"Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g—what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma—to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars"
Quite astonishing to imagine the scale of our entire world. Even with what we consider highly developed technology for the fastest travel time, we needed 9 years to reach Pluto and that is just the "end" of what we believe to be our entire solar system, a tiny tiny part of a gigantic galaxy, which is also just a tiny tiny part of our universe. And for all we know, we could be living in a world consisting of multiverses. It is as if we were to discover an entirely new world on a grain of sand at a gigantic beach.
فردا «افق‌های نو» تنها دیدراش رو با پلوتو خواهد داشت. این آخرین «برخورد نخست» با جهان‌هایی خواهد بود که این همه وقت ذهن ما رو به خودشون مشغول کردن. وقتی «افق‌های نو» پرتاب شد، پلوتو هنوز یک سیاره به حساب میومد و امروز یک سیاره‌ی کوتوله اما این اسم چیزی از هیجان و عطش ما برای بیشتر دونستن از این عضو خانواده‌ی خورشید کم نمی‌کنه. #newhorizons#pluto
this is good. love how they call it a gateway. love how they didn't mention the object Pluto is revolving around that must have mass greater than that of Plutos. love how one of the devices on the probe is called Alice.
"Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g—what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma—to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars"
When we see pluto, give our 'hi' to that planet. I always love that little planet.
Beautiful. I can't wait.
EDIT: 6:06 gets me every time. The spirit of our collective humanity goes with Clyde Tombaugh. Rest well sir.
Amazing video, beautiful to think about and see.
Quite astonishing to imagine the scale of our entire world. Even with what we consider highly developed technology for the fastest travel time, we needed 9 years to reach Pluto and that is just the "end" of what we believe to be our entire solar system, a tiny tiny part of a gigantic galaxy, which is also just a tiny tiny part of our universe. And for all we know, we could be living in a world consisting of multiverses.
It is as if we were to discover an entirely new world on a grain of sand at a gigantic beach.
Don't know why this brings tears to my eyes…
Who would have thought that this video would be an emotional one. Can't wait to see the success of this mission.
See you soon, Pluto!
6:25 that dude looks so hip
The guy around 1:10 needs to brush his teeth
فردا «افق‌های نو» تنها دیدراش رو با پلوتو خواهد داشت. این آخرین «برخورد نخست» با جهان‌هایی خواهد بود که این همه وقت ذهن ما رو به خودشون مشغول کردن.
وقتی «افق‌های نو» پرتاب شد، پلوتو هنوز یک سیاره به حساب میومد و امروز یک سیاره‌ی کوتوله اما این اسم چیزی از هیجان و عطش ما برای بیشتر دونستن از این عضو خانواده‌ی خورشید کم نمی‌کنه.
#newhorizons #pluto
This was beautiful
Who does the weirdo at 1:50 of the video think he is ? Khan from Star Trek ??
this is good. love how they call it a gateway. love how they didn't mention the object Pluto is revolving around that must have mass greater than that of Plutos. love how one of the devices on the probe is called Alice.
and then there is life on pluto
This is awesome! A must watch.
It's kind of awesome and kind of sad.