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Offline headdie

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice


Is that the revenge of Pluto?
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
--Evergrey, Where August Mourns

 

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
PLUTO SMASH!
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!

 

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
I love how Uranus is all crosseyed and lopsided in that pic. :lol:
In my world of sleepers, everything will be erased.
I'll be your religion, your only endless ideal.
Slowly we crawl in the dark.
Swallowed by the seductive night.

 

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment. :p

 

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment. :p

I think the article mentions that Hubble has recently finished its  :( final :( upgrade so probably as a result of that
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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
No, these pictures are apparently from back in 2002 or so and have had a few years of image-enhancement algorithms applied to them.  The new hardware might provide slightly-better data, but there's only so much that Hubble can see of such a small object located so far away.

 

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
'You mean, an object that is so near :P
If I'm just aching this can't go on
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I really need lifе to touch me
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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Depends what you're relating to what. :p

  

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Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment. :p

We need FTL or other uber fast technology.. yesterday! 2015 is too long to wait.