Canine
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The spacecraft New Horizons did a flyby of Pluto and is sending back pictures.Almost 10 years to get there and it will be 2016 before all the data gets back to earth.Bravo,NASA.
3 Billion Miles....WOW
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LeeRevell
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"400 baud"? Barely faster than my old 80's Commodore 64 with phone modem! :dodgy:
LeeRevell
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JT646 said:Pretty cool closeup pictures coming in. Lots of potential free campsites but a tad chilly and terrible transit fee's.
Not great for solar power either.
I have long wondered what the furthest planet's surface was really like.
Luisafernandes
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gsfish said:
They must be using warp speed because it takes data (at the speed of light; 186,216 miles per second) about 20 minutes to get here from Mars. Pluto is considerably farther away. [emoji1][emoji106]
Luisafernandes
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Luisafernandes said:
Disregard that. My fingers were faster than my mind. I saw 4 minutes in my mind, when in fact you have 4 hours. [emoji23]
eDJ_
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Not quite 50 years ago we went to the Moon. Now we've arrived at Pluto.
(after 9 years travel to get there)
This accomplished in the life times of the "Boomer's" and "Gen Xer's".
I remember my Dad telling me how excited he was as a little kid in the early 1950's
when he heard that the USA was going to send men to the Moon.
But the older adults told him he would be a grown Man before it happened.
(said he was about 7 back then and when we got to the Moon he was 22)
No matter how it may seem like things are going nowhere here on Earth,
we are still accomplishing some things we can take heart in.
(after 9 years travel to get there)
This accomplished in the life times of the "Boomer's" and "Gen Xer's".
I remember my Dad telling me how excited he was as a little kid in the early 1950's
when he heard that the USA was going to send men to the Moon.
But the older adults told him he would be a grown Man before it happened.
(said he was about 7 back then and when we got to the Moon he was 22)
No matter how it may seem like things are going nowhere here on Earth,
we are still accomplishing some things we can take heart in.
LeeRevell
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"We" won't get out to any planets (as far as actually visiting them) until we have a major change in Government and Industry priorities. Basically, Government needs to step aside, stop dictating who CAN go into space, and Industry needs to realize the wealth of resources to be gained out there, and develop the ways to get to them in decent time. While it was governments who largely funded the early explorers of this and other continents, it was the trade companies who got us out to them and set up the colonies. Space will be the same. The initial infrastructure needed will be expensive, but once built the rewards will be vast. Then in time, we will have "Vandwellers" buzzing around the Cosmos in their Winnebago and Roadtrek space campers........
LeeRevell
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Russia launched the first primitive radio-equipped satellite, Sputnik, the year I was born. We watched Eagle land on the moon when I was 12 years old. I was in the Navy when the Space Shuttles were doing their thing. More satellites whizzing around the solar system all that time. Each planet getting a visit. Voyager has just last year finally exited the solar system, and is heading into deep space. One day, a fast-moving colony ship will pass it by on it's way to spread humanity across the cosmos.
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LeeRevell
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Optimistic Paranoid said:
Unfortunately that website is so choppy and cluttered I find navigation impossible. Could only see the first couple pics.
