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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd like to think that it's possible that it was launched fast enough that it escaped the blast and Earth's atmosphere and made its way to a neighboring galaxy where it's now living lodged in some far off asteroid or some comet or planet.

Manhole cover first man made object in Andromeda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This was in what? the 50's? So it would have had to travel ~2 million light years in 70 years, so it would have had to hit several hundred thousand times the speed of light?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not going fast enough to escape the Milky Way Galaxy.