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They should send these out every decade or so. Especially if they could get to where they can relay data from probes further out. Technology advances so quickly

by kwoff 8y ago

They should send these out every decade or so. Especially if they could get to where they can relay data from probes further out. Technology advances so quickly, after all.

alluro2 8y ago
Yeah, as well as visit Titan and Europa more seriously...Why "we" don't do such things that are silly inexpensive relatively, but burn millions on reality shows is something I'll never learn to accept...
- ryandrake 8y ago
  Be satisfied that hundreds of years from now, our descendants will look back at how today’s society allocates and deploys its capital and shake their heads asking “WTF were they thinking?”
  - hutzlibu 8y ago
    Or they scavange the ruins of it ...
nabla9 8y ago
Pure science missions must compete for funding against efforts that inspire and capture the imagination of the people. Getting humans into Mars to study Mars geology is priority. Once humans have been in Mars few times and the public interest vanishes–as it did during moon missions–there may be more money for telescopes and probes and cheaper robotic exploration. 53 million households in the US (over 580 million globally) watched the Apollo 11. The numbers dropped dramatically after the first mission. Apollo 13 was dramatic exception. People get bored easily and lose intrest. --- If I would have a say, the priority should be the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OLT). US and other countries should have joined with Europeans to make it happen. The cost was 'just' 1.5 billion. Europeans opted for Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) instead and US is dong thirty meter telsecope. OLT would have been really something.
ahje 8y ago
The problem isn't that the probes get too far out; the problem is that they run out of power. The Voyager probes were launched in the 70's and their RTG's won't provide enough power to keep them running for much longer.

by kwoff 8y ago

They should send these out every decade or so. Especially if they could get to where they can relay data from probes further out. Technology advances so quickly, after all.

alluro2 8y ago

Yeah, as well as visit Titan and Europa more seriously...Why "we" don't do such things that are silly inexpensive relatively, but burn millions on reality shows is something I'll never learn to accept...

ryandrake 8y ago
Be satisfied that hundreds of years from now, our descendants will look back at how today’s society allocates and deploys its capital and shake their heads asking “WTF were they thinking?”
- hutzlibu 8y ago
  Or they scavange the ruins of it ...

nabla9 8y ago

Pure science missions must compete for funding against efforts that inspire and capture the imagination of the people. Getting humans into Mars to study Mars geology is priority. Once humans have been in Mars few times and the public interest vanishes–as it did during moon missions–there may be more money for telescopes and probes and cheaper robotic exploration. 53 million households in the US (over 580 million globally) watched the Apollo 11. The numbers dropped dramatically after the first mission. Apollo 13 was dramatic exception. People get bored easily and lose intrest. --- If I would have a say, the priority should be the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OLT). US and other countries should have joined with Europeans to make it happen. The cost was 'just' 1.5 billion. Europeans opted for Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) instead and US is dong thirty meter telsecope. OLT would have been really something.

ahje 8y ago

The problem isn't that the probes get too far out; the problem is that they run out of power. The Voyager probes were launched in the 70's and their RTG's won't provide enough power to keep them running for much longer.