[extropy-chat] Huygens: First visitor to Titan

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> Some teary eyes in the room recounting the years of
> this mission:
> 25 years since conception, two generations of
> scientists, thousands of
> engineers, hundreds of scientists, 19 countries
> involved.

Sorry, but this is the thing that really sticks out
for me, much more than the science data.  It takes
*that much* to get a lander onto Titan?  That's way
more than we should have to use.  We need to make
space exploration far more efficient.