On: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

[cloverich]

I just died laughing. I'm reading all the inspiring comments on how we actually could get there, and could totally see myself being on an engineering team that builds this thing, and 100 billion dollars later you ask that question and we all go: "Oh... oh crap." On a constructive note -- does anyone have a list / book of generally smart people getting sidelined by such things?

[irremediable → cloverich]

There's a book called It Looked Good On Paper full of things a bit like that, albeit on a smaller scale.