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barf1189
That image took 24 years to load
ReturnOfFreudberg
looks real! lol
zeroexistence
Is the left picture real or artist's impression?
custardlightning
Sugarcrotch
I don't see any plutonians
UncleLenny1
NightfallEverdark
That looks more and more like a planet to me.
ShinySephiroth
TheAssassinArtemisEntreri
Yeah, artist enhanced pluto tho. Actual Pluto: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-spacecraft-displays-pluto-s-big-heart-0
TheAziz
how many times do I have to say that right one isn't in visible colors
HouseOfEvil
Not even 2018 since that epic new photo is a couple years old now.
allisonisrad
Pluto really got its shit together.
lewaq
Fuuck, 1994 is 24 years ago!
PrinceOfSpace
Interestingly enough you see a similar pattern with video games
Debriatus
I fucking love science.
BrandonKnotts365
Watching the same video on YouTube vs live leak
MrBoopyPutthole
How Asians see uranus
websurfintime
Pluto's a f*ckin planet...bitch
43rdpresident
Ok Jerry.
Monstarrdr
More bullshit lol
stippet
8 bit 4k proof that NASA is master at CGI
Cranbananarama
Space graphics have gotten pretty good.
PanicAtTheEverywhere
I did my "planet report" in 3rd grade on Pluto, so I refuse to not consider it a planet. Loyalty is everything.
RoscoeLuvsBosco
That’s all we got for 24 years of hard work?
ItsCaptain0bvious
Pluto 1936
mczack13
Good one!!! :)
87bru
This type of animal cruelty has no place on imgur! Shame!
FlawlessJustice
Pluto 157 BC
TheMightyKibbless
What a fucking dick move.
henryclairmont
A little known fact is that they used the exact same camera in both years and just got closer
DukeDarkwood
Pluto 1930, beat that! http://arizonaexperience.org/sites/arizonaexperience.org/files/base_images/lowell-pluto_pluto-discovery-plates.jpg
moofunk
Not far off. Pluto was discoverd in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Wish he could have seen the 2018 picture.
fuckthisishard
Why does the dog have fewer fingers than the mouse?
supersexylittleman
I met the lady who helped name for the planet. She said the disney dog had nothing to do with the naming. just thought this was interesting.
hip2bsquare
StopBack
That hurt to watch
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
Fuck me, that hurts
SilentMajority420
"All around me are familiar faces..."
winnerofcompetitionsman
The very first bamboozle.
ThereAreBoobsInMyFavourites
Japan vs America
wyatt8740
lol
TheRustySheriff
What did Pluto do in 94' that meant it had to hide its identity?
yourebreathtaking
Planet / not planet
jbcars4life
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind. Pluto will always be family
inaplasticcup
Plant / Dwarf planet. Dwarf planet is still a type of planet.
cousteau
Not really; it just happens to have "planet" in its name. These guys love to give shit misleading names.
DickTipPapercut
i mean if you're going to call pluto a planet theres a few other bodies with just as much mass out there that would also have to be planets
DvaeDrne
I have a an entire litter of puppies with much lower mass than their mother - All Dogs.
dinosaurinsweatpants
Technically an object with less mass than Pluto can be a planet if it has enough mass to be spherical/round and meets other 2 requirements
TheresAGermanWordForThat
And we should. Don’t mess with Eris, as the Trojans learned.
Cornflakes91
the positive thing is that pluto is now the name giver to a whole class of objects \o/ :D
yourebreathtaking
Is that a momma joke?
DukeDarkwood
Not unless your mother's name is Eris, which is the largest Plutoid/Dwarf Planet (a bit bigger than Pluto itself), and has a moon, too.
cousteau
But not the most massive.
DukeDarkwood
Actually, I did some looking up, and we got it backwards. Seems Pluto is largest by radius (and therefore diameter and volume), while Eris
cousteau
It can perfectly be.
sadduckfan
Red, white, and blue huh. Looks like Pluto is destined for some freedom.
Lamplord
Is this where the sub-species of Bird-person, Eagle-person, come from?
DogeButt
Not the actual colours, they shifted the spectrum to see infrared or something.
TreeSparrowDY
They’re the true colours but they’ve been _massively_ upped in saturation. Pluto is made of various ices and has a coating of red tholins.
reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah viva le France!
TobiFuenke
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reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah Viva Belize
reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah Viva the Netherlands! OG user's of white blue and red colors
27yoUGLYvirgin
Red?
reykjavikparadise
Yep, the Netherlands began using the red white and blue colors in 1630 as part of a rebellion against Spanish influence
AudaciousCheeseburger
reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah Viva Cambodia!
reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah Viva Malaysia!
