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re: Pluto is coming into focus (New Hi Res pics in OP) 7/15
Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:21 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:21 pm to OMLandshark
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Yeah, not to mention, it's the fastest object mankind has ever built. This probe advances us as a species, and really only Eris slightly eludes us at this point.
I don't believe that's true, assuming this website is correct.
LINK
I'm guessing having the gravitational pull of the sun helped the two Helios probes.
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:24 pm 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.
Yeah, let's just crawl back into the cave and surrender knowing that death is a certainty. Meanwhile, people behind the New Horizons and other various projects are working on saving us from this fate that you clearly don't give a frick about.
We will have to leave this planet eventually, whether it be through generally ingenuity (like I hope) or after most of the planet has been annihilated (like you think). Either way, our descendents will strive to leave this planet in order to survive and spread. New Horizons will help achieve this due to it being the fastest vehicle ever assembled and the fact it showed us the true final frontier in our solar system. It will be centuries before we truly lay eyes on another world again, so this is a very important day in the history of man and will be remembered by our descendents.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:34 pm to Chad504boy
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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.
Because the masses are stupid hedonists who don't give a flying frick about anything more than 4 years in the future. That is as far in advance as most people are able to contemplate. If you tell a group of people they are about to be slightly inconvenienced for 10 years only for the results 20 years in the future to be incredible, most people selfishly don't give a frick about the atrocities that will happen the next generation than a current inconvenience. If you want immediate gratification, please just turn it to "Two and a Half Men". That seems closer to something you may be able to understand.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:36 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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Also, that machine is carrying a small container of ashes from the discoverer of Pluto who died some years ago.
I can guarantee when he discovered it in 1930 whatever, he never even considered that by 2015 we would be flying past it with his ashes.
Crazy when you think about it.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:49 pm to PoppaD
New horizons could explore 20 more years
Here's another thing that is amazing about the New Horizons mission. Most people will assume its over now that it took pictures of Pluto but that couldn't be further from the truth.
The thing has energy to go on exploring maybe 20 more years. Next stop will be fly by's and pictures of hopefully two to three objects in the Kuiper belt. Whys that important? Because that is some of the oldest material left over from the formation of our solar system and could provide lots of new knowledge.
After the Kuiper belt it just keeps on trucking out into the unknown.
Here's another thing that is amazing about the New Horizons mission. Most people will assume its over now that it took pictures of Pluto but that couldn't be further from the truth.
The thing has energy to go on exploring maybe 20 more years. Next stop will be fly by's and pictures of hopefully two to three objects in the Kuiper belt. Whys that important? Because that is some of the oldest material left over from the formation of our solar system and could provide lots of new knowledge.
After the Kuiper belt it just keeps on trucking out into the unknown.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 4:21 pm to OMLandshark
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Meanwhile, people behind the New Horizons and other various projects are working on saving us from this fate that you clearly don't give a frick about.
Fate - an inevitable and often adverse outcome
Humans will only exist for a short period of time and any planet that could support human life is physically unreachable. This can not be debated. It's ok to dream though. I enjoy seeing far away objects in space that no longer even exist in the same form they appear to us in, since they are so far away.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 4:34 pm to OMLandshark
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We will have to leave this planet eventually, whether it be through generally ingenuity (like I hope) or after most of the planet has been annihilated (like you think). Either way, our descendents will strive to leave this planet in order to survive and spread. New Horizons will help achieve this due to it being the fastest vehicle ever assembled and the fact it showed us the true final frontier in our solar system. It will be centuries before we truly lay eyes on another world again, so this is a very important day in the history of man and will be remembered by our descendents.
Pssstttt...I already mentioned it's not the fastest object ever assembled. But I agree on the rest of your stuff.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 4:34 pm to Buck_Rogers
Lol
Posted on 7/14/15 at 4:41 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Not sure if that link is outdated or what:
NASA's Juno spacecraft to become fastest man-made object as it slingshots around Earth towards Jupiter
LINK
NASA's Juno spacecraft to become fastest man-made object as it slingshots around Earth towards Jupiter
LINK
Posted on 7/14/15 at 4:54 pm to SECretariat
Not sure. 25 mps would be 90,000 mph.
The Helios was moving over 150,000 mph LINK
But maybe it doesn't count because it's speed was caused by the mass of the sun? (But Juno's speed was caused by the mass of the earth...)
The Helios was moving over 150,000 mph LINK
But maybe it doesn't count because it's speed was caused by the mass of the sun? (But Juno's speed was caused by the mass of the earth...)
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:00 pm to Buck_Rogers
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Fate - an inevitable and often adverse outcome
Humans will only exist for a short period of time and any planet that could support human life is physically unreachable. This can not be debated. It's ok to dream though. I enjoy seeing far away objects in space that no longer even exist in the same form they appear to us in, since they are so far away.
I disagree that this can't be debated. Theoretically a antimatter reactor could get us to .8 the speed of light, and it'd be feasible for there to be an Earth-like planet within a generation's flight to one of these worlds. And who knows what else we don't know about the cosmos.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:13 pm to OMLandshark
NASA Twitter
NASA has received the phone home signal indicating the probe made it through the Pluto System. They should start receiving data immediately.
NASA has received the phone home signal indicating the probe made it through the Pluto System. They should start receiving data immediately.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:28 pm to Henry Jones Jr
This is bigger than landing a rover on Mars?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:31 pm to Buck_Rogers
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Humans will only exist for a short period of time and any planet that could support human life is physically unreachable. This can not be debated.
You don't think that in 200 years humans will be living on Mars in some manner?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:32 pm to OMLandshark
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We will have to leave this planet eventually, whether it be through generally ingenuity (like I hope) or after most of the planet has been annihilated (like you think). Either way, our descendents will strive to leave this planet in order to survive and spread.
White flight
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:41 pm to Jake88
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This is bigger than landing a rover on Mars?
The most recent one, yes. But it's not as big as the Viking I, which was the first probe to land on Mars.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:54 pm to weagle99
Looks like a planet to me.
I will still call it a planet frick the Pluto haters
I will still call it a planet frick the Pluto haters
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:14 pm to elprez00
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NASA has received the phone home signal indicating the probe made it through the Pluto System. They should start receiving data immediately.
Huge news.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:16 pm to weagle99
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:18 pm to weagle99
Just watched the press briefing. They should start receiving science data at 5am ET tomorrow morning. Should get about 5 hrs worth. There is a mission briefing at 3pm ET where they'll have new photos and data to present.
I'm requesting a Sticky. Tomorrows going to be a big day.
I'm requesting a Sticky. Tomorrows going to be a big day.
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