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Pluto Probe Launches
Artem S. Tashkinov writes "The US space agency, Nasa, has successfully launched its New Horizons mission to Pluto. The $700m probe will gather information on Pluto and its moons before - it is hoped - pressing on to explore other objects in the outer Solar System. Pluto is the only remaining planet that has never been visited by a spacecraft."
In 2015 we should get some pretty interesting data back.
Here's a closeup of the latest photo of pluto taken by Hubble.
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But slower than Chuck Norris.
Anyway, that's quite some speed it has. Major improvement. Now we just have to hope nothing goes wrong.
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Whew. Talk about your eccentric orbits! Glad to have you back.
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The outer planet?
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Everybody knows Archimedes Plutonium was the real driving force behind the Pluto mission. It will be the final vindication of his Plutonium Totality Theory, by proving his prediction that Pluto is entirely made of Plutonium.
Pfft, yeah, I guess.. I mean, if you consider an average speed of 26,539MPH to be fast. If going from LA to New York in 6 minutes is your idea of fast, then sure, this thing is just whizzing along.
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The only image returned by the probe.
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"'The New Horizons spacecraft will be the fastest ever launched, more than 10 times faster than a speeding bullet.' That is faster then superman.
Not necessarily. Superman is faster than a speeding bullet -- that doesn't mean he is NOT eleven times[1] faster than a speeding bullet.
Besides, how long did it take Him to fly around Earth a few times to reverse time by using his massive amount of drag to reverse the spin of Earth? I bet the same speed would get him past the moon in less than 9 hours. Then again, that movie sucked. Never mind.
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in 2015 when the craft reaches pluto it will be greeted by Japanese rocket launched 2010 carrying korean 8-legged-roboAssTroNuts
p.s. How long before we get to the Pegasus Galaxy? I need to ask Thor and the Ori about Intelligent Design. I'm pretty sure they were involved somehow
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Well, *duh*. In space, there's no air molecules to slow down the sound! That's why the sound effects of that battle halfway around the planet always arrive in sync with what you see. Mach one = C. Or something. So the space shuttle goes 25c and consequently back in time. I should stop trying to wrap my head around this mystery before something breaks.
Is that why no one can hear you scream?
Now, being able to walk around afterwards kind-of puts a limit on things, as did the "returning safely", but just the stopping would have been a piece of cake.
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In the good old days, before "faster-better-cheaper", NASA would have made sure it built three or four redundant back-up planets into the mission plan, in case the original planet got downgraded en route.