Is it just dumb luck that our probes (e.g. Juno, Voyager I, Voyager 2) never collide with even the smallest rocks in space? Is space in our solar system so void that the odds of a collision are so low? Does NASA (and other global space programs) have details about natural debris throughout our solar system that they can avoid collisions through navigation?
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” – Douglas Adams
Okay that’s kind of a joke quote but space IS vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big. Think… motes of dust in an auditorium for solar systems (how likely is that dust to smack into each other in the next hour, really)… and then, think of how far apart auditoriums are from each other and pretend there is NOTHING between them.
There is a LOT of nothing out there.
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