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Neat photo in the article. “LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman. Ultima Thule, as the small, icy object has been dubbed, was found to consist of two fused-together spheres, one of them three times bigger than the other, extending about 20 miles (32 kilometers) across. NASA’s New Horizons, the spacecraft that sent back pictures of Pluto 3½ years ago, swept past the ancient, mysterious object early on New Year’s Day. It is 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto…” https://apnews.com/52d17627726846dd8f234b6fa2715b48 BTW – Iittala makes a neat glass named Ultima Thule. https://www.finnishdesignshop....SEAQYASABEgJv2vD_BwE I have two sets of Iittala glasses (both very neat), but not the Ultima Thule model. Serious about crackers | ||
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Ultima Thule is also a very cool, long-running (since 1989) radio broadcast out of Australia. Available online as downloadable mp3, on Mixcloud.com and on PRX radio stations in the USA. http://www.ultimathule.info You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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Thank you. I watched online via YouTube the John Hopkins University Astro physics lab two part series on the new horizons spacecraft called “Summiting the solar system“. Pretty neat and shows the mismanagement of the spacecraft right before Pluto that put all hands on deck to fix the screwup of sending Instructions to the craft while it was also compressing the large photos from Pluto to crash CPU number one. Complete bolo. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I was disappointed to learn that they miscalculated the position of Ultima Thule, a rock 4 billion miles from here, by 600 whole miles. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Shameful, really. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Something wild is loose  |
Representing, I believe, a .00000015% error. Can we not do better than that, I ask you? NASA has gone to the dogs.... "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
^^^^^^ I figure it like this: 600 / 4,000,000,000 = 0.0000001.5 0.0000001.5 x 100 = 0.00001.5% But I’ve been wrong before… Serious about crackers | |||
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| Something wild is loose |
My bad, you're correct. 1/100,000th of a percent - that's even worse! "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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Helluva MOA 600 miles is There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the helpless. - Mark Twain The Gilded Age #CNNblackmail #CNNmemewar | |||
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I've clicked on this thread three times and haven't seen Uma Thurman yet.  ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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I will get by |
And to think, Wrong Way Corrigan missed California by a mare 31 hundred and 50 miles. Do not necessarily attribute someone's nasty or inappropriate actions as intended when it may be explained by ignorance or stupidity. | |||
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What interesting about Ultima Thule is that the object is pretty much unchanged from the first few moments (on a cosmic timescale) of the creation of our solar system, too far from the sun to be baked into different components. A pair of icy rocks smashed into each other, but rotated too slowly to spin apart again. I wonder what they'll find when all the telemetry is in. | |||
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| Fire begets Fire |
Smashed together at 1 mph. Also, “unchanged” is misleading as the red color indicates molecular compounds changed over time by radiation (kind of an oxidation-like process). There is a name for this but it escapes me at the moment; named for the guy that theorized/discovered it. All that said, interesting stuff! "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
The color could be beta-Carotene from what remains of the broken down carrot that was the nose.  SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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Yes, I should have said bumped together and fused. Unchanged: "Unlike comets and other objects that have been altered by the sun over time, Ultima Thule is in its pure, original state: It’s been in the deep-freeze Kuiper Belt on the fringes of our solar system from the beginning." | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
“NASA has released the clearest image yet of the 'space snowman' Ultima Thule, the most distant known world in our solar system at four billion miles (6bn km) away from Earth…” https://mol.im/a/6631627 Serious about crackers | |||
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