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On July 14th, after a nine and a half year journey, the New Horizons space probe will make its first fly by of Pluto, giving us our first ever glimpse of what the dwarf planet. It's already giving us the clearest pictures we've ever had of Pluto:    So are we gonna get excited or are we gonna gently caress this up by whining about how NASA's largesse is an affront to all the world's poor and needy? 
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Jun 19, 2015 09:31
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Does pluto have a moon? I didn't know that.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:33
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With the money this cost we could have fed every poverty stricken child in the world for at least 4 days.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:34
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EvilGenius posted:With the money this cost we could have fed every poverty stricken child in the world for at least 4 days. I doubt that, but, nevertheless, our only chance of surviving as a species is space exploration. We have to expand our horizons or die.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:37
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EvilGenius posted:With the money this cost we could have fed every poverty stricken child in the world for at least 4 days. Good point. If we just kill all the poor kids, we could be sending out a new kick rear end probe every four days.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:38
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looks a little lopsided
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Jun 19, 2015 09:42
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EvilGenius posted:With the money this cost we could have fed every poverty stricken child in the world for at least 4 days. ahaha ahahahaha ahahahah ahahahaha. there will always be starving children. there will always be war, famine and death. and only with the global wealth disparity can you even afford to post this poo poo using a computer and internet connection. but go on raging against the machine.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:47
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i thought this was about Girl.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:48
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waste of time theres nothing there its not even a planet anymore because its so poo poo
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Jun 19, 2015 09:52
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pumped for these google map style photos
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Jun 19, 2015 09:53
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EvilGenius posted:With the money this cost we could have fed every poverty stricken child in the world for at least 4 days. Nasa.gov posted:Total Cost: About $700 million (including spacecraft and instrument development, launch vehicle, mission operations, data analysis, and education/public outreach) The F-35 is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollars and practically tailor-made to dramatically overrun on costs. This poo poo went to Pluto for less than half.
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Jun 19, 2015 10:25
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Do It Once Right posted:The F-35 is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollars and practically tailor-made to dramatically overrun on costs. This poo poo went to Pluto for less than half. Uh how am I going to bomb people with pictures of Pluto genius
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Jun 19, 2015 10:28
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fount of knowledge posted:Uh how am I going to bomb people with pictures of Pluto genius How the gently caress is the F-35 going to bomb anyone anytime in the next 10 years?
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Jun 19, 2015 10:29
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You guys ever read that book "The Dark Beyond the Stars"? That's what's going to happen to us.
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Jun 19, 2015 10:34
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EvilGenius posted:With the money this cost we could have fed every poverty stricken child in the world for at least 4 days. And then on day 5 they'll be hungry again.
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Jun 19, 2015 10:37
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Blurred posted:So are we gonna get excited or are we gonna gently caress this up by whining about how NASA's largesse is an affront to all the world's poor and needy? Did you realize that the breakroom at NASA has a FRIDGE in it?! THE loving HUBRIS OF IT ALL!
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Jun 19, 2015 10:42
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If you want NASA back vote Hillary 2016
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Jun 19, 2015 10:51
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SweetKarma posted:Does pluto have a moon? I didn't know that. It has five that we know of. I remember my science teacher, Mr. Overlin, announcing the discovery of the first one to us in class at the beginning of the year. He was pretty stoked that something that cool had been discovered, and announced with confidence that we would find other bodies out there, that were at least as large as Pluto. This was in 1978.
