With all this talk of Iran and its nuclear program, does anyone care whether the United States launched a spaceship to Pluto to study it. Is it worth it? What could scientists conceivably learn about Pluto 10 years from now that will be helpful in curing this world's ills. Will they find a cure for global warming? It will most likely be too late by then. Will they find life? That's laughable. Will this space flight bring world peace? With luck, after the rocket was inspected for defects once again, it won't explode on lift-off this afternoon, vaporizing 24 pounds of Plutonium-238, the most deadly substance on Earth, turning it into aerosol plutonium dioxide for us to breathe.
Take a whiff ... cancer of the lungs would, most assuredly, be part of your future.
Fuck it, though ... I really want to know about Pluto -- maybe they'll find Plutonium or little green men ... whatever. It's good for the economy. Some scientists needed a job; and since this flight to Pluto will take 10 years, they built in their own job security.
Y'know, it would be a real cool Twilight Zone scenario if like there was a big war and all kinds of destruction and nuclear winter on Earth due to some lame-o president who thought that some god, probably Mars, told him to invade Iraq, Iran, and Syria, then, in 10 years, the probe to Pluto sends back signals that there's an advanced civilization out there on Pluto ... and nobody on Earth can receive the signal.
Philistene.
I love the space program. WAaaaaaaaaay Cool!
Posted by: lucy at January 17, 2006 05:23 PM