27yoUGLYvirgin
When I was I Malaysia with my GF she thought they all loved America so much :D (she's American)
reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah Viva Liberia!
betamaxforever
Puerto Rico is red, white, blue, and has freedom from electricity.
TheNorwegian
Hell yeah Viva Norway
reykjavikparadise
Hell yeah Viva the Russian federation
burninator2
BrandonKnotts365
Fuck the planet not planet debate I wanna know where the Walmart is going
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
New Horizons actually got these to us in 2015 I thought. That, and a bunch of pictures of the Plutonian surface.
Steffn
You thought right!
tacobae
I got a giant new horizons banner from my work. I found it in a room where the celebrated. and they said i could take it.
RyuAzuku
Still getting data back
Quasipickle
Perhaps it started sending in 2015. The bandwidth is hella small, so maybe it actually took years to send all the data.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
I like your name
Quasipickle
I'm fairly sure I like yours too.
Sparkmane01
We still have em in 2018 tho
TheAdventuresofStealy
It'll fly by its second target even further out just as those of us on the east coast are just beginning to celebrate the new year.
icannotthinkofanyrationalname
And it launched way back in 2006, development started around 2001.
jc310xc
OH MY GOD THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO??
Dashiznit
That's right buddy. Years go by fast, better make the most of them
Sharklaserspewpew
And they dont stop coming...
jc310xc
...Back to the rules and you hit the ground running?
fbutt09
What's the conditions of it like? Planet composition? Humans will disintegrate in seconds due to inhospitable atmospheric conditions?
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
I hear Google is well informed on this, but from what I understand it has practically no atmosphere at all.
djsdkdjsk
pluto is a dwarf planet, freezing cold, basically no atmosphere
FloppyAnomaly
Can this New Horizons thing do the same thing with Japanese porn?
plsnosteal
Well it probably hasn’t changed
TheChandrian
The Plutonions are constantly shifting their landscape, though.
Midguardian
Hard workers those Plutonian bastards
LetoAtreidesNeverForget
PubMed12927120suckssobad
Yeah, but colorized pics didn't happen till 2018 maybe?
GuardsmanMiku
you realise its not still there right
WaffleCopters
Took a while for NASA to render the CGI.
Midguardian
I love the tin foil hat comments most
WaffleCopters
And yet I still get downvotes cause nobody can understand an joke on this site.
SupahMo
They had color pics the day of. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-top-10-pluto-pics
SupahMo
They had color pics the day of. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-top-10-pluto-pics
Cornflakes91
to be fair, a probe in close distance has a lot easier time taking pictures :V
Thisismyusernameforimgurstuff
That's what she said.
KyleButNotThatKyle
Yeah, but that's part of the "evolution". In 1994 we didn't have a probe to fly passed Pluto.
StrapNasty
ILogInToUpvote
Oh shit it's been 24 years since 1994...
ElCabaro
I’m still preoccupied with 19 19 1985
javer80
If Pluto probes evolved from really big telescopes then why do we still have telescopes?? Checkmate atheists
drmount
Wow....that made me chuckle
SpecialProjectY
Except 10-11 Pioneer and 1-2 Voyager deep space probes.
matthewcw07
They didn't go near Pluto, and only 2 pioneer probes went to the outer solar system
SpecialProjectY
Yes, they didn't aim to but could. Judging by how many failed, more than one is an achievement.
VammyTheBuffpireSlayer
That probe probably left earth in 1994
KyleButNotThatKyle
It actually launched in 2006 which mean it would have had to launch in 1985 to get there in 1994.
VammyTheBuffpireSlayer
Accurate
Spreadhead9087
Not accurate because 1985 technology would take longer to get there
wyatt8740
past*
KyleButNotThatKyle
I stand corrected.
NotHardly
passed = next to past = historical, like before now
wyatt8740
Past as an adverb = "movement from one side of a reference point to the other."
OctopusWhiskey
Past is only used for “historical,” it should be past*
wyatt8740
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/past_4
Cornflakes91
the probe would have worked similarily well in the 90s. its just the willingness to shell out cash
KyleButNotThatKyle
So technology hasn't improved a bit in the 21 years between 1994 and 2015, (when New Horizons flew passed Pluto)?
Godomaut
Camera tech yes. Rocket tech not so much.
Cornflakes91
thats not what i said. its just that the majority of the image quality improvement was the probe actually being there.
Fatclaw
You are right, it's not actually Pluto's surface that has improved in quality, it's the probes and camera equipment. Who would've guessed!?
MornieAlantie
Much less between 1994 and 2001 when it was designed. Especially since the tend to use older stuff that they know works.
MornieAlantie
The processor is a radiation hardened version of a processor made in 1988. Not a lot of progress started in 94 and finished before 88