Well that didn't take long
Pluto fly-by was clearly faked...
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notoolsovernight you're all luvvly an' 'orrible, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 14:40,
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Pluto 'Truther' Movement?
How many likes on YT and Twitter do you need to be called a movement?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 15:16,
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How many wipes?
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 16:25,
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Here are a few pertinent facts.
"How is it that NASA’s images of Pluto, supposedly taken from 9 million miles away, are of a poorer quality than those he took of Jupiter with his telescope from 484 million miles away?
1. The New Horizons cameras are optimised for a relatively close fly-by, not pics from 9 million miles away.
2. The light falling on Pluto is very dim, orders of magnitude dimmer than Jupiter.
3. Pluto is REALLY small, smaller even than Earth's Moon.
4. Jupiter is VERY big. Nearly 70 times the diameter of Pluto.
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notoolsovernight you're all luvvly an' 'orrible, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 15:57,
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This is no time for reason. The lizard people love Burbank.
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BaronMunchausen Interdimensional Demon Day Laborer, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 16:17,
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and also New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006. where camera quality was a lot lower than it is today!!!
but you'll always get the doubting idiots to poo poo someone's work.
religious nuts I'd say!!!
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skullbuggery uh huh! kissed a cow!, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 17:55,
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I saw an article about this last week.
It attracted a load of comments from nutters who seemed to be a mix of standard nasa conspiracy theorists and deranged flat earthers. Of course Poe's law applies so they could have all been taking the piss.
My "favourite" was someone who simultaneously asserted that space didn't really exist (flat earth) and even if it did then rockets didn't work there because there was no air to push against. I swear I lost 40 IQ points reading those comments.
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