Posted on 09/17/2015 5:26:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 230 miles (380 kilometers) across.
Electricity, radio, TV, men on the moon and on and on.
There has never been such a change in technology, ever.
Same here. Amazing isn't it? As a child, I remember my grandmother talking about her father hitching up the buggy to go to church on Sunday.
My grandmother was born in the 1880’s in a small farming village in Norway. So just that put her back in time another 50 years I imagine. Rowing across the fjiord by herself at the age of 11 to take care of the sheep. And then to see men on the moon! (She was 98 when she died. Alone in her own home still!)
In the 1970s my Grandmother wrote a story in the local paper about her first trip to Geneva, Alabama. She was maybe 8 and her Sister was around 10. Their Father took an Ox wagon for the 14 or so mile trip. They were to pick up their older Sister who was coming home from college via train.
A hurricane came through and the college president telegraphed them that he was keeping her for another day due to the storm. They had to stay overnight in a hotel.
They had all kinds of adventures and were helped out several times by strangers and acquaintances. Their Father thought nothing of taking a side trip to check on a turpentine still and then meeting them several miles later. The Ox, named “Old Bright”, just kept on the trail.
The next day their Father told them he would let them do anything they wanted so they visited the graveyard.
Awesome pictures
That...that is amazing. Thanks much for the post.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. My grandmother (my Mom’s mom) was the first female bank teller in Nebraska (working at her uncle’s bank) and one day Buffalo Bill Cody himself walked in and asked if she could make change for a $1,000 bill. She told me that she replied: “Mister, I’ve never even seen a $1,000 bill in my life.” This would have been around 1905.
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Roswell. Except for those Xray feet images. That was too stupid for aliens. It was cool for a kid though, and my feet haven't fallen off.
That would have probably been the equivalent of maybe $50,000 now.
You’re right. This entire technology change in the last 100 years is incredible, and as you said, like nothing seen before.
My grandmother was born in 1895. She, in her youth, and her parents had more in common technologically with Abraham, Isaac and Joseph than they would have with me today.
Truly amazing!
A grandi près de Tupper Lake . Fui le froid dès que je le pouvais ! Je l’ai vu 30 ci-dessous Janvier dernier dans le Wisconsin . Plus jamais!
I said, ‘lived in’ not, ‘visited.’
:)
Looks like a big rock to me. I think we should blow it up... just for the fun of it.
Is the ice caused by global warming?
fake fake fake- that’s a photo of the Arizona desert with a fisheye lens- as fake as the moon landing-
... but it's everbody's ... er, planet. I think that's the idea. Sputnik was embraced by the intelligentsia when it was launched, in the spirit of peace and internationalism, you know. I was just a kid, but I remember the whole Shtick.
And honestly, you had to be a good sport about it, even if you did grit your teeth.
I think the Michigan driveway is closer to the mark!
Thanks Squawk 8888, extra to APoD. See also Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Plutonian Landscape.
Not yet, but sooner than I’d like, and probably bitter cold for months on end, so the ice and snow goes nowhere until April.
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