(July 2, 2015 at 5:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Ok, first and foremost, I don't want what I'm going to say to be taken as anti-science. I'm not anti-science, never have been. Science rocks, totally and utterly.
That being said, I have a hard time getting excited about pictures of Pluto. Yes, I get that it's an astonishing technical achievement. Yes, I get that knowledge for the sake of knowledge is worthwhile. But, really...Pluto? meh.
Boru
Hi Brian. Hope you are doing well. Pluto is the one Kuiper belt object we can (relatively easily) reach and study in detail. I think there are going to be surprises that makes the trip well worth it. just my two cents worth. By the way, here is the latest image:
![[Image: NH%20Color%206-5-14.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=pluto.jhuapl.edu%2FMultimedia%2FScience-Photos%2Fpics%2FNH%2520Color%25206-5-14.jpg)
Yeah, it is still low resolution, but it is getting better, and will get much better throughout the next week. stay tuned.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
