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re: Pluto is coming into focus (New Hi Res pics in OP) 7/15
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:23 am to Chad504boy
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:23 am to Chad504boy
Jesus you are a dunce.
People are excited because humans are expanding their indescribably limited knowledge of what exactly lies out there in the great mysterious beyond.
The average brain can't even begin to comprehend the distance covered to take these photographs.
People are excited because humans are expanding their indescribably limited knowledge of what exactly lies out there in the great mysterious beyond.
The average brain can't even begin to comprehend the distance covered to take these photographs.
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:23 am to Chad504boy
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so bunch of scientific stuff that will most likely lead to zero benefit of our planet realistically speaking. Cost wasn't nearly as bad as what was thinking so i'm no longer sweating that portion.
At some point, Humans will need to know how to survive outside of the comfort of Earth. These types of missions will be the foundation of more impressive discoveries in the future.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 11:24 am
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:25 am to SouthOfSouth
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Humans will need to know how to survive outside of the comfort of Earth. These types of missions will be the foundation of more impressive discoveries in the future.
i think we'll be annihilated on our own planet before we have the capability to survive as a species outside of our own planet.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:25 am to Chad504boy
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i think we'll be annihilated on our own planet before we have the capability to survive as a species outside of our own planet.
Well of course if people like you run our space program into the ground.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:29 am to weagle99
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This. I don't think most people appreciate just how difficult this was and how incredibly FAR away Pluto is from the Earth.
Yep. In the last pluto thread someone posted a link of the solar system if the Moon was 1 pixel. I was bored and scrolled through it all on my phone. Took a good 20 minutes for me to get to pluto. And I was scrolling fairly fast.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:33 am to SouthOfSouth
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Well of course if people like you run our space program into the ground.
yeah cause it took 50 yrs to get a picture.... we're having a mini ice age in like 20 years. Ya'll better get the frick with it.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:33 am to Chad504boy
NASA's mission doesn't begin and end with "cool pics of Pluto". Every endeavor brings up new challenges, and people are forced to think differently to engineer solutions to problems that would never exist otherwise. This leads to developments, devices, and knowledge used "in the real world" that we would likely not have gained any other way.
Artificial limbs
Firefighter gear
Cell phone camera
Thermal scanner (temporal thermometer)
Invisible braces
MRI scans
Solar panels
Water filters
UV-blocking sunglasses
As of 2012, NASA has documented over 1800 "spinoff" technologies
Artificial limbs
Firefighter gear
Cell phone camera
Thermal scanner (temporal thermometer)
Invisible braces
MRI scans
Solar panels
Water filters
UV-blocking sunglasses
As of 2012, NASA has documented over 1800 "spinoff" technologies
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 11:35 am
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:35 am to ell_13
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NASA's mission doesn't begin and end with "cool pics of Pluto". Every endeavor brings up new challenges, and people are forced to think differently to engineer solutions to problems that would never exist otherwise. This leads to developments, devices, and knowledge used "in the real world" that we would likely not have gained any other way.
Artificial limbs
Firefighter gear
Cell phone camera
Thermal scanner (temporal thermometer)
Invisible braces
MRI scans
Solar panels
Water filters
UV-blocking sunglasses
As of 2012, NASA has documented over 1800 "spinoff" technoledgies
People who act like NASA isn't important normally do not understand the benefits they have on technology.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:36 am to ell_13
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NASA's mission doesn't begin and end with "cool pics of Pluto". Every endeavor brings up new challenges, and people are forced to think differently to engineer solutions to problems that would never exist otherwise. This leads to developments, devices, and knowledge used "in the real world" that we would likely not have gained any other way. Artificial limbs Firefighter gear Cell phone camera Thermal scanner (temporal thermometer) Invisible braces MRI scans Solar panels Water filters UV-blocking sunglasses As of 2012, NASA has documented over 1800 "spinoff" technologies
Somebody should remind Obama of all of this since he wants the entire space program shutdown.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:37 am to ell_13
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NASA's mission doesn't begin and end with "cool pics of Pluto".
that's great and all but you are generalizing my original question about what this pluto deal is about to anything to do with space type exploring and all NASA work.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:39 am to matthew25
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I read somewhere that the size of Pluto is the distance from Baltimore to Houston.
It ain't very big.
Pretty cool size comparison image from BBC.com:
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:39 am to Chad504boy
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why is this exciting? what does this do or change or mean?
Men, who are limited in their knowledge of most things regarding space and space travel sent a probe into space 9 years ago. This was a probe that is the fastest probe ever to be launched from earth and to travel space, that has sent back pictures and data from parts of our solar system that we've never been before, and will likely never see again. If that doesn't excite you, then please go back to watching E! or Keeping up with the Kardashians....
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:43 am to Manzielathon
or the amount o math required to get the spacecraft end up where it needed to be.
Its like shooting a gun to where you think the target will be... in 9 years.
its amazing
Its like shooting a gun to where you think the target will be... in 9 years.
its amazing
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 11:46 am
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:43 am to Kracka
I can get ate up with space. I hope to live long enough to see a human on Mars. Terraforming the red plant should be next.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:44 am to Chad504boy
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so bunch of scientific stuff that will most likely lead to zero benefit of our planet realistically speaking.
How does the current welfare system benefit our planet realistically speaking? More money is wasted on that dumpster fire than this mission.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 11:45 am
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:44 am to Chad504boy
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that's great and all but you are generalizing my original question about what this pluto deal is about to anything to do with space type exploring and all NASA work.
It's at least some actual progress that you can see to proving we can maneuver a spacecraft exactly where we want it 15 years into the future. It's the ability for us to transmit that data back to earth to help us. What if we do learn something great about pluto's atmosphere that helps us in the future?
The great thing about exploring is that with every discovery, it gives you more questions to try and answer.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:44 am to weagle99
Good job weagle
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:45 am to Kracka
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Men, who are limited in their knowledge of most things regarding space and space travel sent a probe into space 9 years ago. This was a probe that is the fastest probe ever to be launched from earth and to travel space, that has sent back pictures and data from parts of our solar system that we've never been before, and will likely never see again. If that doesn't excite you, then please go back to watching E! or Keeping up with the Kardashians....
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:47 am to jmarto1
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Bill Nye
Screw Bill Nye, that communist bastard.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:48 am to SouthOfSouth
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It's at least some actual progress that you can see to proving we can maneuver a spacecraft exactly where we want it 15 years into the future. It's the ability for us to transmit that data back to earth to help us. What if we do learn something great about pluto's atmosphere that helps us in the future?
The great thing about exploring is that with every discovery, it gives you more questions to try and answer.
i guess. i guess my original point was that i totally understand how its vastly uninteresting to the masses. I also get why some are interested in it all. Unless this probe comes back with a picture of ET with his finger pointed up, the masses don't care very much.
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