Cut to the chase murph.
Youve yet to prove exactly why this statement, which wasnt mine to begin with, is so wrong it deserves your constant ridicule and ad hominems:
"we might be "spreading life thru the galaxy with our space probes"
Sigh.. This is me with my head down and face in my palm.
I have already explained why the statement is wrong, but I'll do it again..
Lets put it this way.. If NASA could magically go back to the time when the pyramids were being built (5000 years ago?), and launch Voyager 1, it would still not have left our solar system today. It wouldn't even be close to leaving..
Human technology is not capable of leaving our solar system yet in any reasonable human time frame.. Voyager 1 is traveling at an escape velocity high enough to do it, but that velocity is still so ridiculously slow it will take another 30,000 years before it gets past our Oort cloud.. Then another 30,000+ years before it has any chance of contaminating any other solar system. Even project "Breakthrough Star Shot" wants to use FUTURE technological advances to send a 2 Gram (0.07 ounce) probe out of our solar system in the hopes it will get to the next closest star sometime within the next 50 to 100 years.. and to do that, they're going to need a desert sized array of the most powerful lasers ever produced sucking up a significant fraction of our entire nation's grid capacity, to push it to the speeds required to get to the next closest star within a human time frame. 2 grams.. Not 2 kilograms, 2 grams.. Actually, the plan is just 1 gram.. I'm being generous.
And I'm pretty sure the project will fail. Why? Because traveling at such speeds means that every space proton that strikes the probe will hit it with enough energy to cause mind boggling damage at those speeds. My guess is that by the time that gram sized probe gets there, it won't be much more than a loose cloud of atoms.
Such comments as "spreading life thru the galaxy with our space probes" are the scientifically intellectual equivalent of a child crying because they think monsters are under their bed. It shows a stunning level of gross ignorance. It shows that the person making such comments has absolutely zero comprehension of our solar system, space, astronomy, speed, distance, etc. And yet this person argues about science all day long and they're an expert in virology, immunology, global warming, etc etc.
Pathetically comical doesn't even begin to describe it. I'm being serious, at that level, its a mental illness..
You attempted a condescending rant about how people lack your vast knowledge about where our solar system ends and where the galaxy begins. Not only do definitions differ on the solar systems boundaries, (with proof offered by NASA saying our probes left the solar system) but its irrelevent because the probes arent OUTSIDE the galaxy now travelling to it.
No, no, and no. Definitions do not differ on where our solar system ends.. The only difference is between those educated in the subject, and the public relations communications meant for the ignorant masses. Mix in a little human opinion on how technical the publication should be, and we end up with people like you arguing about things you know nothing about.
Either way, you will not find any statement on a NASA page about "spreading life thru the galaxy". What you will find are concerns about a contaminated probe (orbiter or lander) within our "planetary system" causing problems.
Voyager 1 has left our planetary system.. It did that a long time ago when it flew past the orbit of Pluto.. if we want to still call Pluto a planet, which it isn't. Would you care to know WHY Pluto isn't a planet? There's a scientific reason for that.. they didn't just decide one day it wasn't big enough or something.
Voyager 1 has also left our Sun's magnetic bubble and it is now experiencing the winds of interstellar space.. but it has NOT left our Sun's gravitational influence.. and probably never will. It will most likely never even reach the inner boundary of the Oort cloud in the next 300 years because our technology will most likely have advanced to a point where we decide to fly out there and get it for a museum..
You have been given links to NASA programs showing their extensive efforts to keep earth organisms away from our spacecraft.
Yes? So? We keep organisms out of our space probes so they don't contaminate any place we land, or so they don't cause problems with the sensitive instruments those spacecraft use. That has nothing to do with "spreading life thru the galaxy with our space probes"
Your only position seems to be semantics of your own creation presented as a pompous arrogant windbag.
I guess this is where you reply with something like " if you are so stupid to not see why Im right then youre too stupid to understand my explanation."
Your family must despise you. Is that why you are here only to condescendingly abuse people? Theyve had enough of it?
My position is that even after educating you on the subject, you have a militant objection to learning.. You're not just slow or reluctant, you seem to despise the act of acquiring information if it doesn't already confirm your own irrational beliefs.
There's a difference between stupid and ignorant.. Ignorant is when you don't know something, stupid is when you refuse to learn.. or are incapable of learning.
Instead of picking my knowledge of the subject to learn something you're ignorant of, you decided to argue. Posting stupid link after stupid link trying to prove a ridiculously dumb point that isn't valid to begin with. Instead of thinking to yourself "Hey, we have someone in the forum who knows a lot more about this subject than the average person, lets ask questions".. You decided to double and triple down and argue about something you have no knowledge about.. all because you can type something into google.
Learn to accept when you're ignorant of a specific subject.. Its why I don't take part in discussions involving art, music, sports, cooking, interior design, or other things I'm not educated in.
