Pluto, the once and future planet

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Airborne Rifles

July 14, 2015, 06:52:50 AM
NASA doing a flyby right now. Odds on finding aliens?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/14/us/nasa-new-horizons-pluto-flyby/index.html

Can't wait to see the pictures they send back!

Centurion40

#1
July 14, 2015, 07:41:10 AM
If you were an alien, would you live on Pluto??!!  Me neither!

Apparently aliens like mountainous areas, like the Andes or Switzerland.  They also seem to like Texas.



I would think that they'd prefer coastal California.  Nice weather, hot babes.
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Barthheart

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July 14, 2015, 07:49:18 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on July 14, 2015, 07:41:10 AM
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I would think that they'd prefer coastal California.  Nice weather, hot babes.

Yeah but they seem to like cows too .... so maybe they are 4-legged....  :crazy2:

Barthheart

#3
July 14, 2015, 07:50:14 AM
Oh... and Pluto is still not a planet.  ;)

JasonPratt

#4
July 14, 2015, 08:44:12 AM
It has a separate orbit around the sun; it will always be a planet to me.

Quote from: Centurion40 on July 14, 2015, 07:41:10 AMIf you were an alien, would you live on Pluto??!!  Me neither!

Hey now, that was not only the site of the underwater base from which the Gamilons launched their radioactive planet bombs to steadily wreck the Earth, but humanity later had an (overrun) outpost of Space Marines there as well!

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July 14, 2015, 08:58:40 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 14, 2015, 07:50:14 AM
Oh... and Pluto is still not a planet.  ;)

Hey! You're bringing me down with all this Pluto h8.
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bayonetbrant

#6
July 14, 2015, 12:06:35 PM
they're doing a live-stream of the fly-by at the science museum here.  I'm taking the kids when we pick up Bayonette from pre-school this evening

http://naturalsciences.org/programs-events/its-pluto-time
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bayonetbrant

#7
July 14, 2015, 07:59:48 PM
At the science museum with Bayonet Jr, waiting for images from Pluto to come in. About 600 other people here, too.
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mirth

#8
July 14, 2015, 08:04:35 PM
NERDS!!!!
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Rekim

#10
July 14, 2015, 08:45:43 PM
Hope your not in a rush. With a transmission rate of 1 kb/s it's going to take a while to receive even a few images. ETA of something like 16 months to download all data from the flyby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunications_and_data_handling

bayonetbrant

#11
July 14, 2015, 08:46:28 PM
Yeah, they just did a big telemetry check in. They told us the pictures would be released by NASA tomorrow. It was kind of underwhelming
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Bison

#12
July 14, 2015, 08:52:14 PM
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!


Man this is probably the best thing that humanity has going for it right now.

mirth

#13
July 14, 2015, 08:53:47 PM
We have the Ghostbusters reboot.
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DoctorQuest

#14
July 14, 2015, 08:58:39 PM
And "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

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