• HubertManne@piefed.social
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    24 hours ago

    I mean I kinda see manned missions as pointless. I would like us to remotely create destinations before going through the added expense of people and I think the technology gains would be bigger.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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          21 hours ago

          I’m going to ignore the obvious Kindergarten joke (which I’ve made myself).

          I would be happy to send a probe to Uranus. We know a lot less about the outer planets bcz we’ve really only done a few flybys of them.

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            17 hours ago

            It’s funny, because things I’ve watched recently have been pronouncing it YOUR-uh-nus, versus your-A-nus. Dunno when we made the change, but 25-30 years ago, it was butthole.

            But jokes aside, I want to see something like the Parker Solar Probe, but out. Fastest thing ever created, by a large margin, and second place is the goddamn manhole cover. I’m assuming the science can’t exactly slingshot something straight out like that, wave to Voyager Uno and Voyager Dos, and see what’s happening.

            I’m no scientist though, but let’s go.

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        23 hours ago

        now we just need the construction of destinations. we are well on our way tom completing the initial preliminary work before we start what should be the main effort.