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- Pitak89, on 10/13/2009, -3/+515From a graphic design standpoint, that is an awesome map.
- indyGuy, on 10/13/2009, -1/+344now that's an infographic
- SimonWatson, on 10/13/2009, -1/+291Voyager 1 is 10 billion miles away, holy crap.
- theCoffee, on 10/13/2009, -5/+274From an Oceanographer's standpoint this is a horrible map.
- EddiePotato, on 10/13/2009, -1/+225Whats really amazing is that people were able to plan so many missions involving gravity assisted flybys of moving bodies *without* modern computer simulation. Can you imagine doing all the calculations for those things on... PAPER!?!
Kudos to the eggheads of yore. - Stephenishere, on 10/13/2009, -0/+205:( 10 billion miles = 0.00170111428 lightyears
Sigh... Progress is progress - akchrs, on 10/13/2009, -4/+191"Every Space Mission From the Last 50 Years"
That we know about. - r3m1x645, on 10/13/2009, -15/+201I can't believe I found childish humor in this but,
"First craft to approach Uranus" - sklassen, on 10/13/2009, -1/+156Poor Mercury—the Solar System's D-student.
- spookyttws, on 10/13/2009, -3/+153I'm just glad we launched that preemptive strike on the moon last week. I never liked that thing, always appearing bigger or smaller whenever it feels like, moving our oceans around, reflecting light on us when we're trying to sleep, I'm glad we finally stuck it to the moon. I say we go after the Sun next, I never liked the way it makes us orbit it.
- randyka87, on 10/13/2009, -1/+142Voyager 1:
windows update found 8million important updates to install - dagamer34, on 10/13/2009, -2/+101What's creepy is that after reading Wikipedia, NASA's calculated when the New Horizon's probe will pass Pluto's orbit down to the minute! It doesn't happen for another 6 YEARS. O_o
That's the power of math for you! - Nidy1, on 10/13/2009, -3/+95This is so cool. After reading about atrocities in the news, seeing the pointless wars being fought over the world, and seeing countries pile up stockpiles of nukes while others try to get their own so they too can destroy the world, pictures like this still manage to make me proud to be human.
"There are not yet any obvious signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours always rush implacably, headlong, toward self-destruction. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars."
-Carl Sagan - Brak710101, on 10/13/2009, -3/+79There is quite a price gap between space exploration and commercial travel.
Also, aircraft can be profitable, and while important, space travel/exploration is a money sink. - AngryDeuce, on 10/13/2009, -2/+76From an extraterrestrial's standpoint, this map doesn't make any sense.
- bjornski, on 10/13/2009, -1/+69Good point. I'm sure there were many missions that were never publicized for various reasons.
- da233, on 10/13/2009, -0/+66From a person standing 5 feet above a TN lcd monitor's viewpoint, this map is completely black.
- theCoffee, on 10/13/2009, -1/+65Did anyone else notice that one of the probes is heading for Pluto and was launched when it was still considered a planet?
(New Horizons) - g0atm0nster, on 10/13/2009, -0/+56Are you joking?
It's sarcasm, Einstein.
Take you medication for once you silly goose. - michaelpinto, on 10/13/2009, -21/+73It breaks my heart that we've done so few space missions! Think by contrast how many aircraft flights take place in hour of any given day...
- mrgr8avill, on 10/12/2009, -132/+178By some strange coincidence, when viewed from the precise angle their home world provides, the map spells "dkjropaJIJ3oo" in the native language of the gorlgothians. DkjropaJIJ3oo is the most racially charged, hate-filled, warmongering word the gorlgothians had come up with in the first nine billion years of their existence. So bad was this word that its accidental utterance one night while sneezing at a pub led to the Great gorlgothian Wars, which decimated the population three times over, resulted in the destruction of six outlying planets in the gorlgoth system, and made sneezing punishable by death in six neighbioring galaxies. We are all now well advised to pack up and leave. Now.
(sorry, just read the article about the new "Douglass Adams" book... - AmyVernon, on 10/13/2009, -1/+45Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Read it.
- AlyxVance, on 10/13/2009, -1/+44my left ear is 10 billion atoms away from my right ear, holy crap.
- HandsOfNod, on 10/13/2009, -38/+80Keep the comment diggs at 42!
- akchrs, on 10/13/2009, -1/+41And Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1. It really was.
- JakeBC, on 10/13/2009, -0/+39Of all the things NASA has done, I rank the Voyager program as #1, followed by the Apollo and Viking programs.
- nategri, on 10/13/2009, -2/+41Now THIS is a damn graphic. Nearly makes up for the other garbage I see on here.
- theCoffee, on 10/13/2009, -2/+40What month were you born? Janurary.
JAN-UR-AR-Y
What is your favorite color? Blue.
B-L-U-E
Odessy this is mission-contorl, adjust vector 4.5 degrees left and cease thrust, over. - Homerr, on 10/13/2009, -2/+40Uranus needs more love.
- Sabretou, on 10/13/2009, -2/+40I see no childish humour in that.
- Dillon81, on 10/13/2009, -1/+38frak, I knew I shoulda bought the laptop with the 40" screen...
- bjornski, on 10/13/2009, -0/+36Well, I didn't say "positive", or "without a shadow of a doubt".
Do I need to define it further? - skeletor3000, on 10/13/2009, -6/+41I didn't know that venus was closer to earth than the moon...
- DarQraven, on 10/13/2009, -0/+33NASA had to read wikipedia before they could do that? Makes me think I can get a job there, too...
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/13/2009, -0/+32source: http://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/in ...
- bjornski, on 10/13/2009, -2/+33I didn't see it. Deal with the repeat.
I'm glad it was posted again, this was ***** cool. - SomeJunk, on 10/13/2009, -0/+30And it's not even the hottest- Venus has it beat.
- spookyttws, on 10/13/2009, -3/+32That guy who wanted someone to fly his vehicle to Titan for 25k isn't on there.
- ZonGuy, on 10/13/2009, -2/+30From a blind man's standpoint, I can't see.
- Daxx22, on 10/13/2009, -1/+28Over 40 missions to Venus, but only one to Uranus.
Yeah, sounds about right. - MrFisty, on 10/13/2009, -0/+27Except for the mysterious black square above Pioneer 10.
- skinny01, on 10/13/2009, -0/+27It was only a probe, not manned so it's okay...no *****.
- jmb93, on 10/13/2009, -2/+28From an alcoholic's standpoint, this map has doubled.
- theCoffee, on 10/13/2009, -1/+27Its still the fastest earth made object to date.
- hauntedchippy, on 10/13/2009, -0/+26Aint no commie lovin free fusion reactor is gonna push me around!
- stevensj2, on 10/13/2009, -2/+27From a standpoint's standpoint, this map inspires comments on its behalf.
- cjw10, on 10/13/2009, -0/+24I'm not positive. But isn't that how GPS got it's start?
They launched some satellites and created GPS for the military. And sometime later they DoD said "Surprise! We have GPS for you!"
I could be making this up, not really sure. - SpoonMSU, on 10/13/2009, -2/+25From a dyslexic's standpoint, that is an awesome pam.
- DrHoliday, on 10/13/2009, -0/+23I know it's foolish, but that same part of me that assigns expressions to the front end of cars is wondering what Voyager 1 feels like out there, sent out by its creators to explore the universe all alone.
- Idiggapony, on 10/13/2009, -0/+23But wasn't that published, like, 30 years ago?
Is there really a new Douglas Adams book? That'd be excellent. But he has been dead since 2001. -
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