Counterpoint: Neptune is neat but there are much more interesting things to study in the solar system than a gas giant. A lander on Titan would drive more science than a new photo of the cloud tops of Neptune.
neptune
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why not both? For the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could send others to every planet.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Woah there cowboy,
We’re still closer to rival monkey tribes hurling our shit at one another as we shit it out than we are some benevolent, knowledge valuing civilization.
Don’t worry a few more pointless world wars and population decimations, and our species might actually develop admirable priorities beyond tribal resource hoarding from the ashes.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
NASA sets program budgets in collaboration with the scientific community.
How do you propose we get society to stop spending money on the military?
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’ve been absolutely fascinated with Titan ever since Huygens. I can’t wait for Dragonfly to land a decade from now!
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
there are many things besides pixel count.
i bet it was a hell of a 0.6mp camera to be able to snap that good of a pic of a planet literally in the middle of space
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Probably a very good lens. If there’s no digital zoom and little digital correction, then quality can be quite good despite low pixel count.
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Photography advice threads: “zoom with your feet!”
Scientists: “…ok.”
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, does Neptune have oil???
We might need a little more to finish destroying our sole, communal habitat. Anything worth doing is worth doing well!
crawancon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
it’s got diamond rain, man.
oh… a-and thousand mph wind.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s got diamond rain, man.
Keep that shit down, or we’ll invade Neptune.
ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 11 months ago
Bunch of diamonds tossed around in 1000 mph winds, what could be the worst that happens…
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
And on top of that we’ve only seen a false color version of that image for a long time, leading us to believe that it’s a much deeper blue than Uranus.
ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Well that makes sense, by anus isn’t blue at all.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The Uranus images are also very poor.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are there any good voyager 2 documentaries that anyone would recommend? Looking at the pic of Neptune and damn it’s crazy that they sent them so far and got great results
Gloomy@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I quite liked Astrums cover of Voy 1 and 2.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At least we have 4k photos of Ur anus.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 11 months ago
We need to go back!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And it was able to take such good photographs because of a fairly rare planetary alignment that allowed for three gravitational slingshots.
The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was president, and he blew it.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yeah he really screwed up the Australian space agency and put us on the back foot.