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Researcher Touts Saturn’s Titan As New Exploration Goal
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer, Space.com
posted: 14 March 2006
01:07 pm ET


"'Titan is just waiting for us…Titan wants us,' [Jonathan] Lunine suggested. 'There is no body in the outer solar system that is better designed for exploration than Titan.'"

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Researcher Touts Saturn’s Titan As New Exploration Goal
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer, Space.com
posted: 14 March 2006
01:07 pm ET
"'Titan is just waiting for us…Titan wants us,' [Jonathan] Lunine suggested. 'There is no body in the outer solar system that is better designed for exploration than Titan.'"

Yeah, and NASA is just waithing for someone to knock on the door and ask for some $2 bil. dollars to build spacecraft to Titan...

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Yeah, and NASA is just waithing for someone to knock on the door and ask for some $2 bil. dollars to build spacecraft to Titan...
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There are now almost 800 billionaires on planet Earth.

http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

You would think at least ONE of them would be thrilled
to sponsor a planetary mission.

Or do I just not understand the really rich? Or even the
mildly rich? Or even the ones who have enough funds
leftover for a nice vacation to Disneyland?

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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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There are now almost 800 billionaires on planet Earth.
You would think at least ONE of them would be thrilled
to sponsor a planetary mission.

I've thought for some time that some of these companies were missing an opportunity. Consider the advertising potential in being able claim something like "The Microsoft/Intel Titan Rover is running Windows Vista on an Intel Itanium-based platform. If it can handle the outer reaches of the solar system, think what it can do for your desktop."