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goobster · 3086 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hew Hroizons data is still trickling in. Here is the current data on Hydra, one of the small moons.
Thanks for doing the legwork on this response. I'm so tired of the "defund NASA" bullshit. Been fighting that red herring for more than 25 years now. I'll add the one point you missed: NASA's budget is a microscopic portion of the national budget. Less than 1%. So people who make the argument to "save the money and spend it on something else" are morons. There is orders of magnitude more money spent on other stupid shit. No need to start with NASA. And the other side of that coin is that, for a mere 1% of the budget, we get the intermittent utterly amazing thing, like the Internet. And taking 1% of your income and giving it to some of the smartest people in the world is a pretty damn good lottery ticket, as far as I'm concerned.