New Horizons

[Procne]

tbh I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like we will learn anything groundbreaking and there are already 2 other probes which have taveled further away from the Earth

[vatas]

Born too late to explore the Earth.

Born too soon to explore the stars.

Born just in time to play Salem.

This is fine.

[Dallane]

tbh I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like we will learn anything groundbreaking and there are already 2 other probes which have taveled further away from the Earth

we have more modern and precise instruments on this probe.

[Shrapnel]

Born too late to explore the Earth.

Born too soon to explore the stars.

Born just in time to play Salem.

This is fine.

But.. mah Dank Memes?

Ontopic:

This is awesome, Nine years ago a rocket was launched into space carrying a camera so that 9 years from then, right now, they could take a picture of Pluto.. Awesome..

[HolyLight]

It's things like this that give me hope that one day the world will be a better place.

It won't be too much longer before we figure out how to power interstellar ships. I'll be on the first one out of here I can get on. It'll be like the colonial period all over again, but this time we won't have to worry about the King's Taxes to burden us.

Watch the newer films, like interstella and the film were there is an artificial ring of paradise around the earth (forgot name), you will notice its still only the mega super rich who explore space.

Did i mention Avatar? All privert sector *****.

The world will never be a "Better place", but the **** of the forces will extend across the stars rather than around the current globe

[MagicManICT]

the film were there is an artificial ring of paradise around the earth (forgot name)

The one with Jodi Foster and Matt Damon? Elysium (great movie, I think). Space will either first be populated by the very rich (luxury getaway) or the poor (suckers who can't find work and have no other option to take care of family), much like the colonial periods that various nations have gone through over the centuries.

[HolyLight]

the film were there is an artificial ring of paradise around the earth (forgot name)

The one with Jodi Foster and Matt Damon? Elysium (great movie, I think). Space will either first be populated by the very rich (luxury getaway) or the poor (suckers who can't find work and have no other option to take care of family), much like the colonial periods that various nations have gone through over the centuries.

You mean the rich leading the poor ? sacrificing them first if required ?

Sounds like times never change and never will. Yea Elysium

[Dallane]

Elysium got A LOT of hate. I love that movie so much.

[lachlaan]

This is impressive if only as a reminder of our increasingly accurate space skill-shots. Always nice having new tech reaffirm old tech's finding. And imagine that today's tech is even better than the stuff that was equipped onto the probe 9 years ago. So clearer shots to be had later.

[TotalyMeow]

tbh I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like we will learn anything groundbreaking and there are already 2 other probes which have taveled further away from the Earth

We might learn something groundbreaking. You never know. That's a big part of why things like this are being done.

There's also the fact that Kupier belt objects formed from whatever was there as the Sun was forming and haven't changed much since. Spectroscopy, measurements of the color and brightness of Pluto and Charon's surfaces, their geology or lack thereof, and the upcoming test of Pluto's atmosphere will all provide clues to the exact nature of Kuiper objects. Maybe that information isn't directly useful right now, but it might be in the future, and who knows what impact some future theory might have on us?

Mercury's strange and inexplicable orbit baffled people for 200 years after Newton's Laws failed to completely explain its precession. Then along comes Einstein's theory of Relativity and suddenly the oddness is completely explained, lending immediate credence to a new theory that changed a whole list of things in our daily lives. Gravitational lensing, also an astronomical phenomenon, was another thing used to test the theory. Einstein's theories weren't immediately accepted as genius, you know, many scientists thought they were a load of crap.