In less than 100,000 years, we went from small agricultural and hunter-gatherer tribes to being able to send a camera, traveling at 50,000 km/h, 5 billion kms to hit a moving target that's another planet that we first detected by measuring it's invisible influence on another planet. Holy sh;t, we're cool. LinkWired wrote:Here is New Horizon’s newest image of Pluto, sent from the planet yesterday and released early this morning. Each pixel represents 4 kilometers, and the image is 1000 times the resolution of anything from Hubble.
The image is oriented with Pluto’s north at the top. The dark regions (not shadowed) are the planet’s equator, which is about 2/3rds the diameter of Earth’s moon. The photo shows a lot of detail, but New Horizon’s scientists are cagey about what it all means. There are features indicating impacts, freeze/thaw surface activity and “maybe even tectonic activity indicating internal activity in the past, possibly the present,” says Alan Stern, New Horizons’ principal investigator.
And that’s only a sliver of the information to come. Stereographics will give measurable imagery of topographic relief. Compositional spectrography and plasma readings will show atmospheric activity. Thermal maps are coming. Full color photos.
And all of the above—and so much more—for the moons Charon, Hydra, Styx, Nix, and Kerberos. “By tomorrow, we’ll have images at 10 times the resolution of this image,” says Stern. We’ll be standing by, Alan. Blessings ~ND "There are many paths up the same mountain."
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Claim territory now!  
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Stellar! Or as Buzz Lightyear puts it, "To infinity and beyond!"  New to The Nexus? Check These Out: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
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So cool man made it so fair so cool congratulations nasa.  "PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS DON'T CHANGE YOU- THEY DON'T CHANGE YOUR CHARACTER-UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE CHANGED THEY ENABLE CHANGE THEY CAN'T IMPOSE IT...."
-ALEXANDER SHULGIN
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution
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Quote:“We’re going to do our 10-9-8 thing, and you can get your flags out,” S. Alan Stern, the principal investigator for NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, told the people gathered here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which is operating the mission. “We’re going to go absolutely ape.” Quote:By Wednesday, the spacecraft will be mostly finished with the data-collecting phase of the mission and begin sending back the trove of information for scientists to delve into.
“It’s like opening up a birthday present every day from now until the end of the next year,” Bonnie Buratti Sounds exciting  Every day I am thankful that I was introduced to psychedelic drugs.
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No hard feeling for the demotion eh Pluto! Inconsistency is in my nature. The simple PHYLLODE tekI'm just waiting for these bloody plants to grow
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It almost looks Arrakis like. "Energy flows where attention goes" [Please review the forum Wiki and FAQ before posting questions]
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Nice such good quality difference thanks for the link share. "PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS DON'T CHANGE YOU- THEY DON'T CHANGE YOUR CHARACTER-UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE CHANGED THEY ENABLE CHANGE THEY CAN'T IMPOSE IT...."
-ALEXANDER SHULGIN
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution
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Pluto: 4 light hours away Nearest star: 4 light years  Still have a ways to go... But it's pretty awesome anyway
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Pluto is such a tiny dwarf.. now it's like this tiny speck of light is family.  'What's going to happen?' 'Something wonderful.'
Skip the manual, now, where's the master switch?
We are interstellar stardust, the re-dox co-factors of existence. Serve the sacred laws of the universe before your time comes to an end. Oh yes, you shall be rewarded.
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anrchy wrote:It almost looks Arrakis like. Perhaps it will turn out to be a new source of melange! The spice is vital to space travel. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness.Freedom's so hard
When we are all bound by laws
Etched in the scheme of nature's own hand
Unseen by all those who fail
In their pursuit of fate
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Its beautiful to see this planet like that but I think to my self : wouldn't it be better to first make order on our planet instead of spending so much money for useless discoveries while people are still dying from hunger and curable deceases here? I don't know maybe its just me I have noticed that most of the people does not think this way. I just feel bad seeing all this wasted money for what a better picture ? How did going to the space ever helped humanity ? We just have to pay more tax right ? That is really good help Please can someone explain to me or show me that I am totally wrong ? Maybe I just don't get it. Maybe its ok for all these people to die so we can see nice pictures. Really for me this is like a big circus with clowns and stuff and we are those spectators blinded by all this charade not to see what is really going on here. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
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We are all living in our own feces.
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I think those two are not mutually exclusive.. On one hand I agree that we should focus on fixing our relationship with our own planet, before we start considering bringing our garbage elsewhere. And yet I also think that it is amazing that human achievement goes this far, that the human mind is capable of re-thinking and finding inventive solutions to problems, of advancing knowledge in ways we wouldnt have imagined possible years ago. And sometimes these advances dont have a clear purpose, or dont seem immediately practical for the daily life of most people. But that doesnt remove their merit, I think just the fact we are trying to expand our horizons, break barriers, is already highly significant. It is an intrisic part of being human... we wouldnt have gotten this far if we didn't want to innovate and expand even if it doesnt seem usable at first. Now if only we can do this without relying on unsustainable resources, conflict mineral technology, etc etc... But I think we're heading that way, or at least I hope so. Brace yourselves, we might be just giving birth to something completely new
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smokerx wrote:Please can someone explain to me or show me that I am totally wrong ? Maybe I just don't get it. Maybe its ok for all these people to die so we can see nice pictures.
NASA Technologies Benefit Our LivesINHALE, SURVIVE, ADAPT it's all in your mind, but what's your mind??? fool of the year
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Yeh ok that picture is real and I suppose we went to the moon also 
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Don't you understand...it's another government coverup!
This is what they really found... Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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O.M.Gfor the greater good  INHALE, SURVIVE, ADAPT it's all in your mind, but what's your mind??? fool of the year
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