“Well it’s kind of cool to find such a large moon, but, let’s face it, so cold, so far from the Sun, and in the company of so many similar moons it must be dull, dull, dull. I mean really boring beyond belief. Apart from its size there couldn’t possibly be anything interesting about such a place. There’s no reason to believe anyone will ever have any interest in looking at it more closely, let alone going there if the technology to do so ever becomes available.”
–random internet poster responding to Christiaan Huygens’s announcement of the discovery of Titan.
