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xNaquada t1_jdalrci wrote

I brought it up as an indicator of what the images of Pluto looked like with 200x era tech (quite good). So imagine what we could get even now (+16years+signal back time).

>Even if the data we got back weren’t images of the planets there and just basic data, that would be so incredible.

It had nothing to do with the ability -- given we're talking about a theoretical probe that will transmit data back, I had made the same assumption as you did (context of the reply) in that data would indeed come back.

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xNaquada t1_ja6pasp wrote

If true so what? The US doesn't go after it's tech giants hard enough for it to matter. Even if it's a $10B fine ( which it absolutely will not be) , Google makes more than that per quarter in profit (not revenue, profit!).

The days of any US government holding corporatations to meaningful account has long passed, and every player nationally and internationally knows it.

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