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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why don't we send satellites upwards out of the solar system? Why always through the planetary pathway?
gpt
Another point is that since the solar system lies mostly in a plane, it's more interesting to send probes along it instead of out of it. Even if we somehow managed to set something on an escape trajectory perpendicular to the solar system plane, it would be a long time before it ran into anything else.