Breathes there a man with soul so dead... that he cannot thrill to the idea of space exploration? No, I don't think the post author, david t, is the least "bit silly" to feel to feel pride and pleasure in certain accomplishments in which he had no hand. One has to wonder, though, about people who think a comments-thread for a post about the splendid Cassini-Huygens mission is the place to exhume their old arguments about Milosevic, etc. (Less surprising is the obligatory tsk'ing about the dreadful immorality of putting resources into space exploration when Eden has not yet been restored on Earth.)


Posted by Moira Breen at 16 January 2005 08:08 AM
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Stick around a bit at Harry's Place.

Everthing, ultimately, has a relevance to the travails of former Yugoslavia. So it seems.

Posted by: David T on January 16, 2005 12:25 PM

Frankly, I'm skeptical of this whole "Titan" thing. Just look at that first photograph from the surface. Looks exactly like Mars. Oh, and then they colored it, so now it's orange, and it looks even more like Mars. I think they passed Mars and said, "To hell with this. Let's just stop here. Who'll know the difference?"

(I was hoping for towering ice cliffs, or something. Anything. The solar system is boring.)

Posted by: Angie Schultz on January 16, 2005 12:58 PM

David: oh yes - one of the reasons I'm compelled to perversely follow certain comment threads.

Angie: Mars schmars. Utah.

Posted by: Moira on January 16, 2005 02:07 PM

No way it's Mars -- you can't see any McDonalds signs. Eveyone knows those are all over Mars.

Posted by: Jonathan on January 16, 2005 11:09 PM

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