StyroCupMan writes "NASA has announced that it will launch a satellite to map our solar system's boundary. It will also study the particles and radiation that pose a health and safety hazard to humans. Time to invest in that shiny new spacesuit."
My point is that if you're going out that far at least make every effort to collect as much data as you can. Either mission requires a launcher, spacecraft bus, comms, power. They could have just bolted the extra science onto the one that has been "in development" for Pluto/Charon/KBO for years now.
NASA is all about engineers, not scientists. Therefore you get "Let's build a big space station. We'll figure out what to do with it later"; "Instead of sending people to fix HST, let's build a cool robot instead"; or "Let's build a long-duration probe and tell people it's to map the heliopause." If you want to know about radiation that affects Earth then WHY do you need to go so far away from it? Because you want to build a spacecraft that will last 50 years.
If NASA is so upset about not having any money, WHY are they wasting it on things like this?
-- "Well Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist. I don't believe in anything." - Dr. Roger Fleming
It really is a good thing they're mapping ....
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... Now we will never have to see this episode of Bugs Bunny:
"Nya, what's up, Doc? Must of taken a wrong turn at Andromeda."
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My point is that if you're going out that far at least make every effort to collect as much data as you can. Either mission requires a launcher, spacecraft bus, comms, power. They could have just bolted the extra science onto the one that has been "in development" for Pluto/Charon/KBO for years now.
NASA is all about engineers, not scientists. Therefore you get "Let's build a big space station. We'll figure out what to do with it later"; "Instead of sending people to fix HST, let's build a cool robot instead"; or "Let's build a long-duration probe and tell people it's to map the heliopause." If you want to know about radiation that affects Earth then WHY do you need to go so far away from it? Because you want to build a spacecraft that will last 50 years.
If NASA is so upset about not having any money, WHY are they wasting it on things like this?
"Well Ranger Brad, I'm a scientist. I don't believe in anything." - Dr. Roger Fleming
"Nya, what's up, Doc? Must of taken a wrong turn at Andromeda."