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My potential envy has now converted back to actual envy then. Star Trek IV was the best of the movies (though Khan was good too). I hadn’t considered a favorite mission. Why Voyager II?
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Just timing... I was in 8th grade and had just gotten into astronomy a couple of years earlier (86, Halley's comet) during the Neptune flyby. Did a class report where we had to choose a planet and I chose neptune. Just a few months before V2 flyby and the gorgeous photos came in.
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(this was written just before the pluto flyby, I wanted to capture the feeling of not-knowing like we're experiencing with ultima thule right now)
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Reading that, I think I might have unintentionally referenced that particular post tonight during a Pluto conversation. That always-already knowing feeling also came to me w the first AFM images of aromatic rings a few years ago.
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Oh neat. I ought to look into microscopy more. Perhaps not as visceral since afm has more mediation than optical astronomy, but pretty cool to see that molecules do indeed have the geometry theorized