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rivendellroseIt is supremely unfair that it's going to take at least 17 years before we get an orbiter around Europa.
I'm thrilled that we're trying to do it and all, but... 17 years, seriously? And that's not factoring in that it still has to compete with other projects for funding? I am stupidly, deeply disappointed by this. I really, really, really want to see scientific proof of extraterrestrial life before I die, and stuff like this reminds me that with the pace of space exploration, that's just not all that likely. I know I don't have any room to complain - generation upon generation hasn't even had the possibility of the discovery dangling in front of them, and awesome and interested people like Carl Sagan died before we could get as far as having a lander on Mars, which I had the pleasure of watching as the data came in. And of course it's awesome that we're going to send something there. I'm all for that. I know science moves slowly, and I understand all the reasons why, but... damn it, I want a time machine, or immortality or something, just to make sure that I can see all the cool stuff that we're going to discover.
The long and the short of it, I suppose, is "wah, I want a Tardis and my own personal Time Lord tour guide." :P
In related news, I'm probably lucky, in a way, that this mammoth skeleton was announced as having been found in Los Angeles, CA, this week rather than last week. I can just see myself being traumatized over having just missed potentially seeing it.
I'm thrilled that we're trying to do it and all, but... 17 years, seriously? And that's not factoring in that it still has to compete with other projects for funding? I am stupidly, deeply disappointed by this. I really, really, really want to see scientific proof of extraterrestrial life before I die, and stuff like this reminds me that with the pace of space exploration, that's just not all that likely. I know I don't have any room to complain - generation upon generation hasn't even had the possibility of the discovery dangling in front of them, and awesome and interested people like Carl Sagan died before we could get as far as having a lander on Mars, which I had the pleasure of watching as the data came in. And of course it's awesome that we're going to send something there. I'm all for that. I know science moves slowly, and I understand all the reasons why, but... damn it, I want a time machine, or immortality or something, just to make sure that I can see all the cool stuff that we're going to discover.
The long and the short of it, I suppose, is "wah, I want a Tardis and my own personal Time Lord tour guide." :P
In related news, I'm probably lucky, in a way, that this mammoth skeleton was announced as having been found in Los Angeles, CA, this week rather than last week. I can just see myself being traumatized over having just missed potentially seeing it.
