This is Pluto

"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake) 09/17/2015 at 20:18 • Filed to: None

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I’m speechless. This should rank very highly in a list of ‘most incredible photos of the 21st century so far’. Pluto wasn't even discovered until 1930, and only 85 years later we have this picture of it. No words can express how amazing that is IMO

coqui70 > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:20

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And it is too a fucking planet ... screw you Neil DeGrasse Tyson you hack!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:23

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It’s amazing.

BReLp7dzHM3ytYsE > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:27

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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:28

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What are you talking about? We have had pictures of pluto since the 30s

Jayhawk Jake > coqui70 09/17/2015 at 20:28

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It's not, and that's okay.

ttyymmnn > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:33

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Those two Pluto photos showed up today on The Atlantic, and I just sat and stared. To launch something into space, have it fly for 9 1/2 years and then work as advertised is simply incredible. I’m still having trouble getting my head around the idea of rivers of nitrogen.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:36

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it’s times like this where I still sorta realize astrophysics would be really fucking awesome to do.

coqui70 > Jayhawk Jake 09/17/2015 at 20:36

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Nope nope nope ... not ok!

yitznewton > Jayhawk Jake 09/18/2015 at 09:55

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Secondary discovery: those Plutovians are pumpin dat bass...

Reminds me of this thought experiment I had with a guy in seventh grade: what would happen if you turned the whole Earth into a subwoofer?

Jayhawk Jake > yitznewton 09/18/2015 at 09:59

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Nothing would happen. Sound needs a medium to travel through. So beyond the giant subwoofer’s atmosphere there’d be no effect. I suspect a subwoofer that size would destroy whatever atmosphere was there anyways.