NASA returns to shit
The Pluto crew at NASA has raised the bar for gaining positive public attention. It's no mystery. Just be human. Skip the tech shit and give things meaningful names. Treat your target like a newly discovered friend instead of a newly written piece of code. NO THEORIES, JUST CAREFUL OBSERVATION PLUS A DASH OF WONDERMENT.

THIS. IS. SCIENCE.

The heart. The whale. Tombaugh Plain, which incidentally looks remarkably like a brain. Maybe it should have been called the Sea of Cortex.

Now the latest from the pointless exoplanet crew returns to boring standard, showing the distinction even more dramatically.

We can think of Kepler-452b as an older, bigger cousin to Earth, providing an opportunity to understand and reflect upon Earth's evolving environment," said Jon Jenkins, the Kepler data analysis lead at NASA's Ames Research Center.

452-b. The only people who get excited about names like 452-b are autistic supernerds. And note also the IMMEDIATE reference to good old GLOBAL WARMING and EVOLUTION and ENVIRONMENT. Four doses of standard evil NASA poison in one sentence.

Examining Pluto makes sense because Pluto is reachable. We could send a manned mission there with existing Russian technology. (There's no such thing as American technology. We only manufacture chaos and genocide.) It would be a stretch, but it's POSSIBLE.

There is exactly ZERO chance that we'll ever reach, or even COMMUNICATE, with a planet 1400 LIGHT YEARS AWAY. We don't even know if it still exists. This is PURE THEORY, PURE SCI-FI.

THIS. IS. NOT. SCIENCE.



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A bit later: The Pluto crew has answered the weak riposte by the exonerds. A magnificently beautiful picture of the part they're calling Sputnik Plain. Nice touch, honoring the REAL pioneers from both sides despite idiotic USA STRONG invasions and aggressions against Russia.

The Pluto team says the picture is showing a flow of exotic ices. Take that, exonerds! Which would you rather have in your kitchen, a glass of rp4896.4i9^t#zq80 or a glass of exotic ices?



Exonerds should slink back to their coding cubicles and just 7463&3.77#2^7fQ5 for a while.

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Graphic note: My toonish Sputnik is fairly accurate. A sphere with 4 antennas all pointing the same way. But this ISN'T what you envision when you hear the word Sputnik. You see a sphere with DOZENS of antennas pointing in all possible directions. Like most of our space-age imagery, this icon became popular several years BEFORE any satellites were launched. The early US Vanguard satellites were closer to the iconic image. Vanguard had 8 antennas, pointing to the 'anatomical cardinals'. Up, down, left, right, front, back. It's not clear how the all-spikes icon became associated with the Sputnik brand.

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