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New Horizon's signals travel 4.5h before they reach earth. It would have been only 2.7h if they hadn't installed Apple Maps.

Granted. He stole it, remember? I wish for this current space mission, called New Horizon, to already have sent pictures of an alien artefact around Pluto _and_ that we receive them intact?

Laaaaaaaaag! I wonder, if there is any activity on Pluto... like geysers or auroras or clouds or ...

Granted... I guess? Not sure anymore... I wish for signs of an old, abandoned space station on the next New Horizon update.

My apologies for fulfilling Godwin's law.... but: Some IQ Test results for "famous" people...

called: "The really Big One" very well written article. Never heard of it before. Sounds legit...

Yes, because they only measure how well your answers fit into the social group of people designing those tests. "Judge a fish by by its ability to climb trees, and mudskippers will win." or something similar. Besides, there was this solution to the missing numbers problem: 19. To any sequence of numbers you can construct a polynom(?) polynomial or something, which will lead to the next missing number be 19. (Or any arbitrarily chosen value.) So, there is never a unique solution...

Depending on your speed relative to the observer... you might be. Since tomatoes are fruits, why aren't they sweet?

Ok... I'm absolutely positive the probe is spinning deb... *g* SCNR This might be a stupid question, but is NH getting a gravity boost or gravity brake, or 'only' a change in direction out there?

Do _not_ go swimming there! Do _not_ hug anything that's orange and huge! Have fun and return with pictures! :-)

Granted. Your voiceover has Tourette's. I wish for coffee. Now that I had my coffee, I can finally read and see subtle things missed earlier: I wish you a cordial welcome to the forums! :-D

hehehehe, that was a nice troll, switching 'left' and 'right' choice's position in the two polls :-) almost got me. i voted right, since i use my right hand more often, including writing.... but i play chess with my left hand.

I do have the super-power to break anything I touch, possibly even by just looking at it. Unfortunately not the control to use it for anything productive (or destructive).

Hi, thought I might ask all of you, maybe you can help. There was a story I read ages ago (when I was still young and pretty)... It was about a man travelling through parallel dimensions/alternate realities. In one of those he met someone and talked about the traveller's history. They talked about WorldWar I and WorldWar II... the reply he got was: "You have wars that span the whole world? And you gave them numbers?!?!"(*) That still chills me a little bit. I have unfortunately no memory of who wrote this, what kind of book or magazin this was in, nor what the characters were named, etc... It had to be written earlier than 1990, probably in the '70s/'80s? My google-fu left me, any help? -- (*) in all likelihood not verbatim

ok, they can survive being freeze dried, but they can't live that way. they do need liquid water (and stuff) to reproduce... so a sufficiently dedicated tardigrade could hitch a ride on a rocket, ride a probe to mars or jupiter or whereever... but it still needs to find suitable living conditions. it's no extremophile on itself. we should make sure none of those are stowe-aways on any Europa mission

Granted. You can't land. I wish for ComicCon 2016 to be in Germany. :-D

Woah, muchos rep blips, r4tp00r.

There is this idea (not mine, but can't recall source): Fact: - Bacterial or fungal spores... these are small enough to be carried by the wind. - Strong winds/storms can carry these to pretty great heights. Speculation: - If a spore gets high enough by some freak weather conditions... (possible) - If it somehow gets charged... (possible) - It could get even higher by travelling with the magnetic currents... (unknown) - If it gets high enough to be affected by solar winds or other influences, it could eventually leave earth's SOI(*). Remember, there are rocks on earth, which are from Mars. According to scientific consensus. Granted, leaving Mars by a rather more energetic method... According to this speculation, earth has been leaving a trail of spores in its wake for billions of years... Most stay 'local', i.e. in the solar system. And only few survive, but some may find conditions to thrive. Extremophiles can endure unbelievably hostile environments. -- (*) yes, yes, i know. you know what i mean

No. I do enough pointless things at work already. Push the button to be transferred into the palaeolithic era.

awesome pic!!! probably just a misunderstanding... there are certain plants that are good for taking out harmful substances from the air. so it might actually be slightly beneficial to have an aloe plant next to stuff that constantly heats its plastic casings. nothing to do with radiation, but as long as it harms noone... but yeah, i feel you. my parents are the same.

awesome! but broken. trying to set a maneuver node, doesn't work :-D

Have a bowl of peanuts... and eat only one.

that KSP is not one of those games. (link to SMBC, a webcomic)

this! <- now with working link. no. at least, not yet. it is a long road, to change ones convictions, but he is trying! i mean, not trying to chance his convictions, his believes... few people actually seek that in earnest. but to understand what he's talking about. and that is worth sooo much. any fool with an encyclopedia can quote smart stuff, but in the long run, the ones with the actually thinking going on between their ears will win, no matter how much knowledge still misses. that is, what made me so sad about the video i linked earlier. the guy actually sounded... well, smart. "question everything" is a very good motto... if one is willing to learn and accept the answers. he is going out there with his own telescope, drawing his own conclusions. yes, they may be false. but they are his. so i do have some respect for him.

Update: Ok. since Whackjob actually said 'Go!', this does leave Sim1's naming to stick. And anything else would be plagiarism by me. Thanks to Whackjob for clearing this and Sim1 for the name. Sorry for bothering everyone. --- historic --- Hi. We - as a community - are in desperate need of something glorious... something noteworthy... something, so awesome, it can only be named The Scott Manley Maneuver I am aware of this thread/video, but lajoswinkler claimed this to be Whackjob's invention... could not verify/falsify. If this is indeed Whackjob's, then we need a new one. Let's gather suggestions and put it to vote once we have a couple... Anyone with me? Inspired by TythosEternal... --------------- So far we have - the "EVA-and-push" - the "Single-Rocket-Eve2Jool2Eve-and-back" - the "EVA-in-orbit-then-land-by-jetpack-plant-flag-get-back-to-orbit" - the "Orange-Tank-Duna+Ike-and-back-challenge" - the "something-heng-didn't-understand-by-megatiger" - the "ragdolled-kerbal-cargo-bay-rescue"