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xkcd #3310: Rejected Space Mission Profiles

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Although NASA agreed that Voyager 2 'seemed lonely' they decided against launching a companion orbiter mission after further measurements indicated that the spacecraft actually preferred the peace and quiet.

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[–] digdig@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] digdig@piefed.social 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't care, Pluto deserves to be a Planet. Classification be dammed.

Maybe if we find some water on it, we can get the Orange one to visit and name the water.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Don't know why you got downvoted over this. I love Pluto, too. I don't think it's a planet, but I'm not going to get fighty over it. For most of us, it's a semantics issues. I don't think I've actually encountered someone arguing that Pluto has, in fact, cleared it's orbit despite evidence to the contrary. Most of us don't care about that. Cosmologists do, though. They get to make the terms for the progress of science, which is important, but it really doesn't make sense to me to engage in any kind of personal conflict over academic hair splitting.