Comment But... (Score 1) 332
...what'll it do if I already hallucinate every day? I'm hallucinating that I'm locked in my closet with Alyssa Milano right now!
There are six key questions NASA hopes to answer during Messenger's year-long orbit of Mercury: why is Mercury so dense;
Aliens.
what is the planet's geological history;
Aliens.
what is the nature of Mercury's magnetic field;
Alien warp engines.
what is the structure of Mercury's core;
Alien space station.
what are the unusual materials (ice?) at Mercury's poles;
Alien ice.
and what volatiles are important at Mercury?
Aliens farting.
"If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." -- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory