The quote from the VA/HUD/Indie appropriations bill says this:
This bill still needs final passage in Congress and then the President needs to sign it, but things are looking good. I may get to see pictures of Pluto in my lifetime! That’s a wonderful thing.
I’ve heard it’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Actually, I think it would be fascinating to see photos of the furthest planet from the sun. Who knows what doors it may open?
Yes I would like us to actually send a probe to it and be able to say we sent a probe of one kind or another to every planet of our solar system then to de-planetize Pluto and say we sent a probe of one kind or another to every planet of our solar system.
GO PKB
Or we could take that thirty million bucks and give it to me. I would then spend as much as $1000.00 to hire one of these photoshop geeks hanging around the office to make really cool and convincing looking fake photos of Pluto, which I would then send back to NASA.
This would accomplish just about as much, and I certainly would be much better off.
Booyah!! More spiffy wallpaper for my computer! Yay!
[sub](somebody had to do it)[/sub]
Heh. I betcha that Pluto is worth a dang sight more than a mere thirty mil.
Why are we worrying about Pluto when we still don’t have a effective orbital weapons platform to cut terrorists and nay-sayers in two with laser beams?
Nitpicking here, but actually Neptune is currently the planet farthest from the sun. Neptune and Pluto’s orbits overlap, so for a period of, I believe, 38 years, Neptune is farthest out there. Maybe for the next 10 years or so, yet.
Nitpicking here, but Pluto passed Neptune heading out in 1999
Make sure to mark your calendar, so you don’t miss it again in 2227…