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But it's also very big, and GP doesn't even specify how far of a trip they're asking about nor how small a meteorite.

"Extremely" and "very" don't cut it here. This is beyond the human ability to guess. You'd actually do at least some back-of-the-napkin math to give a real answer, and with a far enough trip, the answer may well become "Almost 100%".



And at a high enough speed, the impacts from the ~1 hydrogen atom per cm^3 in interstellar space become a major problem.


How far a trip: maybe start with the nearest star.




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