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Imagine sending out a $700m spacecraft only for it to send back a 21-mile galactic snowman 13 years later

Ultima Thule, more like ultimate fools!
I’m joking, this is actually pretty cool.
This is Ultima Thule, a 21-mile long rock 4.1 billion miles from Earth, the most distant object ever to be visited up close by humans.
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waste of money similar to what LBJ wanted to build his great society
kentex35 · 100+, M
@MarmeeMarch well lady bird got billboards pushed back a hundred for off the highway. And that guy sitting on his front porch in the mountains of Kentucky that wasn't going to worry About his poverty anymore
He's still there. Well soon as he serves out that incest charge.
@kentex35 yea - I dont know what you are talking about
kentex35 · 100+, M
@MarmeeMarch when LBJ got that welfare boosted or whatever he traveled to some places that were below poverty level more than others. One place he went to was Inez, Kentucky. It's a 20 minute drive from West Virginia. It has/ had a population of 600. It was real Appellation (sp) in coal country or one county away, anyway his idea was to drive to some poor hillbilly's home(preselected) to personally tell him that his life was gonna be better with federal money to boost his welfare check. So he and his limo plus secret service just show up at this guy's place and the guy is sitting on his porch and up comes the presidential limo and staff, security, and paparazzi he gets out of the limo wells up to the porch shades the guy's hand tells him the good news, takes a couple of pictures, then walks back to his limo and drives back to D.C. 1964 give or take. Sometime in the 80's the guy is still on his porch, his home in the same condition, still no job and facing incest charges. He was guilty but didn't know it was illegal to sleep with the "young" niece or that first cousins. Bye freely told the police when asked. They were engaged or fixing to be til the law intervened. The girl didn't know and had no complaints nor did her parents.
@kentex35 thanks for the info -- incest charges in Kentucky, what a surprise.
kentex35 · 100+, M
@MarmeeMarch well if she ain't good enough for family then...