So, assuming that for some reason the political will is there to send a probe that will take 3000 years to arrive, what would be the problems with a slow trip out there? What could be used as a power supply for instance? How badly would solar panels, or other circuitry decompose in a vacuum?
How would we make sure that the ground station could still talk to the probe after 3,000 years, I'm guessing that coding languages would have changed in that time.
Right, I'm off to read up on Long Now things.
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