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how long before isis bomb it?

Tux you're such a little Earther

Of course its an incredible achievement, sending a probe off into space then 4.5 billion miles & 9 years later it finally arrives just off the surface & sends back high definition images of a new & strange world which until recently all we had was a blurry image from the Hubble telescope.

We are the first humans to be able to see the surface of Pluto, its amazing & inspiring, the collective knowledge of the Human race has yet again been furthered by science, of course it is an amazing achievement by the human race.

What we have learned from this fly by so far

One of Pluto's moons Hydra is made of mostly water ice which makes it quite an interesting target for future space missions

What we have learned of another of Pluto's moons Charon is just as exciting as Pluto, I wasnt expecting images of charon to be so clear & the scientists have been humerously calling the North pole of Charon ''Mordor''.
Charon appears geologically active, there are large parts of the surface which are smooth, now considering that charon & pluto have been bombarded by debris for billions of years a smooth surface quite rightly indicates a heated core.
This is important because it shows that planets hold their hot cores from their formation far longer than we ever expected.

Pluto also demonstrates a very smooth surface indicating again a geologically active planet to go a little further these are the first two planetary bodies to have active cores or at least recently (within the last 10 million years) that dont need tidal pulling to be active.
Pluto has 11,000ft tall Water Ice mountains.
A really nice touch is the heart on pluto which is actually frost is going to be named Tombaugh Reggio after Clyde Tombaugh the man who discovered pluto in 1930.

The Kuiper belt is clearly a fascinating place.

Ouzodan is a happy astronomer tonight.

Sex Panther 60% of the time it works every time

I feckin knew it.

Well said Ouzo.

Not sure I can agree with Tux that space (isn't it actually space/time?) is inert, what with big crazy rocks hurtling into the earth millions of years ago wiping out the Flintstones et al then allowing us to pop (time [is] a relative dimension in space) into existence.

Apparently more stuff to be released on Friday.

Taking the bungy jump since 1964. Never to see John Jackson in a shirt again

Sorry to see Lee Hills go, did we ever see Alex Marrow? We did January 2013

Exactly.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.