The New Horizon's mission to fly by Pluto is amazing. It is science and engineering at it's best. I cannot begin to comprehend the brain power behind such a feat.
In contrast....
A new planet has been discovered. The NASA press release has been covered with great excitement on all the news outlets. A new planet that has an atmosphere and possibly life. Even the local ditzy weather babe was amazed that it is "14 light years away" and "we may visit it in our lifetime". Oh boy.
First off, it is actually 1,400 light years away. So I crunched some numbers.
If New Horizons was on course to the amazing new discovery Kepler 452b, it would have to travel 2,222,000 times further than it's journey to Pluto. It took 10 years to get to Pluto. So it would arrive at this new and exciting planet in about...
22,000,000 years. (Twenty two million years).
But everybody in the media is instructed to be totally blown away and pumped up about a 1400 year old white dot, some theories based on math, and artist renditions that the masses probably think are actual photos.
It's nothing more than a push for more funding. But the sheeple are easy to impress.
In contrast....
A new planet has been discovered. The NASA press release has been covered with great excitement on all the news outlets. A new planet that has an atmosphere and possibly life. Even the local ditzy weather babe was amazed that it is "14 light years away" and "we may visit it in our lifetime". Oh boy.
First off, it is actually 1,400 light years away. So I crunched some numbers.
If New Horizons was on course to the amazing new discovery Kepler 452b, it would have to travel 2,222,000 times further than it's journey to Pluto. It took 10 years to get to Pluto. So it would arrive at this new and exciting planet in about...
22,000,000 years. (Twenty two million years).
But everybody in the media is instructed to be totally blown away and pumped up about a 1400 year old white dot, some theories based on math, and artist renditions that the masses probably think are actual photos.
It's nothing more than a push for more funding. But the sheeple are easy to impress.