It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: ToddF on February 17, 2015, 03:51:03 PM
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This one will be worth watching. This is it. The last planet (I'll never leave you, Pluto). It all started when I was a little kid, sitting down at grandma and grandpa's house, watching the first pictures come in from Mars. Think a picture loaded slowly at 28k? Heh. These things were coming down the screen at about a pixel a minute, it seemed. Eventually all the planets through Neptune were visited.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/)
There she be, about 5 months out.
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Planetoid my arse...in my book it is still a planet!
Just another 173 million Km to go. It will be interesting to see the image resolution as it grows closer.
If in July it finds a sign that says "Last chance for gas this solor system" I will chuckle. ;D
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The probe is probably carrying some voter registration forms with it. Just in case.
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Absentee ballots too, no doubt.
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Absentee ballots too, no doubt.
The miracle will be the USPS actually get them in time fro the election cycle. Can't get the ballots from the military but 3.5 billion so miles....no problem. ::rolllaughing::
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(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/20150414_First_Color_Image_Ralph.png)
Took long enough but we're finally starting to get some pictures of the approach.
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New Horizons snapshot...must be Charon along side...the other 4 satellites are dinky little buggers...
Closest distance is just 89 days away (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/)!
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Raw, unprocessed image.
(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/data/pluto/level2/lor/jpeg/029682/lor_0296826898_0x630_sci_1.jpg)
Getting close. ::popcorn::
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Yup, mid July coming fast.
It's definitely and odd shaped little spherical.
This animation is pretty neat -
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif)
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(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/data/pluto/level2/lor/jpeg/029786/lor_0297860108_0x630_sci_1.jpg)
Growing and growing. ::popcorn::
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I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?
"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"
;D
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I thought they were called Plutonians.
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Plutonians sounds so...atomic...militaristic...
OK, I can go with that. :D
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So agreeable, Libs ...... ;)
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::angel::
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I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?
"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"
;D
The progressives are on Uranus.
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I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?
"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"
;D
The progressives are on Uranus.
Drilling for gas reserves.
::exitstageleft::
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I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?
"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"
;D
The progressives are on Uranus.
Drilling for gas reserves.
::exitstageleft::
The moons around Uranus...must be those Trans lurking...
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The computer burped a little bit and gave everyone an oh s*** moment, but back on line.
(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/data/pluto/level2/lor/jpeg/029861/lor_0298615084_0x630_sci_1.jpg)
Wow. It's really there, now.
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Nice.
Now zoom in.
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Jeesh, what did the Plutonians do to the place? Looks all lumpy.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif)
The Progs trash this place too? ::facepalm::
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I think that's an old picture and the lumpiness was just a product of the computer enhancement.
(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/071215_Pluto_Alone.png)
Plenty round. ::popcorn::
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(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR.png)
Uff da! ::newyear::
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Amazing image.
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Funky lookin' thing, isn't it?
Looks like 5 hours till the next download...
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The good news is that NH phoned home! Phone home...phonehome...
(http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww173/prestonjjrtr/Smileys/Aliens/alien28.gif)
Now the real show starts, as we download all the data over the next year and a half.
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(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/article6598554.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/blue_skies_on_pluto-final-2.png)
(http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6468043.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/JS72362167.jpg)
(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/article6598696.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/context_map3-final.jpg)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/blue-skies-pluto-nasa-new-6598508 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/blue-skies-pluto-nasa-new-6598508)
Blues skies, atmosphere...water ice...
Man, we can colonize and mine the whole solar system...if we only had the will...
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The things we did, before NASA became a Muslim Outreach Organization...
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Aye...
(sigh)
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The things we did, before NASA became a Muslim Outreach Organization...
sh*t, for the last two decades they've been hard at work peddling AGW. The last great mission program was that of Apollo. Pioneer, Viking and Voyager were certainly successful but even then the great NASA was swirling in the toilet.
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New Horizons setting new distance records -
A NASA spacecraft on New Year's Day flew by an object farther than any spacecraft has before — 4 billion miles from Earth.
NASA received a signal from the New Horizons spacecraft Tuesday morning that it had reached a small space object known as Ultima Thule 10 hours earlier.
Team members gathered at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, cheer upon receiving the signal, which took so long to reach them because the small, icy object is 4 billion miles from the Earth and 1 billion miles from Pluto.
The full scope of observations made by New Horizons will take nearly two years to beam back to Earth.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-s-new-horizons-spacecraft-signals-most-distant-object-ever-n953546 (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-s-new-horizons-spacecraft-signals-most-distant-object-ever-n953546)
Two years is a long time...perhaps somebody will be at the controls to receive it...