IN 1997 when Cassini was getting ready to launch and the anti-nuke protesters were protesting its existence, one Florida Today article talked about an amateur astronomer who got some A-NPs to look at Saturn through his telescope.

One older woman exclaimed that she better stop looking at Saturn through his scope or she might end up changing her mind!

A good number of them do not understand how nuclear power works for space probes, nor how well-protected these things are even against the rocket exploding. To say nothing of Saturn, Pluto, or just about any other celestial object. They just hear NUKE and their red flags go up.

I prefer to respect and listen to educated points of view.