OT - A long way to go for a short distance
They just launched a new Mercury probe. Every source I've read or heard says that it will travel 5 BILLION miles before it reaches the planet closest to the sun. That's funny. It's only 93 million miles from the sun to the earth. So, what is this thing going to do? Go to Pluto first, then go to Mercury? Obviously, no one has checked their facts before someone typed this up and now everyone is quoting this as gospel. 5 Billion miles to Mercury?
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