.nasa. Gov/mission/interstellar. Html .

I'm a little fuzzy on the details. By that point in the movie I was dozing off and when I wasn't dozing off my eyes were rolling around from all the impossibilities and improbabilities. For Voyager to get within a million miles of anything is wildly improbable.

The nearest star is 4 light-years away and to get within a million miles of it is like standing on Venice Beach, CA, shooting off a pistol in a random direction and having it hit the left eyeball of the real Statue of Liberty. Not gonna happen. Also the computer on Voyager 1 was about a millionth as large as the computer in your microwave oven.

A long long way from being able to talk, think, or take over the world. Even with a little souping-up by some alien race..

1 Not really. They're moving away at around 40,000 miles/hour, which is fast, but still an insignificant fraction of the speed of light (670 million MPH). In 300 years the thing would be .02 light years away from the sun.

The nearest other star is 4 light years away. It would take tens of thousands of years to get there. In ST:TMP, they said that the Voyager 6 probe disappeared into a black hole and was presumably dumped somewhere on the other side of the galaxy, where it took hundreds of years to get back.(Presumably it was outfitted with some kind of warp drive.) There's no way the probe could get anywhere substantial without special movie physics magic.

Not really. They're moving away at around 40,000 miles/hour, which is fast, but still an insignificant fraction of the speed of light (670 million MPH). In 300 years the thing would be .02 light years away from the sun.

The nearest other star is 4 light years away. It would take tens of thousands of years to get there. In ST:TMP, they said that the Voyager 6 probe disappeared into a black hole and was presumably dumped somewhere on the other side of the galaxy, where it took hundreds of years to get back.(Presumably it was outfitted with some kind of warp drive.) There's no way the probe could get anywhere substantial without special movie physics magic.

2 BTW: raw data on Voyager velocity straight from the horse's mouth at:voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly-repo... .

BTW: raw data on Voyager velocity straight from the horse's mouth at:voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly-repo....

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