SPOOKY new Pluto snaps will make the HAIR RISE on the back of your neck NASA boffins have released a new batch of pictures beamed back from the New Horizons probe, barrelling into the emptiness of the far outer solar system. The pics were actually taken some time ago as the probecraft zoomed past icy dwarfworld Pluto. But the linkup between Earth and New Horizons isn't exactly the fattest of …
As our weather is pretty much driven by the Sun, and Pluto is (on average) 5,906,380,000 kilometers away from said Sun, I would not have picked weather as a thing on Pluto.
I wonder what drives it?
And now the wait until New Horizons gets to it's next target and who knows what it will find there?
Great time to be alive.
I'm sure the Sun drives its weather too, but the 'ice' they're talking about flowing is not water ice, but CO2 or something else that freezes at much lower temperatures. This is Pluto's balmy summer, since it is much nearer the Sun than it is on average.
Water ice is probably indistinguishable from granite at several hundred degrees below zero.
Pluto is currently about 40 Au from Sol, just past Neptune. Earth is one A.U. out. Everyone here knows the squared distance law. So sunlight at daytime on Pluto is about 1/1,600th so bright as it is here in good old UKland.
That's way brighter than moonlight from a full Moon.
So it isn't "night". It is just not very bright daylight.
But it's probably not bright enough to grow sun-ripened tomatoes.
It may not be quite *warm* enough, either. :)
It's more than a coincidence, those 50's SiFi movies were a HOAX! They only pretended to shoot them in deserts and studios on earth, the really secretly sent the entire film crew to Pluto!! This was a cunning plan to fool THE ENEMY that we were far more technologically backward than was the case!!!
What would the problem with that be?
Absolutely nothing.
(I don't think it would be hundreds more, maybe a dozen or two)
The definition-wriggling they did to demote pluto is much more ambiguous than the old "it's round under its own weight, it orbits the sun, it's a planet". So welcome Planet Charon!
With an ever increasing number probes being sent to the farther reaches, I wonder whether bandwidth couldn't be improved by positioning a relay station "out there, somewhere".
Obviously not going to improve transmission time, but cutting the distance in half and using a high power transmission from the relay might help with signal attenuation?
Today at the UNEarth General Assembly, Grey Alien Representatives would neither deny nor confirm that they have indeed a set of cities on Pluto but called it an "affront" to be even asked such a question as long as Anunnakis were allowed to keep roads on the far side of the Moon as this would inevitably lead them to city-building capacity. Earth President Dartha Vadora declared that "There is no daylight between us and the Greys! If Anunnaki will not immediately stop building roads, we will attack them with our glorious military in the middle of the lunar night! I already had to wire 30 billion Earth Union Credits to the Greys to keep them calm, something must be done!" Greys did not want to comment on whether they would eventually consider pre-discussion talks about signing the Non-Citybuilding-Treaty that the Annunaki have signed a few years ago. Rawteurs is still trying to ascertain the authenticity of grainy black-and-white photographs that have surfaced from HEXAGON offices showing alleged Annunaki roads on the far side of the Moon which may be in violation of the Non-Citybuilding-Treaty.
In other news, Swiss Representatives have declared that they will continue to play a role as neutral observers, being the only non-aligned Earth entity.
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