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Jun 19, 2015 10:55
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Do It Once Right posted:The F-35 is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollars and practically tailor-made to dramatically overrun on costs. This poo poo went to Pluto for less than half.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:00
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SweetKarma posted:Does pluto have a moon? I didn't know that. charon is large enough relative to pluto that the center of gravity between the two bodies is a point between the two, which means that pluto orbits a point outside of itself  woooo the sssolar system ooooowns
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Jun 19, 2015 11:05
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Mr. Pumroy posted:charon is large enough relative to pluto that the center of gravity between the two bodies is a point between the two, which means that pluto orbits a point outside of itself This is why you can't be a planet anymore, Pluto.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:06
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Elukka posted:Your math is a little off. This poo poo went to Pluto for less than 0.05%. holy poo poo, I read trillion as billion. Yeah, I'm 110% pro-NASA. If NASA wants a 20 million dollar ping pong tournament, I'm okay with that. On a nostalgic note, I got to hear a keynote speech years ago from Steve Squyres (who led up NASA's mars rover program), and the stuff they managed to accomplish with their budget was loving amazing. It exceeded all expectations 10 times over. NASA knows how to get poo poo done for cheap.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:06
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I say rename the place Bluto. Then it would come out and stomp our probes.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:08
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Universe Master posted:This is why you can't be a planet anymore, Pluto. Do It Once Right posted:holy poo poo, I read trillion as billion. probably as most people will give their right bollock to work there. It is amazing how that increases efficiency.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:09
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Pluto and Charon are one face to each other and pretty close. In theory you could run a cable from one to the other. Stephen Baxter wrote a story that used this idea but the cables were living matter.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:10
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zimboe posted:Pluto and Charon are one face to each other and pretty close. In theory you could run a cable from one to the other. stephen baxter is a loving nerd who doesn't know how to write people or interesting characters but his short stories are okay
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Jun 19, 2015 11:14
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i guess its fine if it taking some parting shots on the way out of the solar system, but this probe better have photoed something important, like Jupiter or whatever before hand. sending a probe to photo pluto on its own is a waste of good money, and i love space
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Jun 19, 2015 11:27
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Neurosis posted:stephen baxter is a loving nerd who doesn't know how to write people or interesting characters but his short stories are okay Agreed.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:31
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Not the speech about the Mars Rover that I saw, nor as exciting, but good nonetheless. Also, I'm now very impatient to see Pluto so I hope re-watching old Mars Rover vids can hold me over for a month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJ_xZ1kjiA Bill Nye makes an appearance late in the presentation.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:37
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Neurosis posted:stephen baxter is a loving nerd who doesn't know how to write people or interesting characters but his short stories are okay yeah i agree but i go into his books cos i know this ideas are going to be excellent, once your expectations are calibrated he's cool.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:48
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Do It Once Right posted:The F-35 is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollars and practically tailor-made to dramatically overrun on costs. This poo poo went to Pluto for less than half. So what you're saying is we could scrap the F-35 and we could have fed the kids for nearly ten days. Or at least get some nicer food in for 4, like maybe duck instead of chicken.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:59
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Fister Roboto posted:And then on day 5 they'll be hungry again. This guy gets it.
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Jun 19, 2015 11:59
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EvilGenius posted:So what you're saying is we could scrap the F-35 and we could have fed the kids for nearly ten days. Or at least get some nicer food in for 4, like maybe duck instead of chicken. I fully and shamefully admit my bad math - The pluto probe is about to accomplish its scientific goal for less than 0.5% of the cost of a jet that still doesn't work, can't fly, bursts into flame, has firmware which won't fire its ordinance, a helmet which suffocates its pilot, cannot endure lightning(lol), needs a special runway to take off of so it doesn't melt the asphaltic concrete, and a million other problems. With savvy logistics, every child on earth could probably be fed until adulthood if the F-35 didn't exist.
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Jun 19, 2015 12:52
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genesplicer posted:It has five that we know of. I remember my science teacher, Mr. Overlin, announcing the discovery of the first one to us in class at the beginning of the year. He was pretty stoked that something that cool had been discovered, and announced with confidence that we would find other bodies out there, that were at least as large as Pluto. This was in 1978. dude owned
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Jun 19, 2015 12:54
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Pluto is cool and all but they should be investigating the planet Jupiter where the dead are resurrected and an interstellar garden of eden is hidden behind a veil of storms and gas
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Jun 19, 2015 12:55
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I would have drawn some smudgy pics of a white blob for only 350million. NASA are idiots.
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Jun 19, 2015 12:57
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Do It Once Right posted:I fully and shamefully admit my bad math - The pluto probe is about to accomplish its scientific goal for less than 0.5% of the cost of a jet that still doesn't work, can't fly, bursts into flame, has firmware which won't fire its ordinance, a helmet which suffocates its pilot, cannot endure lightning(lol), needs a special runway to take off of so it doesn't melt the asphaltic concrete, and a million other problems. OR we could send a probe to Alpha Centauri.
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Jun 19, 2015 13:26
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EvilGenius posted:OR we could send a probe to Alpha Centauri. Hell, for that price let's send three.
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Jun 19, 2015 13:37
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EvilGenius posted:OR we could send a probe to Alpha Centauri. The thermic energy in 1.5 trillion dollarbills would be enough* to send a Moon sized colonyship to AC on a reasonable timescale. *give or take
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Jun 19, 2015 13:37
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spud posted:I would have drawn some smudgy pics of a white blob for only 350million. No poo poo, us spuds are like rocket scientists compared to those idiots.
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