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by didacusc 215 days ago
No chance of it ever being hit by anything?
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> It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity.

This is read as "near zero" rather than "no chance". "Expected" is a word of uncertainty.

I think the rough napkin math would be: take the volume that the probe will sweep through and multiply it by the volume of matter in the universe/volume of the universe.

So a virtual impossiblity? That's a finite improbability rather than an infinite improbability. I think I need a fresh cup of really hot tea.
Space is well named.
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