Nasa's New Horizon Spacecraft has now reached and gone past Pluto. It is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. It took this pic below before it stopped transmitting. It should hopefully resume transmissions tomorrow. Pluto is no longer considered a planet, but a dwarf planet. They say this flyby may cause scientists to reconsider its status.
It kind of depresses me that , what 46 years after the moon landing, this is it, fuzzy pictures of the ass side of whats not even a planet anymore We shoud be up to photon torpedoes by now
I've got my phaser set to stun... Well it's not like we're gonna send a man to Pluto. I liked the way the ppl in the control center were waving American Flags when the flyby took place. I'm sure they wish they could plant one on Pluto. It may not have many scientific consequences, but it is some sort of achievement.
I just read this article and think it is pretty exciting and awesome. I did not realize it took 9 years to get there and will take more time to get more photos....but wow.....poor little Pluto sitting there so far away from the warmth of the sun..... http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/14/nasas-new-horizons-probe-makes-pluto-flyby-nine-years-after-leaving-earth
Coloring time! Pluto, Big Moon Charon Blaze in New Technicolor Images (photos, and more in the link below) Snip: ^From: http://www.space.com/29944-pluto-charon-false-color-image.html
It is real, in a Galaxy Far Far away :drummer: I have always been a fan of Pluto, although I have never liked the way Mickey treated him.
9 years. Rofl. Why even bother. Could have fed the starving with all that money and for what? Pictures of a rock ain't nobody gonna walk on. -rolls eyes-
Future space mining site? Why else is stuff like this going on: The House just passed a bill about space mining. snip: From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/22/the-house-just-passed-a-bill-about-space-mining-the-future-is-here/
A gram of gold might just be worth 300 million a hundred years from now. I think they're looking ahead. Flying all the way out there just for some pics is laughable.
Humans will use up all of earths resources before they can genuinely build a space craft capable of such mining tasks. It is never going to happen.
Why bother to vacation and visit any geologic feature. That money could feed people, well not directly but it could buy food. The why is we are keen to satisfy our interest. Do we have the same qualms about photos from the ocean depths? The vast majority of us aren't ever going to walk there and nobody actually has walked there being in a submersible. The applications of knowledge and expertise involved in space exploration have many practical applications or spin offs relevant to life on the ground. Survival technologies developed for space could be beneficial at some point if we were forced to retreat underground. Things like co2 scrubbers etc. Great pics!
It is laughable, but realistically, the drive from Houston to the LA studio to film "Pluto" is not that far. :alien:
