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Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Communication a problem by elronxenu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I call troll.

  2. Re:Communication a problem by Captain+Hook · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    it takes 8 minutes to send a signal as far as mars and 4 years to send one to Alpha Centuri, which Voyager 1 is predicted to reach in later 2009. here in the lab, however, we are working on some technology that should help alleviate this problem.
    I can't work out what you are trying to say here, it reads as if you are expecting Voyager 1 to reach Alpha Centuri around 2009 which I'm sure you don't believe. Alpha Centuri is 13000AU away and Voyager 1 is moving at about 3.5 AU per year, is moving in the wrong direction and only has enough fuel to last until 2020ish.
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  3. Let the Uranus and Klingon jokes begin! by cbmeeks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, great photo. I can't wait to see what they find at the PLANET Pluto. cbmeeks http://www.codershangout.com/ - Slashdot this....I DARE YOU!!! hahaha

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  4. Mod Parent Troll/Off topic Please!! by simm1701 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would anyone with mod points please mod parent as troll, offtopic or if generous perhaps funny.

    As the other replies have pointed out he is spouting nonsense (voyager may leave our solar system 2009, but its a a few tens or thousands of years away from any other and I think its pretty unlikely its vector will take it to Alpha Centauri - I'll be honest I haven't checked)

    I'll admit its plausable sounding nonsense, but as barnum said....

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  5. Gravitons by rumith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By the way, do you know any good papers that try to extend the SM into gravity without using the concept of graviton? I.e. is there a model which attempts to describe gravitational effects not as an interaction of its own kind, but rather as some correction coefficient to the strong and electroweak interactions? Thank you.