Date: 21/11/2014 05:57:59
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 631848
Subject: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

NASA’s New Horizons probe is about to wake up from a long slumber and get ready for its highly anticipated Pluto flyby next summer.

New Horizons is scheduled to emerge from a 99-day hibernation on Dec. 6, then gear up for a six-month Pluto encounter that peaks with the first-ever close flyby of the mysterious dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.

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Date: 21/11/2014 07:55:54
From: Divine Angel
ID: 631857
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

yay!

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Date: 21/11/2014 12:20:20
From: dv
ID: 631996
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

Next year will be huge: Ceres, Pluto and some nice closeups of a comet as it goes phat.

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Date: 21/11/2014 14:54:55
From: dv
ID: 632064
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

May is when it will start sending pics better than has been obtained by Hubble.

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Date: 21/11/2014 14:56:45
From: JudgeMental
ID: 632065
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

must be a tense few hours after they send the wake up signal until they get a response.

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Date: 21/11/2014 15:04:21
From: Cymek
ID: 632067
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

JudgeMental said:


must be a tense few hours after they send the wake up signal until they get a response.

Indeed and its space exploration even just in our solar system that’s so time consuming compared to out life span, some of the people who instigate the project could be dead before its arrives

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Date: 21/11/2014 15:43:24
From: dv
ID: 632099
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

I wonder if I’ll see a mission to Eris in my time?

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Date: 21/11/2014 15:46:08
From: Bubblecar
ID: 632104
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

dv said:


I wonder if I’ll see a mission to Eris in my time?

I hope I live to see B.C. walking on Saturn.

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Date: 21/11/2014 15:49:31
From: Bubblecar
ID: 632106
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

But yeah, it’ll be great to see what surprises Pluto has in store.

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Date: 21/11/2014 15:56:11
From: furious
ID: 632114
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

All they will find is a small asteroid inhabited by a strange old man who repeatedly claims that nothing is true, though he will later found to be lying…

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Date: 21/11/2014 16:02:27
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 632119
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

furious said:

  • But yeah, it’ll be great to see what surprises Pluto has in store.

All they will find is a small asteroid inhabited by a strange old man who repeatedly claims that nothing is true, though he will later found to be lying…

“https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3256/5705650156_50022a7e4d_z.jpg”

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Date: 21/11/2014 16:02:51
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 632121
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

Postpocelipse said:


furious said:
  • But yeah, it’ll be great to see what surprises Pluto has in store.

All they will find is a small asteroid inhabited by a strange old man who repeatedly claims that nothing is true, though he will later found to be lying…


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Date: 21/11/2014 17:09:59
From: Dropbear
ID: 632160
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

Bubblecar said:


dv said:

I wonder if I’ll see a mission to Eris in my time?

I hope I live to see B.C. walking on Saturn.

Id like to see BC pounding Uranus

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Date: 21/11/2014 17:11:24
From: Bubblecar
ID: 632161
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

Dropbear said:


Id like to see BC pounding Uranus

Dear oh dear.

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Date: 21/11/2014 17:28:47
From: dv
ID: 632170
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

Dropbear said:


Bubblecar said:

dv said:

I wonder if I’ll see a mission to Eris in my time?

I hope I live to see B.C. walking on Saturn.

Id like to see BC pounding Uranus

We’ve been seeing some great anus related jokes on the forum today.

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Date: 21/11/2014 17:30:10
From: furious
ID: 632172
Subject: re: NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

it’s a good year for it…

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