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Those are great answers to the great questions, Naut.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 16, 2017 at 12:03 PM
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I really like the answers that you gave to the questions. Good job.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 15, 2017 at 9:47 PM
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I felt a tug too to think of lonely fatheful Cassini ending up in minute fragments but if we couldn't bring it back then I suppose that was the best result. A lonely existence to land somewhere and sit for years beyond number. Thank goodness to someone else knows we have been here longer than 6000 years and evn though my grandbabies were sure when they were little that I played with Dinosaurs; No I did not.
posted by
Kabu
on September 15, 2017 at 3:44 PM
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Nautikos
Thanks for the post and the answers, Naut! It would be nice if we could have taken samples from Titan's lakes and other areas of interest. A shame about Cassini, in a way. Now I wonder, did we contaminated Mars or the Moon... 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 15, 2017 at 11:06 AM
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Perhaps one day the probes will come back hopefully not contaminated. Would you like to go to Mars? If you were young and carefree, remember it would probably be a one way trip, well I expect so in your lifetime. 
posted by
C_C_T
on September 15, 2017 at 10:44 AM
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I find this extremely interesting - learning stuff about Cassini and
de-germing stuff we send to outer space, & etc., but as I got to the end something came to mind. Sometimes we hear someone say that they (or someone else) are as old as the hills. I guess we're not, except in the sense that the stardust from which we're made could well be. :)
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Pat_B
on September 15, 2017 at 10:13 AM
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