Re: Space exploration is expensive

Quoth Lumina Dragon <kewhitte@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> Ah, but Samurai, Galileo has proven that stupid people will make
> no more impact than smart ones, provided they are dropped from the
> same height.

I have to call Signor Galilei's conclusion into question, in light of
the more modern Einsteinian interpretation of gravity. We know the
stupid people have denser heads, so they will warp spacetime around
themselves a fraction more and thus fall faster. Plus, they'll make a
bigger crater. :D

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