"You're sending us where?"
"Planet Nine."
"But...we don't even know if it's there...or where there is."
"You could say the same thing about the moon, but we got there."
"The mo--? You mean the giant white circle in the sky? What do you mean we didn't know?"
"Well you could see it right, but we didn't _know_ know. Not really. Could've been all sorts of weirdness between Earth and the Moon."
"Yeah, but you could see it."
"Oh? Do you trust electromagnetism more than gravity?"
That was a good question. Jemryl thought back to her dissertation on anomalous electromagnetic phenomena and how they were betrayed by the greater sensitivity of generational improvements in the detection of gravitational waves.
"Look," Margaret, the head of the UN envoy to the Asia/Pacific POD construction facilities on the Indonesian island of Sumatra had given this kind of speech a few times, "just because we can see them doesn't mean they're easy. For all we know, Planet Nine's the most habitable one of them all. You know We've Got to Try."