New Horizons Funnies and Other Stuff, Miscellaneous Ramblings |
New Horizons Funnies and Other Stuff, Miscellaneous Ramblings |
Jul 13 2015, 09:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Found this in an Emily's tweet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gFo4u_ADiw4
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Jul 14 2015, 04:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 444 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
There are two obvious times to observe the tradition of eating peanuts for good luck during the moments of greatest peril. July 14 @ 7:05 am Eastern Time, the moment of closest approach, and July 14 @ 9:02 pm Eastern Time, the scheduled arrival of the “phone home” signal.
I’ll be observing the tradition at both times, just to be on the safe side. |
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Jul 14 2015, 10:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Ramblings... When I was born there were no satellites in orbit... ...What will ever happen next? I recall all that, too. I remember being in a Chinese restaurant downtown a couple of days after the Mariner-4 flyby of Mars marveling at newspaper presentations of the new Mars images. These were 4x5 copies of the facsimile-grade digital images, printed on cheap newspaper rag with a coarse halftone. And this was wonderful and a state-of-the-art presentation of the data. And now we are watching it "Live" and twiddling our thumbs waiting for the Light-Time delay to deliver the images. How times have changed. And looking up Mariner-4 to jog my memory, I find that the flyby was done of July 14-15 1965, a half century ago. And downlink of the data and images of the flyby was concluded on August 3. Some things can't change... --Bill -------------------- |
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Jul 14 2015, 01:52 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
Oh my, that didn't take long:
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Jul 14 2015, 02:54 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Jul 14 2015, 03:26 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...yeah, I caught that live. Cool that the janitor was wearing a NH T-shirt as well!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 14 2015, 03:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Alan gave NH 2 chances out of 10.000 to hit a piece of debris... This guy is doing his best to lower the risk
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Jul 14 2015, 05:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I dont know how it is in other countries but here in France, each day of the year is dedicated to a Saint. I couldn't believe when I checked for tomorrow, July 15th, that the day will be dedicated to .... Donald!
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Jul 14 2015, 05:10 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 15-February 14 Member No.: 7141 |
So, I heard that the New Horizons trajectory will allow for a Pluto observation during solar occultation. Given the shape of the bright terrain seen in the flyby, would this be considered a "total eclipse of the heart"?
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Jul 14 2015, 07:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
First images interpretation: http://xkcd.com/1551/
I love the jpeg plumes... -------------------- |
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Jul 14 2015, 07:38 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
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Jul 14 2015, 08:30 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 14 2015, 08:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2082 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Plus a new 'What If?' that we're all hoping will be obsolete in a few hours:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/ |
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Jul 15 2015, 02:50 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 6-July 15 From: Russia, Saint Petersburg Member No.: 7559 |
This one's pretty cute
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Jul 15 2015, 04:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2428 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
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