Plutonium to Pluto

This article is somewhat interesting. Apparently they're planning a space mission to Pluto. Since there's not enough sunlight that far out to power a solar-powered spacecraft, they're going to do what they did with the Pioneers, the Voyagers, and a number of other spacecraft: they're going to give it a mini nuclear reactor.

This is, of course, a very common sense approach to space exploration, which is why there must be about thirty metric tonnes of red tape, and a touchy feely public concerns search on the subject. If they'd only watch Star Trek, they'd be able to relax and just launch the damn thing.