The fact that it's 2021, we can build fully autonomous vehicles, and we're not sending them to every interesting spot in the solar system is one of the many frustrations that together fill up my day.https://news.arizona.edu/story/methane-plumes-saturns-moon-enceladus-possible-signs-life …
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It cost less than $1B to launch and operate New Horizons to Pluto. Cassini cost $3B. Artemis (launching space dads to the moon) is going to cost at least $85B minimum. For that budget we could search for life on Titan, Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, and a half dozen other places
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People who aren't space nerds may not realize how little is in the pipeline. There is basically nothing going past Mars, and launch windows are closing. I wish one of our billionaires would become obsessed with Jovian moons instead of sending his sagging body to float overhead
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It's the other direction from Mars, and I agree with everything you're saying, but I'd like to point out these upcoming Venus missions & suggest you give Dr. Grinspoon a follow - an excellent author and science educatorhttps://twitter.com/DrFunkySpoon/status/1414971767559442437?s=20 …
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David GrinspoonVerified account @DrFunkySpoonI wrote this 5 years ago, making the case why we need new Venus missions. Now it reads as a roadmap for why I'm so psyched about the 3 (so far) confirmed upcoming missions to our sibling world! The Romantic Venus We Never Knew http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/the-romantic-venus-we-never-knew … via@NautilusMagShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I absolutely will, thank you! I'm all-in on Venus missions too
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Every single one of his books would likely interest you. The one on the New Horizons mission speaks to your excitement on outer-planets exploration, there's a Venus book, and Earth in Human Hands is one of the very top books I would nominate as "should be much more widely read"
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Thanks so much for the delightful recommendation!
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