New Horizons is transmitting data from its Pluto flyby *right now* and I'm so excited I think I peed a little!!
Eggy
member, 577 posts
Tue 14 Jul 2015 at 13:50
msg #2
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
And I thought it was just me! ^_^
Piestar
member, 563 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Tue 14 Jul 2015 at 14:02
msg #3
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
It is so awesome! We're just gonna zip right by it, but it's still cool. Imagine if we see something we really, really want to look at more closely! It'd take twenty years or more to get another eye in the sky out there! Ack!
Flarelord
member, 315 posts
Tue 14 Jul 2015 at 14:03
msg #4
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
Pluturination?
katisara
member, 5995 posts
Nazis. I'll Godwin
if I want to.
Tue 14 Jul 2015 at 14:59
msg #5
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
It was launched at around 37,000 mph and is now 29,65,290,250 miles from Earth, to skim across the horizon of a body 1,400 miles wide.
Nintaku
member, 384 posts
Tue 14 Jul 2015 at 17:38
msg #6
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
Gonna take this opportunity to brag just a li'l bit. I got to visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory a few weeks ago! :D They were sup excited about this very thing, and we got to see their mission control room displaying a bunch of info about the probe, and the thing which blew everyone away was just how fast the darn thing was moving and yet /still/ how long the trip took. Numbers like that are just impossible to process without a frame of reference. This is one hell of an accomplishment.
Glad we're all excited about it together. ^_^
katisara
member, 5997 posts
Nazis. I'll Godwin
if I want to.
Wed 15 Jul 2015 at 12:02
msg #7
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
Oh wow, how did you visit JPL?
praguepride
member, 1012 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Wed 15 Jul 2015 at 16:38
msg #8
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
Best picture of pluto we'll ever see for a loooong time:
I'm just hoping they catch a glimpse of an elderly Plutonian shaking his fist at the telescopic lens and yelling "Dang teenage Earthlings, get off my frozen lawn!"
Heath
member, 2880 posts
If my opinion changes,
The answer is still 42.
Wed 15 Jul 2015 at 19:13
msg #10
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
As long as it doesn't look like Eddie Murphy...
(Yes, that's a long way to go for a Pluto Nash joke.)
Piestar
member, 571 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Wed 15 Jul 2015 at 19:17
msg #11
Re: PLUTO PLUTO OMG WE MADE IT TO PLUTO
Heath:
As long as it doesn't look like Eddie Murphy...
(Yes, that's a long way to go for a Pluto Nash joke.)
To date I am the only person I know who actually liked that movie, but I did.
