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How much data could you store if you pinged the voyager 2 probe?


When Voyager was at Jupiter, communications allowed for a bitrate of roughly 115kbit/s. The distance from Earth to Jupiter is about 5AU. The current distance to Voyager is 100AU, so let's say we still have a bitrate of 1kbit/s. According to WolframAlpha, Voyager 2 is about 50000 light seconds away from us. Now you can do the math.




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