12th July 2003, 11:15 AM
Just one small problem. Polaris is a totally useless star! We have no real reason to ever actually go there except to go there. No planets or anything. The places we actually WANT to go are much MUCH farther away.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)