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Calling all Planetary Explorers
Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation Jan 29, 2010
Today's XKCD comic is very funny and very sad...
http://xkcd.com/695/
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jan 29, 2010
Awww... That's so sad 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jan 31, 2010
Indeed! I thought of "Moon" too when I read it.
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 31, 2010
I have Moon on my Netflix queue. Maybe I should bump it up.
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Baron Grim Posted Mar 8, 2010
Someone in a forum discussion about that comic made a good point. If you want to anthropomorphise, it's much sadder to consider the plight of the Voyager probes. They're never coming home and we'll never catch up with them. They're getting farther away and are more distant from us than anything we've ever made.
There's a good chance we'll see those little robots on Mars again.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 8, 2010
But in Star Trek 1, one of the Voyagers came back.
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Recumbentman Posted Mar 8, 2010
When they sent a probe crashing into a comet's tail, as a last kamikaze mission, I saw Patrick Moore describing its demise. He obviously didn't expect to be as emotional as he was; he kept brushing away his tears with impatient annoyance.
It is like losing a very valuable limb, at the least. I treasure that involuntary display by Patrick Moore.
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