On the way to Pluto at last!

gnome · Post by **gnome** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:48 pm

Hey, a Stuckey's!!! Can we stop?

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:15 am

Heard the first bit of audio from the CD that is coming out 2015-08-14, to coincide with Closest Approach.
Maybe the CD should be titled Closest Approach. Nah. Anyhow, the orchestra sounds good.

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 4:14 am

Sleeping beauty awakens!

A signal is coming in from it.

Meanwhile, my record company has started their phase of the job...

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:14 pm

HONK motherfuckers, HONK!

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:14 am

it's a fucking rock. I shan't honk.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:27 am

It is certainly fucking Uranus, but that is not the point.

You are a honky. You will HONK!

--J.D.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:18 am

HONK!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/small_moon.png

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:59 am

We were supposed to start getting pictures already. Word on the street is that there's nothing to see yet—it's just a dot, but the autonomous navigation system is using the dot for course corrections.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:39 am

http://www.cnet.com/news/new-horizons-r ... -of-pluto/

A few dots. Charon is also visible.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:35 am

Venue Added to Registry of Historically Significant Planets

HONK!

--J.D.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:23 am

Indeed. :) HONK!

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:12 am

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files ... -final.gif
Pluto and Charon orbiting each other, shot by NH a couple weeks ago and downlinked to Earth some time since then.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:35 pm

Ain't science grand?

Oh, and HONK!

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:10 pm

NASA expect to have pictures better than Hubble's by the end of this month

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:43 pm

Hubble, Bubble, who gives a HONK?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:38 pm

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/whereisnh/overv ... 1_0192.jpg
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Where-i ... /index.php
(NASA sports graphics like something out of the 70es…)

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 1:52 am

Don't we now know enough about the solar system, all its moons and asteroids, plutoids, Abdul's anuses and the rest to have concluded that there's fuck all out there of any value to humanity?

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 2:43 am

Maybe.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:06 am

You may diminish the importance of Uranus. . . .

--J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:30 am

http://images.hngn.com/data/images/full ... .png?w=650

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/plutos-fir ... ons-probe/
Honk!!

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:06 pm

http://i.imgur.com/DZfjLXY.jpg

There's an AMA on reddit with the guy who killed Pluto. Let's all go there and give him what for! :x

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comment ... planetary/

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:05 pm

[video][/video]

:|

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 6:25 pm

Doctor X wrote:You may diminish the importance of Uranus. . . .

--J.D.

Seriously, when I was a very wee camel, my mother made my brother and me watch the first moon landing, (I was four years old), and told us we must remember this because it was so important. I complied, and it's one of the few memories of early childhood that remain in my aging noggin. It also inspired a great interest in space exploration and love of science fiction.

The love of science fiction has not faded but my interest in space exploration has gradually faded to almost zero.

"Yeah, yeah, you found another rock, well done guys. ZZZZZ"

Just about sums it up.

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:54 pm

When I was that age, I thought we were all going to space really soon. So I worried about things that depend on gravity to function, like cars, and cups, and grand pianos.

Later, I got nauseous from riding an airplane through turbulence. It dawned on me that space would be like that. :Green: :BlowChunks: :oldman:

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:21 pm

Hmmm. Now you've got me wondering if harmonicas would work in zero gravity.

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:23 pm

asthmatic camel wrote:Hmmm. Now you've got me wondering if harmonicas would work in zero gravity.

Only when you're not retching

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:28 pm

That could give an interesting variation on "throat vibrato". :)

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:23 am

When we were discussing Uranus?

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264 ... e13102.gif

--J.D.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:53 am

Sicko.

I was wondering if it would be possible to eject a multicoloured yawn through all ten holes of a diatonic harmonica at the same time.

On second thoughts, perhaps it's me who's the sicko.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:18 am

For your entertainment, I took these pics at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry. They really do have a large model Enterprise hanging from the ceiling in the aircraft hall. :)

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... fkhvyp.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... hx75ge.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... dpz7nv.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... snhsso.jpg

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:54 pm

That's a big bucket of Science being mixed up with a bunch of science fiction. It is a museum of science, right?

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:32 pm

Heh. It's actually a fantastic museum, trains, planes, automobiles, all sorts of industrial machinery including rebuilt, working steam engines, a mock up of Roman sewer works and much, much more. It does incorporate the very special Mancunian sense of humour.

Here's a few more for you.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... vpoptb.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... vhriyx.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... 3hfhfz.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... 6jb6bm.jpg

And some Abdul porn. :)

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... nkmpdp.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... 2s5obw.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/ ... jxacip.jpg

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Thu May 28, 2015 8:22 pm

Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu May 28, 2015 9:32 pm

DrMatt wrote:Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.

http://i1.wp.com/www.universetoday.com/ ... y-only.jpg

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Fri May 29, 2015 2:03 am

Witness wrote:
DrMatt wrote:Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.
http://i1.wp.com/www.universetoday.com/ ... y-only.jpg

Not very round, is it? Looking more like an unfinished Death Star.

http://www.aereo.jor.br/wp-content/uplo ... h-Star.jpg

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Fri May 29, 2015 3:39 am

HONK!

--J.D.

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Fri May 29, 2015 8:37 am

So you're saying the Maltese Falcon is a planet.
Some people's kids.....

gnome · Post by **gnome** » Fri May 29, 2015 4:34 pm

Bruce wrote:
Witness wrote:
DrMatt wrote:Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.
http://i1.wp.com/www.universetoday.com/ ... y-only.jpg
Not very round, is it? Looking more like an unfinished Death Star.

http://www.aereo.jor.br/wp-content/uplo ... h-Star.jpg

See, they were right when they said "That's no planet!"

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Fri May 29, 2015 9:00 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote:
gnome wrote:See, they were right when they said "That's no planet!"
:HoppingMad: :HoppingMad2: :HoppingMad: :HoppingMad2: :HoppingMad: :HoppingMad2: :HoppingMad: :HoppingMad2: :HoppingMad: :HoppingMad2: :HoppingMad:

Wot, you that down on Henny Youngman?

hammegk · Post by **hammegk** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:37 am