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From: al@aurora.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: Voyager on to Uranus.
Message-ID: <382@aurora.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 17:53:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 17:53:38 1985
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> 
> I have a question .....
> 	If something the size of a voyager, presumably not radiating
> much radio energy, were to enter our solar system from an alien
> culture, is the possibility of us detecting it more than miniscule ?
> 
> I just wonder it would burn up in the sun unnoticed. If this happens,
> it would make all Carl Sagan's artistic work of a man and a woman
> rather pointless, and just a waste of NASA's budget.
> 

Not a waste at all.  As was recognized at the time, the chance of 
extraterestrials seing the work is miminal, but the work has been viewed
by thousands, if not millions, of us earthlings.