New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:00PM from the galaxy-far-far-away dept.

jwhyche writes: The New Horizons probe has captured the farthermost images of Earth. The probe took images of Earth from a distance of over 3.79 billion miles on December 5th, 2017. This beats the image Voyager 1 captured 27 years ago. The Voyager image was taken at a distance of 3.75 billion miles and has become known as the "Pale Blue Dot" photo. Engadget notes that this new record is likely to be broken again within a matter of months. "The [New Horizons spacecraft] is slated to swing by another Kuiper Belt object (2014 MU69) on January 1st, 2019 and record more imagery in the process," reports Engadget. "So long as the mission goes according to plan, New Horizons could hold on to its lead for a long time."

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every.fucking.thread by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-13 21:05 · Score: 0, Insightful

Fuck this. I am sick to fucking death of hearing about you Americans talking about Don and Hillary.
You fucking voted for him, stop fucking whining about it. And if you didn;t vote, well you fucking should have.
You should have voted for Bernie or Stein, or someone who cared, but you didn't and there you have it. You fucked yourselves in your own assholes and are complaining about the butthurt.