Science Is Getting Geeky Again

PROBE OF MERCURY REVEALS “GOLD MINE OF EXCITING DATA …” WHOOPEE!

FITSNews – February 4, 2008 – We honestly don’t ”get” science. One day it’s doing cool stuff like making boobs bigger and enhancing bloodflow to the penis, the next day it’s turning fruit flies queer or taking pictures of Mercury – as in the planet, not former Dolphins’ running back (and former crackhead) Mercury Morris. Which would have been much cooler. Yet here we have the latest update on the Messenger spacecraft – another multi-billion dollar NASA project to boldly go where unmanned cameras have already gone once before.

A preliminary look at data from the (Messenger) flyby, including 1,213 images, shows a small, cratered planet that superficially looks like Earth’s moon but is very different in reality, they said.

Well, whoop-tee-doo and la-ti-da, science. We’re gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that since we already mapped 45% of Mercury’s surface (back in 1974 and 1975, people), the fact that we’re dealing with “a small, cratered planet” isn’t exactly groundbreaking news. We’re also going to go out on a limb and suggest that nobody gave a sh*t when we discovered this the first time.