V-Ger

I was thinking about the first Star Trek movie today In the movie, we had already launched a Voyager, and it somehow became super smart--smart enough to be godlike--smart enough to read--but not so smart that it could wipe away the dust and read its name properly. But it got me thinking that it really wouldn't have gotten too far from the solar system and with the technology of space travel developed by Earth, people would have gone out to the early space probes and set up little hotels and museums by them as they hurtle through space. And tourists would come and stay at these hotels which would have windows looking out at the space probe.