NASA Signal Check with New Horizons After Ultima Thule Flyby

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12:15 a.m.: New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper belt object.
9:45 a.m.: New Horizons Signal Acquisition from Ultima Thule Flyby (All Channels)
11:30 a.m.: New Horizons Post-Flyby Press Conference

Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2 p.m.: New Horizons press briefing on science results from Ultima Thule.

Thursday, Jan. 3, 2 p.m.: New Horizons press briefing on science results from Ultima Thule.

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson is a charismatic television host.

All those people are working without pay. Because Mexico will not pay for a wall.

Paywall.

Latest hi-res of Thule-- it's a "contact binary" --it looks like two donut holes stuck together.

When I first saw the image on tv it reminded me of the Schmoo.

Kinda.

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A zygote has started mitosis. We are witnessing the birth of Godzilla.

Snowman.

xoxoxoBruce;1022438 wrote:

Snowman.

Realized that when I saw the thumbnail of this jpeg on my desktop.

xoxoxoBruce;1022438 wrote:

Snowman.

They are simply downplaying the fear. Frosty never trampled Tokyo. When was the last time anyone saw a snowman in Tokyo?

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Meanwhile, China has landed on the moon and is sending back pictures of the dark side. You know, where all the moon men hide.

I think they'll discover that the moon is made of blue cheese and the green we see is just the effect of yellow sunlight on it.

Clodfobble;1022583 wrote:

Meanwhile, China has landed on the moon and is sending back pictures of the dark side. You know, where all the moon men hide.

And Amazons! There's Amazon women on the Moon!!

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Clodfobble;1022583 wrote:

Meanwhile, China has landed on the moon and is sending back pictures of the dark side.

Pink Floyd's been there, done that, got the Tshirt, and the album. :lol:

sexobon;1022584 wrote:

I think they'll discover that the moon is made of blue cheese and the green we see is just the effect of yellow sunlight on it.

They have already learned we are paying for it because so many Americans so hated America as to believe Saddam had WMDs. And other fictions inspired by a 'big dic' military iinfatuation.

Those same wackos then spent massively on obvious boondoggles such as Ares V, Orion, Altair, and the Constellation program. We know who invented and spent massively on that waste starting in 2001. So where is all that? It was built and then scrapped as useless. Some parts may be completely redesigned from scratch.

Reminds me of Motorola who completely designed the 68050 microprocessor. And when the design was completed, learned it could not work. (That's when Apple suddenly learned they had another problem to add to a potential bankruptcy.)

View the education of people who made decisions based upon their education. And then we also have Flint MI water - created by same people. And the Chevy Volt - with an engine that cannot even recharge its own battery.

While we cannot see obvious disasters until after it is all done (ie Saddam's WMDs), then Chinese financing of these fiascos pays for Chinese productive engineering. So who blames them rather than us? Another of those people who created all those disasters (ie Trump).

5% of NASA's budget pays for the so many successful and highly praised (unmanned) missions.

tw;1022957 wrote:

… While we cannot see obvious disasters until after it is all done ...

I've heard that the Chinese thought up an ingenious way to address this situation. They're going to start producing "misfortune" cookies.

xoxoxoBruce;1022945 wrote:

Pink Floyd's been there, done that, got the Tshirt, and the album. :lol:

:sniff: oh noes

tw;1022957 wrote:

5% of NASA's budget pays for the so many successful and highly praised (unmanned) missions.

What does the other 95% pay for?

Gravdigr;1022994 wrote:

What does the other 95% pay for?

Manned spaceflight. The part that does little science. When the Obama administration took over, that 5% may have since increased. Since they undid so many wacko extremist and business school inspired decisions from Cheney et al.

Even the newest long range Coast Guard cutters were rushed through using the same logic in 2000s. Were so defective that, if operating as intended, they might rip off their sterns. Another example of what happens when decisions are not made by people who come from where the work gets done.

sexobon;1022959 wrote:

They're going to start producing "misfortune" cookies.

Which proves solutions can always be found in the paper work. No wonder so many geniuses are found in the kitchen.

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