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- maquito
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto.
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/9/8921…
Hopefully better than 3 mega-pixel b&w images...
- uan2
- http://disney-clipar…maquito
- it's pennies on the dollar of what's spent in warmonospaced
- infinitely more reasonable spent moneyuan
- You know what happens next
http://images.rotten…ETM
- pinkfloyd2
Pluto is my favorite planet.
- http://7770647a14b08…marychain
- your favorite "dwarf planet" you mean.ETM
- Weyland1
This is What We've Learned About Pluto in the Past 24 Hours
- e-pill0
im a scorpio and pluto is my planet..
if any of you FUCKS says otherwise..
..i'll be happy to introduce you to PLUTO's FINEST!!
love,
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- Huh. I wonder how ancient astrologers knew of Pluto?detritus
- shaddup detritus! pluto is the shit! get a nice watch!pinkfloyd
- they didn't know about itmonospaced
- It was discovered in 1930... or was it: http://www.businessi…ETM
- detritus0
- This makes me so happy. The first living being to notice Pluto has what remains of his matter resting on that which he discovered. Beautiful.jtb26
- Ahhh...but now it's a question of whether he was the first:
http://www.businessi…ETM
- pinkfloyd-2
- well that escalated quicklysarahfailin
- actions mean more than words. upvote my shitpinkfloyd
- Is that your arm? Are you that stupid?marychain
- Who's the one asking the stupid question?pinkfloyd
- I'll make it easy for you, no it's not my arm.pinkfloyd
- The hole left after satan raped his armset
- How to cover up a beating...Maaku
- Good for him. I'm sure it makes him happy. that's what counts. Don't be a cunt.jtb26
- CygnusZero4-8
- that's like 1 channel of a color picture man.
with 3 of them, you get rgb.uan - because it took a fucking long ass time for it to get to Pluto, I'm thinking? it's sending data back at 1kb/secmonospaced
- Also, the new images have come back color, and the planet is red like Mars.monospaced
- Damn, took 9 years to get there!monospaced
- You do appreciate that colour is wholly perceptual, right cygnus?detritus
- get that white balance correct in camera! lulzjaylarson
- the universe is so dark and creepypinkfloyd
- the camera that NASA is using is at least 10 years oldutopian
- it's gonna send back a bunch of multi-megapixel images, it's just gonna take over a year to get it allmonospaced
- its just one channel but from many spectrum, not only visible lightfeel
- There was no color photography 10 yrs ago. They put a Motorola razr in there not an iPhone.BH26
- 'tis true. I grew up in black and white until the late 90s. Poor parents, I guess.detritus
- Right because cameras work the same in deep space....marychain
- they domonospaced
- astronauts use regular DSLRs on "walks" in the vacuum all the timemonospaced
- Just be happy you have any pictures of Pluto you entitled fuck. What the fuck have you contributed humanity other than to troll endlessly?jtb26
- that's like 1 channel of a color picture man.
- feel4
good video to understand those B&W images
- I refuse to watch this.CygnusZero4
- Live in ignorance then.marychain
- ApeRobot1
- fuck yeah!monospaced
- $700 m for this?pablo28
- These are artist renders. I saw everyone geeking out over them on tumblr, haha.
Not real.set - awe... pretty convincing thoughmonospaced
- Wish they wereset
- I got a semi first time I sae themset
- hahaha! hey, we'll have real high-res images soonmonospaced
- i wonder when google pluto is gonna happen. they did one for mars and the moon as i recallscarabin
- Where is the photoshop tutorial for this?desmo
- fire up Bryce 7 Pro!uan
- if anything interesting or out the ordinary was found like they would let you know.yurimon
- detritus-2
- so its a dead, cold rock. how much did this program cost again?CygnusZero4
- Why's it only you vs. the rest of the interworld who seems to have a problem with this? Sure, the graphics are better on your XBone. Perhaps stick to that?detritus
- if it's motion blur they might be able to render it away in postuan
- New Horizons isn't only about Pluto.monospaced
- Im talking about the mission in general. Its a deal rock. We've always known that. What is this money being spent on?CygnusZero4
- We spent how much money for some black and white pictures of pluto???CygnusZero4
- $700000000pablo28
- Go look at the mission site and see the full scope. I'm not going to argue with someone completely blind to the wonder and pride most of us feel in this.detritus
- This admittedly quite costly mission cost 3.5x the revenue earned by the Kim Kardashian app. *shrug*detritus
- FUCK YEAH, AMERICA!
