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by smudgy 916 days ago
If NASA can't contact it again and it has bravely gone into the great darkness alone with a piece of us, let's hope it's eventually found by a race capable of understanding the fragment of memory it carries.

If you're lost V'ger, safe travels.

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The Voyagers also carry the Golden Records, which are full of information about Earth, its species, humans, samples of different languages, and music. It also has a description of our solar system, and details how to listen to the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

So we're going to end up in an Awesome Mix Tape situation, with our lost V'ger rocking out to the music of its homeworld?
> If NASA can't contact it again and it has bravely gone into the great darkness alone

Perhaps not now, but this is definitely the case.

>let's hope it's eventually found by a race capable of understanding the fragment of memory it carries.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture showed the danger posed by your wish.

Movies aren't real
Should be a few hundred years until the Borg upgrade it I think.
A race?
I think the Asians would be able to do it.