[itsahoot]

Well, then just how is it (to mention only a more-recent example) that those scientists managed to manoever the space probe Dawn to within a few hundred km of Pluto last summer, take a slew of high-resolution images, and beam them 5 billion km back to Earth?

To be honest very little science was involved in that operation. Only Math and engineering, those are developed skills not new discoveries.

[alexander_busek]

To be honest very little science was involved in that operation. Only Math and engineering, those are developed skills not new discoveries.

Yeah, that's probably why they were sending probes to the outer planets as far back as the 1920s, since the math had already been developed and rocketry was already on its way.

Nothing new under the sun.

Regards,