Given the ideas that Star Trek and other SciFi planted into our minds, it is sobering - to say the least - how much patience actual space exploration requires.<p>Having said that, it is, of course, totally awesome to see something like that, even if it looks like the graphics of a 1980s computer game. No plane, no ship, no car in use on earth has ever traveled even remote as far as New Horizons has. You could spend a lifetime zipping around the globe and still come nowhere near the distance this spacecraft has traveled...