Mission to Pluto is a go!
dgthe3 @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:48 pm
Well, the New Horizons probe is off to Pluto. It will be the fasted vehicle yet made by man and it is scheduled to arrive around 2015. Pluto is the last planet that has not been explored and if all goes well it will explore the region beyond pluto. When it arrives it will take signals around 4 hours to reach Earth, while traveling at the speed of light. It is a nuclear powered craft, relying on decaying plutonium to get its energy since solar pannels get rather useless much beyond Mars. Anyone else hear about this mission? There is an article about it in a recent eddtion of Popular science, I think it is the January one but it may have been December
Canadian_Mind @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:53 pm
read about it on a trekkie site i go to. has she succesfully lifted off?
Wullu @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:01 pm
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
read about it on a trekkie site i go to. has she succesfully lifted off?
Lifted off at 3pm Atlantic. Flawless. I don't care how many times I see a launch it is still awe inspiring.
Canadian_Mind @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:03 pm
this is one of the few i was praying would go well. when it came to all the rest i really didn't care.
BartSimpson @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:15 pm
Cool. Bush is invading Pluto. 
fatbasturd @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:26 pm
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
this is one of the few i was praying would go well. when it came to all the rest i really didn't care.
just pray that they did better math on this ....then they did on the first Mars launch.....
dgthe3 @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:35 pm
$1:
just pray that they did better math on this ....then they did on the first Mars launch.....
Imperial, Metric, whats the difference? You mean 1 foot isn't the same as 1 metre?
fatbasturd @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:27 pm
dgthe3 dgthe3:
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just pray that they did better math on this ....then they did on the first Mars launch.....
Imperial, Metric, whats the difference? You mean 1 foot isn't the same as 1 metre?
Ripcat @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:43 pm
View the launch here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
797 @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:48 pm
I'm all for the exploration of space,more money should be spent on it and less on bullits and bombs.
Banff @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:18 pm
797 797:
I'm all for the exploration of space,more money should be spent on it and less on bullits and bombs.
dgthe3 @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:27 pm
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I'm all for the exploration of space,more money should be spent on it and less on bullits and bombs.
And none should be spent putting weapons in space. Communication and recon satalites are one thing. But space lasers, kill-bots, 'rods of God', and so on should stay on the ground, and on paper, and never build and put into space
IkeaMan @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:43 pm
Gee.....only 8 years, 11 months and 30 days to go before it gets there. Hope I didn't miss a day?
Poisson @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:55 pm
Wonderful! It's always a dream of mine to see Pluto in photos.
Too bad I have to wait almost 10 years.
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:59 pm
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Pluto is the last planet that has not been explored
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4730061.stm
hasn't no. 10 been discovered? So that would make pluto second to last.