And mine.
I don't mean to belittle it. It's incredible. But what it doesn't need is a load of overhyped bollocks to desensitise people to the achievement.
The method is what's amazing, not the discovery. Spacecraft goes to Pluto, finds an icy fucking rock. The details of the discovery are only interesting to a few specialists. To everyone else it's a bit disappointing. Why insult those who are interested by pretending otherwise.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 24 Jul 2015, 21:47,
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I don't know what's disappointing about it
My worry was that Pluto / Charon wouldn't have any interesting or unusual or beautiful features, but there are loads
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custard, Fri 24 Jul 2015, 21:54,
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Not to the man on the street. To us it's disappointing.
Think back to Philae. Landed on a comet. Extraordinary. But some poor fucking cock wore a childish shirt thinking it would make him interesting to children. A childish maelstrom followed. He cried like a child. ESA sent out childish tweets anthropomorphising a spacecraft: pretending it was yawning and waking up.
And no-one ever heard from it again. Fucking treat us as adults.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 24 Jul 2015, 22:10,
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Meh.
The shirt was a stereotypically bad fashion call by someone unused to spending time thinking about his appearance. I don't believe for one second it was worn to "make him interesting to children", that's a ridiculous thing to claim.
There is a major problem getting people in to science at school. There will always be those that naturally fall into it, but there will also be those who are capable who are either uninspired or unaware that it's possible. Twitter users tend to be younger, so the anthropomorphisation was there to engage them. If a few are inspired enough to dig deeper, then that's well worth ruffling the feathers of some sniffy, serious fools.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 25 Jul 2015, 7:14,
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Don't mind me
I'm just pissed off because we've seen the whole solar system now. And it's shit. Generations of the finest intellects all seeking the answer to one question. What's out there? And now we privileged few have been granted the answer. Absolutely fuck all.
Saturn looks nice. Jupiter's not bad. The rest can get in the sea. Especially that fucking Mars.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 25 Jul 2015, 10:14,
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