It takes 9 hours to send and receive a message from New Horizon.
They said a couple of days ago it’s gonna take 16 months to get the information they’ve gathered in 2 days.
You got a problem widat? Not sayin' you do! But it's not unreasonable to believe, since the bottleneck is the earth transmission, and there is other business to conduct over that very limited channel.
It's all very carefully planned and arranged, and if you think about it, they've pulled off a veritable miracle of success here, so let's just all back off and make an obeisance or two.
Thanks rikkir and dr_lew. BTW, concomitantly sounds like a word made up by Neil Sedaka. ;’)
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