New Horizons

[Frida Space]

Americans, just wanted to tell you I love America, and you should even more than me.

[Robotengineer]

I must say, I am unimpressed by NASA TV's broadcast... too much emphasis on the 'social impact' of this opposed to the actual science and happenings.

I have to agree with you there, it feels like a sports pregame show.

[Bev7787]

Hypehypehype

[BagelRabbit]

Hoorah!

Now it's just time to wait for some good hard data...

...and is is a bad thing that I got up about an hour earlier than usual just to watch this thing?

-Upsilon

[waterlubber]

Congradulations to NASA for making the flyby! Great work everyone, you made history!

and yes I have no life because I got up 4 hours earlier to watch this

also ninja'd by bagel rabbit.

[Cirocco]

ok, so now we can all sit back and wait equally tensed for the return signal and images to be transmitted in oh... anything between 9 and 16 hours

[Robotengineer]

Hoorah!

Now it's just time to wait for some good hard data...

...and is is a bad thing that I got up about an hour earlier than usual just to watch this thing?

-Upsilon

That's what I did... Whether it's bad or not, I dunno.

[RAINCRAFTER]

Now we just have to wait for a few hours for FOR SCIENCE!!!!!​caps

EDIT: 3 fors... 3 4's... what?

[Candlelight]

Congradulations to NASA for making the flyby! Great work everyone, you made history!

and yes I have no life because I got up 4 hours earlier to watch this

also ninja'd by bagel rabbit.

So true! I gave up my morning basis for this! WOOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bev7787]

Ive got eyes data

[Mau]

I'm not going back to sleep tonight... who cares, it was worth it!

EDIT: I made a PrtSc at 00:00:00, here it is:

Edited July 14, 2015 by Mau

[lajoswinkler]

I've managed to grab this manually. At the exact zero time.

[Robotengineer]

Why was NH scanning Pluto with REX?

[benjee10]

Congratulations to the entire New Horizons team!

[qwertyx2y]

I never even saw it, NASA TV Refused to load up....

I Hate living on the other side of the planet sometimes...

[Candlelight]

I'm not going back to sleep tonight... who cares, it was worth it!

Me neither.....so true .

[RAINCRAFTER]

Ahh Yes, the probe.

(and the minecraft wiki in the background? Hmph. Whatever.)

[Bev7787]

Now for the shout out...

[RAINCRAFTER]

I can't believe I came in when the probe was 3 min. away...

those min. go by fast...

[Robotengineer]

I never even saw it, NASA TV Refused to load up....

I Hate living on the other side of the planet sometimes...

AFAIK, you didn't miss much, the real excitement is when we get the transmission, I doubt they will hype that as much as they hyped closest approach.

Congrats to the NH team!

[Bev7787]

This weekend I'm building the probe. only time

[Kurbis]

Hoorah!

...and is is a bad thing that I got up about an hour earlier than usual just to watch this thing?

-Upsilon

I hope not, I got up two hours earlier.

maybe i can fall back asleep:D

[Camacha]

Where can I watch this going on? All the streams and sites I know are (for obvious reasons) very slow.

[LordFerret]

Those of you who downloaded the app and watched the simulation of the flyby, likely better spent your time than those of us scanning the news for word (which no major networks that I breezed through made any mention of) or watching NASA's tv.

[Awaras]

Isn't all this hype a bit of a case of counting the chickens before they hatch? I mean, it would be so anticlimactic if they celebrated and made all that hype only for it to turn out that (god forbid) the probe failed, like a hour before closest approach or something like that.