*waves confed... stars and stripes*detritus - This mission is not only about Pluto. How do you not understand this? It's about the extent and activity at the edge of our solar system, and beyond.monospaced
- Also, we're going to have full color, high res images and a SHIT FUCKING TON of data about all the details of the region. Good stuff, not just images.monospaced
- Thing is, it'll take a couple years for all that data to make it here at the rate and distance it's traveling.monospaced
- Colour needs to be processed on earth. The photos are b&w and the colour is data to be compiled later. More efficient to send. over the 2400 baud space modem.ETM
- fiver0
Shit is so inspiring. Makes me feel like a turd.
- Akagiyama0
- BOOM!!!!Ramanisky2
- Hopefully Disney will throw its hat in the space exploration ring. This is important stuff.Cosmodrome
- CygnusZero4-2
Here is what I was getting at. And I LOVE space exploration. I own tons of movies about this stuff. My issue is with modern NASA. They havent done a whole hell of a lot thats been very meaningful since the Apollo missions.
Seems like they blew their load with that, then just kinda dropped off a cliff. They had the space shuttle, some mars rovers, hubble, but no real significant accomplishment. Why are we spending all of this money to visit a dead rock? Spend that money on space exploration that will mean something to the human race.
Why is it taking so fucking long for this company who is stuck in quicksand to figure out how to get a colony going on Mars? Oh... thats right.... theyre spending god knows how much money to go to PLUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needs new leadership badly, that is ambitious. Ive had a big problem with NASA for a long time now and Im not alone, I discuss this shit with other space exploration fans on other boards. NASA is AWFUL now. They have been for a long time. We dont even have our own method of space transportation anymore. We use the Ruassian for that lmfaoooooo. Meanwhile theyre blowing up rockets left and right with Space-X. What a disgrace they are now.
- They're. Sending. A. Probe. To. The. End. Of. The. Solar. System.
And not like they did with the Voyagers.
I don't get what's not to get here.detritus - And they do these pointless missions... while the government slashes their budget. Stop visiting dead rocks then!CygnusZero4
- And your SpaceX ranting's ridiculous - you do realise that most, if not all, rockets sent into space by NASA were made by commercial concerns?detritus
- hey Cygnus, you think spending money on setting up habitation on Mars is better?monospaced
- Dead rocks? Cygnus you aware of any planets with life that wouldn't also take thousands of years to get to?ETM
- go take a look at what the mars rovers, the hubble and (you forgot to mention) the iss brought back to humanity.uan
- because the data this missions gathered is a big part of all humanity knows about space. it's not a movie!uan
- NASAs historical budget is around $500 billion. Either pretty efficient spending, or poorly funded for all the accomplishments they've achieved since 1958.IRNlun6
- And not to mention all the benefits to private industry.IRNlun6
- How do they get past the Van Allen Belts?robthelad
- Fuck!! At what point does it just become a massive success for humanity? Who cares 'who' gets us somewhere?Ianbolton
- I find this a pathetic rant when the whole global economy is fucked and we're still chucking fuck loads into space exploration. Science still wins.Ianbolton
- For Cygnus. I call what NASA been doing meaningful. See Cassini as well: https://www.youtube.…wagshaft
- For Lanbolton: http://minnesota.cbs…wagshaft
- Exactly wagshaft. Some people are mindless morons. May as well just become religious and forget science. ;-)Ianbolton
- They're. Sending. A. Probe. To. The. End. Of. The. Solar. System.
- maquito-2
- there will be a lot of high res photos, I believemonospaced
- I bought my first 3mp digital camera in 2000... Just saying.maquito
- Bitrate and ping delay means it'll be another 6½ years before they download all the data. Going to cost a fortune and totally wipe out NASA's monthly minutes.detritus
- Seriously people. Do you fucking know the AT&T roaming rates from Pluto!!ETM
- More serious, do some research and understand when and how the images are received, processed and released.ETM
- To channel Loius C.K.s everything is amazing bit, these photos travel 3 billion miles in 4 hours and you're upset the first ones are smaller and b&w?ETM
- docpoz1
holy shit its fucking pluto!!! we did it!!!