Science Newest & Clearest photo of Pluto

[andalusian]

We know or we've been told? Why does the moon always show the same surface to the earth? Isnt it suppised to be spinning as well as orbiting?

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/ph...eep-one-face-toward-their-planet-intermediate

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Fun fact: craters on the moon are really big. Like, the ones visible from the earth with a naked eye are 100+ miles across. Humans, and human structures? Much much smaller.

The supposed largest crater is aitken at 1600 miles accross that means all those smaller ones are far from thousands of miles.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/ph...eep-one-face-toward-their-planet-intermediate

Why do planets spin while orbiting the sun then? In all these supposed billions of years the universe had been why hasnt mercury stopped spinning? Why isnt it tidal synchronized with the sun?

 

[andalusian]

Why do planets spin while orbiting the sun then? In all these supposed billions of years the universe had been why hasnt mercury stopped spinning? Why isnt it tidal synchronized with the sun?

Dude. I came here to make a joke about @HCP and game threads. Now you make me go and research astronomy for you. Google's your friend (or Bing if you so desire, I do not care about the search religion). Cut the middle man.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Why do planets spin while orbiting the sun then? In all these supposed billions of years the universe had been why hasnt mercury stopped spinning? Why isnt it tidal synchronized with the sun?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-and-how-do-planets-ro/

 

[MarAzul]

The sun has the same orbit around the earth as it did pre-Copernicus. We just know now that it does not.

Yes I believe this nonsense is true.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Stunning. Pluto is so far from the sun that the sun would appear to an observer as just a bright star.

Why I love science. Pseudoscience and religious myths can't show anything like this. And it's real!

You obviously havent seen the Creationism Museum or the gigantic Noah’s Ark (Ark Encounter), both located in Kentucky.....

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Dude. I came here to make a joke about @HCP and game threads. Now you make me go and research astronomy for you. Google's your friend (or Bing if you so desire, I do not care about the search religion). Cut the middle man.

Im not expecting answers. i just ask the tough questions to get my students to critically think.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

You obviously havent seen the Creationism Museum or the gigantic Noah’s Ark (Ark Encounter), both located in Kentucky.....

You obviously havent seen the mountains of evidence to support a global flood located all over the world. Youll believe a fairy tail evolution theory despite any scientific evidence though.

 

[crandc]

Even if there was a global flood, all it means is there was a flood, not Noah's ark, let alone disprove 150 years of science. But by all means show us the scientific documentation for global flood

 

[noknobs]

Im not expecting answers. i just ask the tough questions to get my students to critically think.

Your questions and comments in this thread are border-line retarded, so I hope you're just joking...

 

[riverman]

You obviously havent seen the Creationism Museum or the gigantic Noah’s Ark (Ark Encounter), both located in Kentucky.....

proof

 

[MARIS61]

Stunning. Pluto is so far from the sun that the sun would appear to an observer as just a bright star.

Why I love science. Pseudoscience and religious myths can't show anything like this. And it's real!

The Sun is just a bright star, and the picture is not "real", rather a highly manipulated and enhanced multi-image.

In the image PIA19952 (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19952), the red luminance channel corresponds to the infrared data acquired by the Ralph/MVIC instrument as it flew past Pluto. The green and blue luminance channels have been removed. The color data data from the original image was layered over the remaining luminance channel and further enhanced to bring out greater variation across the surface of Pluto. Because the luminance data was captured through an infrared filter, the areas appearing closest to white correspond with areas most reflective to infrared wavelengths. Full 4k resolution image available here: http://i.imgur.com/B2WUkZk.jpg

I'm just messin' with you, it's still cool.

 

[MARIS61]

Awesome. Makes you think. Imagine being in space, looking down at little Earth. And thinking of all the people who live together and just fighting and killing and shooting each other up. So dumb.

Where do you live that people are just fighting and killing and shooting each other up?

People are quite pleasant and loving here in Beautiful Central Oregon.

 

[MARIS61]

The sun has the same orbit around the earth as it did pre-Copernicus. We just guestimate now that it does not.

fify.

 

[MARIS61]

So, somebody explain to me why it’s not considered a planet anymore. Somebody at sometime felt it was. WHy the change? That pic looks amazing blown up on my big ass iPad but he way. Probably the clearest image I’ve seen on it.

Somebody claimed it had Celestial Privilege so the ACLU sued to have it de-planetized.

It can never have asteroids now.

 

[MARIS61]

Why has nobody mentioned that Pluto is egg-shaped rather than spherical?

Photos don't lie.

I don't remember it ever being taught in school. Our planetary models were all spherical.

 

[MarAzul]

Isnt it suppised to be spinning as well as orbiting

Yep, one turn for each orbit.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Yep, one turn for each orbit.

Doesnt make sense. The face would be different on the other side of the world.

 

[theprunetang]

Pluto is clearly too much of a Cuck to be called a planet.

 

[MarAzul]

Doesn't make sense. The face would be different on the other side of the world.

It orbits the earth every 28 days. Always facing earth, so to do this it has to make one revolution every 28 days. If that's wrong then someone should correct me. The revoltions is not relative to the earth but to the sun as it obits the earth. I think you can think of it a a tethered ball, tether to the earth and one spot on the ball. So as it spins about the earth, it shows all 360 to the sun during a complete orbit.

 

[jlprk]

Haven't read the thread, but, there's no blue on Pluto. Fake picture. Amateurs do the same with Juno pictures from Jupiter. No blue there either.

 

[jlprk]

Make Pluto A Planet Again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size

Scroll down to the list. Pluto has the 17th-biggest diameter in the Solar System. (Earth's Moon is #14.) To avoid confusion, they have to draw the line somewhere.

 

[jlprk]

1 - This picture was taken by a probe we threw at Pluto, not from Earthbound telescopes; Earthbound telescopes can barely see Pluto at all. Even the Hubble telescope can only get a blur in a photo of Pluto: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1006c/

That's just a computer reconstruction based upon the best Hubble picture, taken in 1994.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

How did disney know?

 

[rasheedfan2005]

proof
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Dinosaurs lungs are too small to survive in todays atmosphere. They would need a hyperbolic chamber. Something happened to lower the pressure on earth. Like a canopy of ice raining down causing a global flood.

 

[crandc]

Since lungs don't fossilize, I have no idea where rasheedfan got his "information" about dinosaur lungs. There is no evidence "something" happened to atmospheric pressure.

 

[BrianFromWA]

This is one of my personal favorites, going back to maybe the first book report I ever did. Every person who ever lived, is living, or is the egg or sperm of someone about to be living is contained in this picture. Every single one. Except Michael Collins, who took it.

 

[crandc]

Interesting explanation, Brian - Had to think for a minute but correct.

Hey, I was in that picture!

 

[tlongII]

This is one of my personal favorites, going back to maybe the first book report I ever did. Every person who ever lived, is living, or is the egg or sperm of someone about to be living is contained in this picture. Every single one. Except Michael Collins, who took it.

Well, except for the life-forms behind him.