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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours 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] 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 15 hours 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?