Space is the place
Space is the place
Out of context: Reply #7
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"NASA will offer billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner help on the first private deep-space mission: a journey designed to detect life, if it exists, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, according to documents acquired by New Scientist."
- Not that I want to pick nits — I love, love, love space exploration — but, err ... are the confines of our own solar system really technically deep space?Continuity
- I always though deep space was just interstellar space.Continuity
- I always thought it was everything beyond our Earth-Moon system. I suppose the context will change as the practical extent of our horizons do...Nairn
- ...and may depend upon how much Star Trek one has consumed!Nairn
- Hm, hm. I reckon deep space is outside the solar system, when one has left the Oort cloud.
Kind of like going from a civlised country to, say, Albania.Continuity - Or the US.Continuity
- Well, give it a couple of hundred years and your definition will be the right one, For now though: https://www.merriam-…Nairn
- Oh.Continuity