Sunday, July 18, 2021

Food for Thought...

So I don't know who to hate more: A.) MAGA supporters, B.) Republicans in general, C.) anti-vaxxers (these three aren't mutually exclusive), D.) die-hard SpaceX fanboys who won't shut up about Starship, or E.) those astronomers who announced the discovery of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere last year?

The answer is E.

Until NASA greenlights another New Horizons-type mission to the outer Solar System and beyond (which I've been waiting to happen for almost 16 years now), I'll never forgive those astronomers for relegating Trident to nothing more than a computer-generated concept. To hell with them and to hell with Venus...overlooking the fact that Venus is already a hellish world. With no real future in human space exploration. That is all.

The Trident spacecraft could've become real if not for a lousy discovery made at the planet Venus last year.
L.M. Prockter et al. LPI / JPL / SwRI

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