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Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures
sighted writes "The New Horizons probe, on its way to Pluto and beyond, is now speeding toward Jupiter. Today the team released some of the early data and pictures, which are the first close-range shots of the giant planet since the robotic Cassini spacecraft passed that way in 2001."
Nasa has discovered Jupiters gas was produced by CowboyNeal.
.. that pluto isn't a planet any more???
I certainly hope so, otherwise it could get really embarrassed when it tries to ask for directions!!
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Except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
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I was thinking in terms of thrusters to be able to align the probe towards earth/anything interesting that might be out there such as a Vogon Construction Fleet.
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The explanation is in fact that the gravitons do not move at the speed of light but instead are exchanged instantaneously
/bangs his head against a wall for 30 minutes...
/returns to banging his head against a wall for another 30 minutes...
Let's strip you of your academic credentials along with a dude who proposed stripping of academic credentials from global warming sceptics
It will be ok if it runs out of thruster power. I'm sure it will run into some sentient mechanical life forms out there that will repair it so it can continue on its mission to learn all that is learnable and transmit it back to the creator.
Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures
Doctor Manhatten Outraged!
Somehow I suspect the extent of his scientific credentials is a copy of the Starfleet Technical Manual with pages that are strangely stuck together, and a tattered Burger King hat hung from a nail in his parents' basement.
when does it get to probe Uranus?
Thankyou, thankyou. I'll be here all week. Try the chopped liver.
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What is this APL, and why are they named after a programming language with its own character set?
Save Maine's economy: write stuff down. All comments are exclusively my own, not my employer.
Unfortunately it then zips the compressed image into a self-extracting exe, so NASA's anti-virus strips it off at the mail server.
Because spying on the Mi-Go is more important
I like to write zero as 0.00E8. How do you write zero?
"Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures"
Holy crap, they made another metric/imperial conversion error!
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
And all we found was that Martian microbe that smells like daffodils.
I just think the 16 decimal places are kind of overkill because, by the time you write them down, everything after the fifth or sixth one has changed because the objects are moving relative to each other.
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...and they forgot to load the cameras up with colour film.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.