Posted on 07/14/2015 6:16:57 PM PDT by tennmountainman
We can't wait to see the images and all the info they'll be bringing to us tomorrow!
If there are any rainbow flags in the photos I am sure the whole thing is fake.
Kinda like the Moon Landing! /s
Thanks for the link! Just watched the program on Nat Geo Channel, then caught the telemetry reports on the NASA Channel you provided the link for.
Go USA!
Oh, and uh, let’s put Pluto back in the planet roundup with the other big boys!!!
I was going to watch the NASA channel but for some reason, it didn’t have audio. Don’t know if it’s our tv or Comcast. So I just waited until it was time for New Horizons’ signal to come in and pulled up NASA TV on the computer and watched it there. Same with the presser a half hour later.
No, I hadn’t heard about Obamarx’s Tweet. No surprise he’s trying to take some credit where none is due. *spit*
“What does this cost a nation $20 trillion in debt?”
Whatever it was, that money was better spent than on welfare. It is amazing to consider, that within the lifetime of some people still living, Pluto was discovered and at last visited. For all my life, Pluto has been an unknowable speck in the cosmos. Suddenly, we can see what the surface looks like. This is an amazing age to live!
I think investing in our space program is a worthy expense. What we’ve gained from it in years past has been definitely worthwhile.
Please! Post 4 said “I find this a worthy expense”, meaning the poster approved of it, then “... compared to a study ...”, which by contrast the poster did not find worthy. I’m thinking you misconstrued this to mean that the post was equating the Pluto mission with the cited study.
I am guilty! My mind is on other things.
Yet many, or most, seem to be unmoved by the exploration of Pluto. I wasn't alive in the 30's but in the 50's the saga of Pluto's discovery was meat on every boy scientist's table. So of course I find this achievement very fulfilling, but the vacuum of interest I see around it pains me personally
Tom Swift and the Caves of Nuclear Fire, oh yeah!
This will be from here on in “The Iconic Pluto Pic” well at least until 3 PM tomorrow!
Have they found any Space Muslims yet?
Sweetie, I SUPPORT this mission.
Agreed.
You know what’s ironic? Mankind has reached a pinnacle of technical achievement, much of it developed in the West. This Pluto probe would have been impossible without a maturity and convergence of ALL branches of science, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, aerodynamics, electronics, computer science, mechanics, communications, photography, etc.
And yet, at this very hour of human glory, there are sub-human savages trying to tear down all forms of human achievement, as they march around a black stone monument that contains of all things, a meteorite - as they howl Allahu Akbar to their pagan blood-drenched moon deity.
And yet, we can see distant worlds, but not the existential urgency to defend our own!
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