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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
Alan Stern may be acting petulent and hypocritical, but he did wager $700 million of taxpayers' money on a mission to the ninth planet.
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There's no "wager" involved here - the probe's going to find interesting stuff regardless of whether Pluto is a proper planet or not. In fact it's already worth the money paid IMO just for the Jupiter flyby stuff (which as usual returned more info about Jupiter than Galileo ever did).