That line came to mind as in two hours,New Horizons will buzz by Pluto and will leave us far richer in the experience along with knowledge that will have in living in a world that will never been the same again.
That may sound like hyperbole',but if you are into space science or general knowledge about the solar system,the world will never be the same.
All the things that we thought we knew about Pluto will be turned upside down and the data that comes in the next few hours will be studied for years and years as unproved theory is replaced by reams of information that come from this flyby.
It's funny the amount of information that this little flyby that will bring for a few fleeting days to the general public.
Projects like New Horizons turn the public for a few moments onto science and then move onto a another topic,usually one that isn't quite so informative.
It's the low attention span and constant amount of things to choose from in the news that keep important things from being funded.
It would be nice that today's mission would mean more than just information about a planet that we have never seen in such detail before,but it likely won't be a big deal to more than a small group of people with interest in space science.
After all,out on the new horizon for most people is just another note on the side of their Facebook page
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