That sounds like a better-than-average news operation.
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Just for fun, the summary paragraph from Brian May’s Wikipedia entry: “Brian Harold May, CBE, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist, and photographer.” Would that we all could have such a cool bio!
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It is. It’s our local ABC affiliate and they are exceptional for a local newscast.
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Cool…
It is yet another example of what can be accomplished once ~1000 people are united and motivated by a love and fascination of the universe. The unfortunate aspect of our species is that it is overwhelmingly dominated by the people described here:
And it is for that reason we are ultimately doomed…
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I have a slight acquaintance with one, and he is not allowed to work at all.
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Baked potatoes are fairly standardized aren’t they? Similar sizes and shapes. Otherwise potatoes are very varied: boiling round, fingerlings lanky, baby salt (yummm)
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Monkey line species can sure do some awesomely tricky things.
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Ya just gotta admit that this is cool stuff NASA is doing. This is very good usage of my tax dollars.
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Two years for all the data to come in. And then quite possibly years more data after that. Fingers crossed that we’ll still be listening.
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Wonderful stuff. The adventure continues.
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Because nobody cooks anymore. The number of Americans who have seen an uncooked potato is an insignificant demographic.
$800 million?? Is that a joke? That’s less than the cost of one (1) totally disposable, hard to maintain fighter jet, isn’t it?
Scientists know only that Ultima Thule is elongated like a baked potato.
Isn’t a baked potato basically shaped exactly the same as a not baked potato?
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For me, these are the moments in human endeavor and history that make being human pretty exciting.
Discovering more about our immediate neighborhood is always fun.
Every indication is we’d better take WAY better care of our home here. It’s going to be awhile before we can live anywhere else…
We need a lot more space missions too. Just to get to the next step (colonizing local planets/moons), we need dozens of missions that are still years away. I think we’re moving too slowly. If Elon Musk accomplishes his Mars adventure in my lifetime, helping the rest of us move a little faster, I’ll be so jazzed…
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This is amazing! That scientists are assuring us that it’s too late to prevent climate crisis. We are in it. We have to cool down the earth’s atmosphere now and if we do not we are all doomed. If only half the money spent on space travel and exploration would go to the emergency that’s facing us right here on earth.
Maybe some of the space enthusiasts can assure me that there is some benefit from space exploration that will mitigate our climate crisis.And that space ex doesn’t harm our damaged atmosphere.
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Just maybe… when ‘jefe naranje’ was supposedly staring up at the solar eclipse with unshielded eyes… he was looking straight at Ultima Thule. You can never tell what ‘very stable geniuses’ are actually doing.
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This achievement thrills me to the marrow … we can do shit when we go at it with our best and brightest.
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Sadly, when New Horizons was launched Induhvidual One was an (un)Reality TeeVee celebrity with a failing show who was busy fucking a porn star and grabbing women by the pussy. No one had any idea that he could ever be elected dog-catcher, much less President.
There was no reason to put him on New Horizons then…
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Ummm, yeah. Terraforming Earth is going to be orders of magnitude easier than turning anyplace else in the solar system into a marginally habitable planet.
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