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I said come in! posted:That is true, but we as a species I think is still destined to die out and we will do so on this planet. All of our achievements someday will be lost and no one will know about them. That sounds depressing as hell, but it's just a fact of the universe or some poo poo. So why not just die and destroy everything now since it'll all go to naught anyways.
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Xelkelvos posted:So why not just die and destroy everything now since it'll all go to naught anyways. OTOH why?
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"Why not give up" isn't much of an argument against the pointlessness of everything. It's not an argument about what to do, it's just a description of how things are. Ultimately, you will die and everyone who ever mattered to you will also cease to exist and shortly after, no one will remember you who you were, what you love and what drives you, or even care to know. If you're struggling with this I recommend the Everest thread. Or more time looking at the rest of the universe (like these awesome photos of Pluto we're all about to enjoy). Also my boner is dwarfing this planet right now.
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Page Downfall posted:"Why not give up" isn't much of an argument against the pointlessness of everything. It's not an argument about what to do, it's just a description of how things are. Ultimately, you will die and everyone who ever mattered to you will also cease to exist and shortly after, no one will remember you who you were, what you love and what drives you, or even care to know. has your boner cleared the neighborhood around its orbit?
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im going to jack it to photos of pluto and its moons
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Parallax Scroll posted:im going to jack it to photos of pluto and its moons  
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I could take a better picture with my phone and they spent how much hurling bits of the earth off into space? Wanamingo posted:Your phone can't take a picture and then upload it to a server that's several billion miles away Also your phone was probably not built a decade ago with 20-year-old technology
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Maybe we should figure out how to shrink space. How're we suppose to get anywhere when space is so loving big.
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Blurred posted:Processed pic w/ colour: 
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so if we're seeing charon orbit like that from the probe's perspective i guess the planet system is tilted on its side towards the sun? neat i didn't know that
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I'm embarrassed and concerned by the number of care lords in this thread who think space is actually real and not fake/gay.
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pluto the planet in space
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Parallax Scroll posted:pluto the planet in space
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Can't tell if that's an extremely slow UFO or an extremely fast moon
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Latest unprocessed pic: Some very clear surface features on both bodies now. Too early to make any predictions about what we might be seeing, but it's encouraging to know that these won't be barren, featureless worlds. Should also stress that all these unprocessed pics will be black and white until New Horizons gets much closer to Pluto, but Pluto in actuality is a reddish colour. Also interesting is this processed pic of Charon. It has a large, dark spot on its northern pole, so is starting to give off a bit of a death star vibe:  And here is a picture of an African child, starving and left to die by NASA and its greedy plutocrats: 
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thats a potplant
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show the african child the cool photos of pluto, he will understand
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Someone add some herbs and spices to this pot
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Something that's been bothering me for a while; since the Pluto-Charon barycenter lies outside both bodies, what happens if say a spacecraft attempts to fly through the barycenter? Does it get crushed or something?
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how long is the next flyby? or where does the orbit go after it zooms past? it comes back to pluto, right?
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ill make the website
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12 days until the flyby! The Earth's poor remain malnourished! toggle posted:how long is the next flyby? or where does the orbit go after it zooms past? it comes back to pluto, right? Unfortunately not. The mission was basically a choice between a shorter journey and a quick flyby, and a long journey and the possibility of getting the spacecraft into orbit around Pluto. They opted for the former, which means that the spacecraft is moving much too quickly to fall into an orbit. The entire surface of Pluto and Charon will still be mapped, but the highest resolution mapping will only be possible on whichever sides of Charon and Pluto are facing the spacecraft when it makes its closest pass of the system. After that they're hoping to use the spacecraft to explore other trans-Neptunian objects. At the moment they've identified three possible Kuiper belt objects that they'd be hoping to reach by 2018-19, but it's yet to be decided which they'll visit. (wiki link). Unfortunately the other dwarf planets beyond Pluto (Eris, Sedna etc.) aren't accessible.
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It'll zoom past at a delta-v of 13km/s so there's no chance of capture. Any intercept orbit that allowed capture would either have to be terribly slow - a Hohmann transfer to Pluto would take more than 100 years. Or use so much fuel that the mission would cost billions - to come to a stop from 13km/s would require a rocket consisting out of 95% fuel, and to launch that rocket to Pluto you'd need to load that on top of another rocket that also consists out of 95% fuel.
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i have this feeling of incredible destruction, like we're about to learn something terrible about ourselves
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Mr. Pumroy posted:i have this feeling of incredible destruction, like we're about to learn something terrible about ourselves look in the mirror lol
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plutonium
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Stugazi posted:Just occurred to me, what is that spacecraft using for fuel? atoms
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Stugazi posted:Just occurred to me, what is that spacecraft using for fuel? Food for starving kids.
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Stugazi posted:Just occurred to me, what is that spacecraft using for fuel? http://energy.gov/ne/articles/new-horizons-mission-powered-space-radioisotope-power-systems
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king salmon posted:plutonium appropriate
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Something that's been bothering me for a while; since the Pluto-Charon barycenter lies outside both bodies, what happens if say a spacecraft attempts to fly through the barycenter? Does it get crushed or something? A bary center is just the center of mass. Every two objects has a barycenter. Also gravity is not strong.
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wow who gives a gently caress about an ice cube in space we need to be working on getting a really old guy w/ drool probs elected president come on goons
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