Doesn't it reappear in a couple of centuries as Veeger to consume our solar system, or have I watched too much sci-fi...?

"Voyager-1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years, even though it is moving at 45km/s (100,000mph)."

That perfectly demonstrates the loneliness of our solar system.

That's some battery Yoyager 1 is carrying to last 50 yrs, can I have one for my laptop please? Perhaps a plutonium power source can run my new car?

And to receive a signal from a 20w radio from over 17 light hours away is tremendous.

Its going to be lonely out there, the odd comet or two. The chances of it running across a stray rock (or alien craft) in all the space is remote.

I don't think we will have to worry about a Veeger, anyway Kirk and Spock will save the day if it does. :0)

Here we are talking about 1970's technology, that's still surprising mankind.

Yet some of us are still having problems with more recent technology, and whether it will stand the time of life (tomorrow or next week, that is) :O)

When I read all of the part beginning "The Sun sits in an extensive bubble of hot gas called the heliosphere" it made me feel very small, fragile and insignificant.