Humor

Scientists argue about what instruments should go on board, and publish the results in jargon-laden professional journals ten years later.

FWIW, I'm a scientist. I just know engineers get damned little public credit, unless something (out of a million somethings) goes wrong.



(Scientists suggest space missions, politicians decide which ones get funded and for how much, engineers are assigned the job of making it all work, and scientists ooh and ah for the cameras, then start planning the next one.)

But on the environment, I'm gonna trust scientists anyway. They're the ones studying the whole damned Universe, and trying to understand it at a granularity well below the dimensions of an atomic nucleus*.







*I would have said the "Planck length", but most people have no idea what that is, and it's incomprehensibly small even for scientists.