In 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will reach Alpha Centauri and whatever Aliens happen upon it in that time, will find a neat and tidy map to Earth. Whether they look at this map like the Dead Sea Scrolls or a map to the local Denny’s remains to be seen.
But the less you tell the entire Universe that there’s an underdeveloped planet filled with soft pink meaty wads of deliciousness that is relatively defenseless…probably the better.
When the probe gets to Alpha Centauri, we’ll either be highly developed and able to defend ourselves, or wiped out by our own greed. You pick which is more likely.
If they were actually advanced enough to come here and eat us or whatever, they probably would do it either way, because the first star you’re probably going to visit is the one closest to you. But maybe that’s just a crazy man’s logic…
You have approximately 0 chance of being right, unless aliens somehow manage to both occupy the entire volume of the universe and be massless and invisible. Unless you mean the craft will be discovered by God, and that he will then decide to eat us. This sounds likely.
Wait, isn’t Voyager 1 supposed to turn into some kind of supercloud of destructive destructiveness and come back to wage war against Earth or something like that?
Listen, all I know is that in 32 days we’re going to be attacked by brain weasels, superintelligent apes, or some sort of flesh eating space virus…and it’s all science’s fault.
I say we blame science, and tear down the observatory, so this never happens again.