Trip To Pluto Cost Less Than Vikings Stadium

Here's a reality check for you.

New Horizons, the space probe that gave us our first ever glimpse of Pluto, will be leaving the solar system soon. It will take a couple of weeks before the pictures are done being sent back to Earth.

The nearly 10 year mission to the "dwarf planet" (I still hate that they took away it's planetism) cost $720 million. That breaks down to $0.24 per mile. And that's just thus far. It's going to keep going for years.

The new Minnesota Vikings stadium is will stand for decades on Earth, and cost $1 billion.

Do you think that building a $1 billion football stadium is worth more than spending equal money for space exploration?

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