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APL to build craft that will touch the sun

So how do you send a spacecraft to the sun without broiling it to a cinder? "We go at night," said Andrew A. Dantzler, project manager for Solar Probe, a new space science mission announced yesterday by the ...

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Reality
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May 3, 2008
 
At only $750,000,000 maybe we should send two or three? After all, the govt has lot's of money, they just print it when they need more.
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Reality wrote:
At only $750,000,000 maybe we should send two or three? After all, the govt has lot's of money, they just print it when they need more.
For a guy with the handle "reality," you seem to lack a sense of perspective.$750 million (for a fourteen year mission) is less than one tenth what this nation spends on video games in a single year. What's going to be more important to this nation in the long term: understanding how the sun (which will ultimately have to be our source of energy) works, or helping our teenagers develop their thumbs?
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