It would be hard to overstate the scientific return on investment from missions like New Horizons, which cost taxpayers less than the dining room on the International Space Station. It's enormously frustrating that we don't do ten of these a year.https://twitter.com/DrFunkySpoon/status/1417984673616117761 …
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To pick one egregious example, we visited Uranus exactly one time, in 1974, and discovered the planet is really weird, colder than any planetary model predicts but with a strangely hot corona, a bizarro magnetic field, and... that's it. No plans to go back. Just dads to the Moon.
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(Sorry, got my dates wrong. The one Uranus flyby took place in 1986, with 1974 hardware.)
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Why can't we have even one space billionaire who is obsessed with flying in a wingsuit on Titan instead of just cosplaying Project Mercury, or promoting a Fyre Festival on Mars? Why do they all have to be so basic? America needs better billionaires.
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I would like some billionaires to devote invest in taking photos of previously unknown deep sea creatures. Release a picture of one newly discovered species every Wednesday at noon.
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Also A+++ on board with this plan.
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