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Looking forward to that then :)
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Looking forward to that then :)
BlueTangerine
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^ we'll be extinct by then anyway won't we? So much to discover and so little time :)
It's quite nice to think that these space probes will be wandering around long after we're gone, as a race i mean. They might stop working but they'll physically exist for a long long time i bet, unless they go too close to black holes i suppose, or a star or smash into something.
It's quite nice to think that these space probes will be wandering around long after we're gone, as a race i mean. They might stop working but they'll physically exist for a long long time i bet, unless they go too close to black holes i suppose, or a star or smash into something.
Voyager has an "Introduction to Earth" welcome pack physically inside of it if it is ever picked up by an alien race in the future. Astronomically low odds but can't hurt. Our own little message in a bottle into the great cosmic ocean. Can see what they sent here:
http://webodysseum.com/art/116-images-of-the-voyager-golden-record/
They might seem a bit meaningless to us but any sufficiently advanced lifeform could decipher who we are, what we know about the Universe and where we are just from those images. As the physics of the Universe are the same everywhere, we can use things like wave distances as a way of translating into our number systems. It sort of provides a Universal translator. H20 here is no different from H20 at the opposite side of the Universe.
mind blowing distances
mind blowing distances, and the oort cloud is just a mere speck in galaxy terms never mind the universe
I mean ~150 years + the 10 it took to get to Pluto is just for New Horizons. Presumably if we were actually trying to get there then we'd find ways of shortening that. Don't forget that New Horizons is 15 years old at this point technologically - when its systems were been designed City were beating Blackburn and Mark Kennedy was hugging Joe Royle.
The REAL real issue that people don't like to talk about is money. We could go there tomorrow and quickly if there was enough money behind it. Unfortunately every kilogram you add on Earth means an extra ~$30,000 you need to spend to get it up there. Some engine designs just aren't feasible.
Now what we really need is to have a lab that assembles these satellites in Low Earth Orbit like the ISS then we'd not really be too bothered about a single launch cost and could spread it over many trips.
The REAL real issue that people don't like to talk about is money. We could go there tomorrow and quickly if there was enough money behind it. Unfortunately every kilogram you add on Earth means an extra ~$30,000 you need to spend to get it up there. Some engine designs just aren't feasible.
Now what we really need is to have a lab that assembles these satellites in Low Earth Orbit like the ISS then we'd not really be too bothered about a single launch cost and could spread it over many trips.
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New picture of Pluto and the planets
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dickie davies
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I love this fact
To try and understand the size and scale of our solar system
To represent the sun you would use a football
Walk 35 yards, place a peppercorn and that would represent the earth.
Walk a further three quarters of a mile and a full stop would represent Pluto
For the nearest star not in our solar system, you would have to travel 5000 miles from the football
To try and understand the size and scale of our solar system
To represent the sun you would use a football
Walk 35 yards, place a peppercorn and that would represent the earth.
Walk a further three quarters of a mile and a full stop would represent Pluto
For the nearest star not in our solar system, you would have to travel 5000 miles from the football
BlueTangerine
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Next month I want to see a zoomed in picture of Pluto and carved into the rock... the words "Level 1 completed"
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18 hours surely?
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