Re: Kaku
Yea, he was. For a guy who built a positron accelerator as a kid,
I don't think he was too superstitious about radioactivity.
I forgot about the flyby. They actually raised the perigee altitude
bowing to political pressure.
I remember some religous nut writing a story in one of the space newsgroups on how Cassini hitting earth was going to be a
precursor to the apocalypse. After all the buildup, It's hard just to
let something go.
I'll admit, I watched the launch with a fair amount of trepidation, as much for what would be lost in space science as for the mutagenic ramifications of a botched launch. I slept through the flyby....