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Messenger's Mercury trip ends with a bang, and silence
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RE: Messenger's Mercury trip ends with a bang, and silence
(April 30, 2015 at 5:16 pm)TRJF Wrote: Humanity has changed the momentum of a planet.  When we look up in 3 billion years and see that Mercury's a few inches from where it should be, we can think to ourselves: "Damn. We did that. Awesome."

We'll all be dead by then.  I was going to say, "trust me on this," but I will give you a link instead:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...e-science/

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Messenger's Mercury trip ends with a bang, and silence - by Pyrrho - April 30, 2015 at 5:24 pm

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