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Old 14-January-2008, 04:03 AM
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I would argue that it's at least somewhat pointless and wasteful to put probes on other worlds if we have no intention of ever leaving the nest ourselves.
Agreed, and if I thought we were certain to just sit here on Earth and, eventually, inevitably, die off without ever getting out there ourselves, I'd find all those images of other worlds far too painful to watch.
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