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Grendel  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Q&A with Alan Stern, the lead scientist of New Horizons.

Astronomers are some of the strangest people in the world. Getting excited over a giant snowball floating in space five billion kilometres away from us... This man has been waiting 26 years for this moment! I've never been that excited about anything in my life.