Re: Nuclear-Powered Mission to Neptune Could Answer Questions About Planetary Formation

From: Luigi Caselli (luigicaselli_at_anyspamrefusediol.it)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:36:21 GMT

<baalke@earthlink.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1102639059.704608.79810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/neptune.htm
<snip>
> Also, because Neptune is so cold, its structure is different from
> Jupiter and Saturn. A mission to investigate the origin and structure
> of
> Neptune -- expected to launch between 2016 and 2018 and arrive around
> 2035 -- will increase scientists' understanding of diverse planetary
> formation in our solar system and in others, Steffes noted.

I'm so angry, almost 20 years to reach Neptune...
Where are all the wormholes, the entanglements, the Star Trekkers...
In 2035 I'll be 77 years old, or more likely I'll be dead, so I won't see
anything of this interesting mission...
How many millenniums to see something a bit faster (only a bit) travelling
in space?

Luigi Caselli

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