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By Bill Altreuter

I'm still enough of a science geek to be excited by the information coming back from NASA's Messenger mission to Mercury, but it reminds me about the key reality with respect to space travel, one which most SciFi conveniently glosses over. Holy crow, there's a lot of space in space. The Messenger spacecraft took six and a half years to arrive. You know who isn't going to spend 12 years in a space ship to go to Mercury and back? People. Even so, reading things like "Mercury's day is about twice a read more

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).