PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO

[TheNightingale]

PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO
Discuss Pluto here!!!!!!!!
-breathes out-
Sorry, I'm excited.

Basically, NASA's "New Horizons" probe has reached Pluto - it was launched in 2006, it took a long time to get there! (Space is big!) - and it's sent back its first transmission to NASA! No pictures (yet), but we know it's OK and it hasn't been hit by a space car! It's taking lots of pictures and collecting data, and it'll be sending some back at some point today! (It's already sent them back, but space is big, so it takes a while to get here!)

THIS IS REALLY EXCITING AND A BIG DEAL

[Loonikus]

Call me when they send a probe to an actual planet.

[TheNightingale]

Pluto IS a planet and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise, dammit"

(But really, how about the Curiosity rover, the MESSENGER, the IKAROS (this one's by Japan), the Voyager 2...)

[DemonFiren]

Here, have some Pluto.

[TheNightingale]

Can you see the heart?

[DemonFiren]

Yes, it was up on xkcd.

[420weedscopes]

when we found out about pluto (this was like Some Time Ago and i was a small child) in the uk there was this like hippie festival thing? celebrating the discovery of it and how it's all about love and peace and woaaah drugs or some shit like that
my parents decided it was a brilliant idea to take me and my two brothers to it for a weekend
one of the terrible, terrible things i saw was a 37-stone fat lady walking around the entire campsite banging a gong naked shouting 'meeting'.

i'm pretty sure nobody is allowed to camp on that field anymore.

[TheNightingale]

When you found out about Pluto?


You're old.

[Ricotez]

it is a well-known fact that America didn't find out about Pluto until somewhere in the 1990s, when the British prime minister joked that they might find oil there

[ColonicAcid]

AND THEN THERE WERE EIGHT
JUST LIKE THAT
BRING BACK PLUTO BACK BACK PLUTO
BRING BACK PLUTO PLU PLU PLUTO