Re: "...attempt no landing there..."

[OrionWorks]

> From Rick Monteverde:
>
> > Ok fine, so we won't. Sir Arthur right again, for the wrong
> > reason: NASA just whacked the exploration budget (including the
> > first Europa mission)to service the idiotic political
> > mandate of reviving the 1960's moon missions.
> >
> > On second thought, we DO have to go back to the moon first to dig
> > up the monolith, don't we...
> >
> > - R.
>
>
> What is this all about?
>
> Horace Heffner

It's about A. Clark's novel, and subsequent movie, 2010.

It's about the fact that NASA's budget can't afford to send real science projects to explore promising moons like Europa, where it is suspected the REAL action may lie teaming and swimming under the thick sheets of ice.

I bet there IS a monolith somewhere on that moon! ;-)

Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com