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> Uranus has not been explored up close since a flyby of the Voyager mission in 1986. Whenever I start feeling down about everything good being done, I like to
by prepend 5y ago
> Uranus has not been explored up close since a flyby of the Voyager mission in 1986.
Whenever I start feeling down about everything good being done, I like to think about how much we just don’t know. It’s amazing to me that we have these planets nearby and know almost nothing about them. Also the deep sea, etc. we still have a lot to explore.
- manc_lad 5y ago"nearby" I see you're a glass half full kind of guy.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoI too like having Australia just a short jump away halfway around the world.
- Sharlin 5y agoWell, Uranus is the sixth closest planet out of the several thousand known ones.
- NineStarPoint 5y agoIt’s only a single order of magnitude farther away than Mars is, which is quite reasonable in the grand scheme of things.
- ncmncm 5y agoJa, we have already sent way too many probes to Mars. Red deserts, yes, we get it already. Place is a dump.
- prepend 5y agoNear enough to get to it. We were there in 1986 so could go back if we want. (As opposed to planets around other stars that we haven’t even gotten to yet.)