Wonderful, wonderful news - and thank you for the citations. #102 bodes for our descendents pretty well (even under 20th century physics, not to mention what supergeeks are working on now).
I've going to bug a couple others about Uranus, if you don't mind. Absolutely fascinating. How come the MSM never covered the fly-bys? Would it be possible to send a relatively-cheap mission past Uranus and Neptune? I know "New Horizons" is en route to Pluto, but what data will that gather? Surely, within 20-odd years, we can get a planetary slingshot alignment that will get something across those two damn things, particularly if we can shoot the damn thing from Mars or something.
Thanks for adding me to the Ping List.
God Bless,
-Jeff
Voyager 2 decades ago did a fly-by of Uranus and Neptune and allowed the mass of each to be corrected to just about 100% certainty. Previously they were known to about 99% of actuality.