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[grinninfoole]

Sadly, NASA may have to shut down the Voyager probes monitoring station, because they don't have the money to keep them open. That's very sad--it's good science, and the project will come to an end in a few years anyway. I'm a long way from the kid who was enthralled by Cosmos, but I still feel the emotional connection to the Voyager missions that Carl Sagan kindled. This is science at its purest--we're doing this just because we want to discover something we didn't, and couldn't, know any other way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4338245.stm

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[millari.livejournal.com]

I finally got around to following this link, and while I know there are many priorities I believe in here on earth that could be funded with that money, I know they won't be. They'll go to Iraq and corporate welfare, so why the hell not keep sending us amazing photos of the solar system? Learn some more about our world, even if we don't use it for super-practical purposes.