SkyHog
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Everything Offends Me
There's a big ol' comet coming in 2013. It appears that it is going to fling itself past the sun and then eject from our solar system.
Why don't we try to find a way to stash some sort of monitoring device....transmitter, or something, on it. Maybe even a camera. Let it take us for a ride.
That would be awesome, and I bet we could learn a lot without having to expend too much fuel to do (aside from actually getting to the comet).
2 questions:
1. Has this ever been discussed before?
2. Any SciFi use this idea?
Why don't we try to find a way to stash some sort of monitoring device....transmitter, or something, on it. Maybe even a camera. Let it take us for a ride.
That would be awesome, and I bet we could learn a lot without having to expend too much fuel to do (aside from actually getting to the comet).
2 questions:
1. Has this ever been discussed before?
2. Any SciFi use this idea?