PLUTO, BITCHES

new horizons passed uranus not too long ago and is now headed straight for pluto and beyond the kaiper belt. much cooler than all this mars talk so- discuss

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

cool, but it won't arrive until 2015. i don't get the comparison with the mars mission.

AND it's not even a planet ya dufus.

  On 8/9/2012 at 4:59 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

AND it's not even a planet ya dufus.

  On 8/9/2012 at 4:56 AM, data said:

cool, but it won't arrive until 2015. i don't get the comparison with the mars mission.

pluto is more awesome. and to the guy who said it's not a planet: you'll eat those words in 2015

Why is Pluto more awesome? And your saying its gonna be destroyed in 2015?

Seems like Pluto is on its way out, so whats the point of it?

pluto is full of reptiles. fact.

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:53 AM, yek said:

pluto is full of reptiles. fact.

Mosty zistles though, at least according to the National Geographic Solar System book I had as a kid.

trippy.

Them Lizards is High!

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:57 AM, joshuatx said:

  On 8/9/2012 at 5:53 AM, yek said:

pluto is full of reptiles. fact.

 

Mosty zistles though, at least according to the National Geographic Solar System book I had as a kid.

 

Let's make this a cheesy alien pictures thread instead.

  On 8/9/2012 at 10:30 AM, Npoess said:

I'll just make the racist joke now - HARHAR ILLEGAL ALIEN DERPA DERP

  On 8/9/2012 at 8:27 AM, gaarg said:

So Harry starts feeling around on those trees and sez 'I think we on Pluto.' I said, 'Harry, how can you tell?' He sez, 'From the bark, you dummy!'

Puto

pluto's kinda boring (at least in the relative scale of other planet(oid)s in the solar system, all of which are exciting). there are a whole buncha planetoids out that far around the same size, like eris (which is actually bigger than pluto), makemake (also probably bigger), and haumea. all just icy rocks of varying composition.

now, if we could get a probe out to the oort cloud, i'd be VERY interested. but the oort cloud is a LONG way out.

  On 8/10/2012 at 12:56 AM, kaini said:

pluto's kinda boring (at least in the relative scale of other planet(oid)s in the solar system, all of which are exciting).

It's beautiful if you imagine a small icy rock with big moon, far out there where is so cold. And you see the sun like we see Venus from Earth, and you can't quite see the inner planets, they're so small. Neptune and Pluto disrupt each other's orbits, making Neptune the farthest planet for a while. Then you remember Earth and the shit going on there...

How dare you call pluto boring, you have a picture of mike the cleaner as your avatar and he is bald like a planet and you don't find him boring.

Pluto is more interesting than mike the cleaner.