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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For the outer planets we are kind of limited by the plutonium supply, which was running low for a while as we worked off weapons-byproduct stocks but has stabilized lately.
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We can always make more of the stuff, kind of by definition. But like the rockets it would require a plan and some willingness to make it happen.
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