How do long range space probes like Voyager 1 anticipate traveling through space for hundreds or thousands of years without hitting something, getting pulled into something’s gravity and crashing, etc?
In: Planetary Science
Imagine that you are strong enough to throw a baseball across the entire US. You stand in New York, and your equally strong friend stands in Los Angeles. Now on the count of three you each throw a baseball at each other.
The odds of those two baseballs hitting each other in mid flight is about the same as two objects colliding in space.
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