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by alchemist1e9 1063 days ago
I’ll just point out you are making an assumption that the craft which crashed are what traveled interstellar, however that clearly isn’t necessarily true. Isn’t it more likely those are local probes and therefore might have lower specs and high tolerance for loss for example.

I also encourage those who are very skeptical to think about how we as human would likely try to explore other star systems, in fact we already have started such projects. Our first step is to send a craft that with subliminal speed takes 100s of years, but even us we think about sending a craft with smaller probes inside it.

My point is those probes inside the transport craft, we would likely have a pretty high loss tolerance, so is it really that surprising they might crash sometimes?