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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.'"

[dvandorn]

I'm not trying to rain on your parade, here, ngunn, but what in the world makes you think that a frozen ball like Titan, where people will almost definitely *never* travel themselves, will excite the imaginations of the general populace? If Mars, which is in almost all respects more Earth-like (at least you can see the Sun and stars from there), hasn't done it to the extent that we're ever likely to send people there, then why should a place where water is rock and propane is water be all that interesting?

I tihnk you're doing something we're all a little guilty of, here -- projecting your own extreme interest onto a populace that could simply care less...

-the other Doug