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We're Pumped Up About Visiting Pluto After Seeing This NASA Video
Popular Science TV ^
| June 12th, 2015
| Sarah Fecht
Posted on 06/13/2015 7:28:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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What Pluto Might Look Like [Illustration by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute]
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posted on
06/13/2015 7:28:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
58-minute video:
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three minute trailer:
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06/13/2015 7:28:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
Extra to APoD. Today's APoD has been delayed, I've been trying to get it to load for over an hour, bupkis.
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06/13/2015 7:29:17 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
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06/13/2015 7:29:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: SunkenCiv
Many many moon asgo I remember seeing a an old movie about some guys who went to either Neptune or Uranus and found some kind of paradise separated from the rest of the planet by some sort of barrier.
One of the guys stuck his arm through the barrier and pulled it back flash frozen.
Nothing to do with anything, it just came to me.
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posted on
06/13/2015 7:35:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad political fact. Most people prefer a popular lie over an unpopular fact.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/13/2015 7:45:33 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
To: SunkenCiv
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06/13/2015 7:46:23 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Nifty, Civ very nifty! And Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh from Kansas! (He said with quiet pride.) He also discovered the Kuiper belt and 15 Asteroids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh
Do you, or does anyone know the source of the music starting second 41 and ending at 1:29? (is it Carbon Based Lifeforms?)
To: cripplecreek
One of the guys stuck his arm through the barrier and pulled it back flash frozen. And did he say, "Hold my beer!" right before doing so?
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
And did he say, "Hold my beer!" right before doing so?
Nah, the other guy did because his was warm.
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06/13/2015 8:03:50 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(You vote for your TPP supporter and I'll vote for mine.)
To: SunkenCiv
Dad got me a subscription to Popular Science when I a
was about 11 years old in ‘62. I really enjoyed reading Were Von Braun’s articles about the American space program, especially Apollo. I don’t ever recall him writing phrases like “the launch on on Americas biggest, baddest rocket, tricked out with every conceivable booster.”
He had a great knack for communicating to lay people without such banalities. He really respected his readers.
I sure do miss America’s pre-dumbed-down days.
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06/13/2015 8:09:09 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: cripplecreek
One of the guys stuck his arm through the barrier and pulled it back flash frozen.I remember as a kid it was said if you threw a banana out your window on Pluto, it would shatter upon impact a meter below.
Don't know if that would happen or not.
If you really want to blow your mind, read up on the physical properties of neutron stars. Stuff like falling off a bar stool and hitting the surface at 1/3rd the speed of light.
Space is cool.
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06/13/2015 8:09:32 PM PDT
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Drew68
To: Dallas59
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:10:04 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Werner, not Were. IPad dumbing-down.
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:10:33 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
Whoops. Working link:
58-minute video:
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06/13/2015 8:20:24 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
My dad subscribed for as long as I could remember, and the subscription has continued in the years since his passing. Those Von Braun articles were great; somewhere I have a paperback collection of them with the updates (such as, the target year for the Mars missions).
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06/13/2015 8:23:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: cripplecreek; Drew68
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06/13/2015 8:24:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
I don’t, but someone else may. :’) I’ve not listened to that yet, I ran the trailer last night, but wasn’t paying much attention, alas.
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06/13/2015 8:24:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: BenLurkin
Agreed!
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"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet. |
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06/13/2015 8:25:25 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: cripplecreek
I believe that was the movie Journey to the Seventh Planet, with John Agar.
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:33:18 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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