Nice work. I vote with Arthur C. Clarke too (ez choice).
Dead right: more pix daily! even risking the orbiter finally.. to descend closer and ultimately crash.

Situation reminds me of Dian Fossey's remarks, when she set out to study chimps -

"Oh you mustn't give the specimens names - they don't 'think' as we do.. just numbers.."

(Yes, this is what passed for "scientific objectivity" in that particular backwater - and long before anyone IMAGINED actual sign-language communication with another sentient species. Later, one such non-thinking 'species member' finally proved capable of describing how her mother was killed by a poacher. And how she felt about that traumatic event..)

This guy'd probably not get tenure.. too controversial.



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