Onward to Pluto!

[Space Tycoon]

Well, here's some good news anyway...

"New Horizons" Ten year Pluto mission successfully launches

Of course, this also means we're going to have to endure ten long, nerdy years of "Is it a Planet or is it a Comet?!" debates.

I say it's neither. I'd call it a "planetoid" or "mesoplanet," myself.

;)


Cool pics:




http://wallpaper-mond-mars.planeteng...Charon_800.jpg





http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...zons_durda.jpg

[sickness]

Look at it this way, Spacey: That's 10 years of long, nerdy debates where nerds will continue to withold themselves from the gene pool and there'll be that many more chicks for you to bang.

[Space Tycoon]

One would think so. Tycoons always get the final revenge that way.

[Kaeos]

Not that I am knocking the need for exploration, but I read that this project will take 10 years and cost upward of 100 million dollars.

Sounds like the war were in now. Our fiscal priorites are truely staggering.

[MPG]

Originally Posted by Kaeos

Not that I am knocking the need for exploration, but I read that this project will take 10 years and cost upward of 100 million dollars.

Sounds like the war were in now. Our fiscal priorites are truely staggering.

The main difference is that the war costs billions of Dollars in the three-digit range, while this project costs millions of Dollars in the three-digit range. That's peanuts, really, and unless NASA really manages to f this one up, New Horizons isn't going to get anyone killed.

[Kaeos]

(can't figure out the new "QUOTE: function but...)

Well said MPG - and good to see ya again!

I get that we need to continue this type of interstellar research if we have any hope of advancing to some type of future outside the confines of this planet, but it would make more sense if the affairs of the earth were actually in order for once!

[Bark]

Originally Posted by Kaeos

...but it would make more sense if the affairs of the earth were actually in order for once!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

THAT will never happen, so why wait around?

[Bokchoi Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Kaeos

(can't figure out the new "QUOTE: function but...)

it would make more sense if the affairs of the earth were actually in order for once!

Good and noble thought Kaeos, which I am sure most here would agree.

Sometimes it seems that the push to explore "out there" is driven by the idea that we need to find a place to move to once we have exhausted this planet's ability to support life.

[Kaeos]

Originally Posted by Bokchoi Cowboy

Sometimes it seems that the push to explore "out there" is driven by the idea that we need to find a place to move to once we have exhausted this planet's ability to support life.

You may have something there, but if that is the case, why aren't there habitats all over the moon yet. Bova paints a viable picture of what could be done with the moon in the foreseable future.

[Bokchoi Cowboy]

Yes, I have read the speculation and forcasting of Bova and others on what could possibly be done on the moon and other planets.

I did not make myself too clear, but what I intended to infer was the government, instead of cleaning up the act here on Earth, is probably looking at things with a "disposable planet" mentality.