When It Comes to NASA, Polarized Politics Need Not Apply

A few days ago I got into an interesting conversation on Twitter. As I posted Monday morning, NASA released a pretty amazing image, a mosaic of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft when it flew past the tiny world back in July 2015. Although the images were taken at the moment of closest approach, it's taken a long time to download them; New Horizons is more than 5 billion kilometers away, and it's not exactly connected by a fiber optic line to Earth. The bitrate is very slow, and we had t...