02:30 - The narrator does take a little license here, "America's Most Powerful Rocket" has only a quarter of the capacity America's most powerful rocket had in 1969. Voyager 1 (launched 1977) is traveling about as fast as NH, has traveled faster in the past, and will be traveling faster than NH upon leaving the solar system. Helios 1&2 (launched 1974&1976) regularly travel *way* faster.
@sbergman27 - Might be better to say America's Most Powerful Rocket at this time" Yes, Saturn V was the stud of rockets (insert picture of Saturn V kicking sand in smaller/lesser rockets' faces). Pity our short-sighted space policies do not have a Really Large DR in inventory.
Pluto is strange in this solar system because the terrerstrial planets are four and inner. The gas giant are four and outer. But there is still the chance of a rock planet way out there? Yes, cuz the kuiper belt.
Must we keep worshipping and praising the Roman culture? What would have been wrong with calling it Lowell or Tombaugh? Freaking Romans, they were savages. The Greeks studied Mercury first, and they called it Hermes, not the Roman Mercury.
Actually, the Babylonians studied the planets before the Greeks. Naming planets after people doesn't work; Herschel and Le Verrier both tried it when they found Uranus and Neptune, but other countries complained that they didn't want to have planets named after someone from England/France. We don't always use Roman gods; Eris is named after a Greek goddess and Makemake and Haumea are both named after Polynesian gods.
I agree with you wratched, I just don't like how the entire world is forced to acknowledge the praise of the Roman culture in naming all of the original 9 planets, sorry I still believe Pluto to be a planet regardless of what the IAU says. But the names are set in stone, so what can you do? At the very least, we could change Uranus to Ouranous, and stop the silly nonsense about pronouncing the name wrong.
To bad anything worth finding will be hidden from the public.
AncientEarthAlien 6 days ago
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Minecrafter2133 8 months ago
I can't wait , I wanna see Pluto and Charon.
And, why not, Haumea, Makemake, Eris and Sedna.
KonataArctica2011 8 months ago
02:30 - The narrator does take a little license here, "America's Most Powerful Rocket" has only a quarter of the capacity America's most powerful rocket had in 1969. Voyager 1 (launched 1977) is traveling about as fast as NH, has traveled faster in the past, and will be traveling faster than NH upon leaving the solar system. Helios 1&2 (launched 1974&1976) regularly travel *way* faster.
sbergman27 1 year ago
@sbergman27 - Might be better to say America's Most Powerful Rocket at this time" Yes, Saturn V was the stud of rockets (insert picture of Saturn V kicking sand in smaller/lesser rockets' faces). Pity our short-sighted space policies do not have a Really Large DR in inventory.
vv55sst 1 year ago
Cool!
MarkAudiR8 1 year ago
Pluto is strange in this solar system because the terrerstrial planets are four and inner. The gas giant are four and outer. But there is still the chance of a rock planet way out there? Yes, cuz the kuiper belt.
KaitoKid10040 1 year ago
nice doc. but the eart's birth 4 bilj yrs ago is nonsens!
willempievooijs 1 year ago
New Horizons recently passed it's halfway point
Squipplekillzbitches 2 years ago 5
@Squipplekillzbitches
cool!! do you know a website where i can check it all out?
willempievooijs 1 year ago
@Squipplekillzbitches
cool!! do you know a website where i can check it all out?
willempievooijs 1 year ago
I can't wait for close-ups of Pluto.
TashkentFox 2 years ago 10
this is coollllll
pddeepakx0x 2 years ago
Pluto is not a planet, but a dwarf planet.
MSK12755 2 years ago
@msk12755 Pluto is still a planet in my book wait until it makes it there.
VincePkayz 1 year ago
hm thats weird but we have no idea when it gets there we have to get to pluto before its 2,000 year winter...
FunnyGuy1141 2 years ago
why??
briscoealexandra89 2 years ago
hey u fuck u!
monkeymiss55 2 years ago
Um...no I would rather not.
flarezone 2 years ago
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FunnyGuy1141 2 years ago
9,5 years and launched in 2006....
imarchello 2 years ago
I think for every new Oort cloud object we find [like Sedna] we should name them after Inuit gods- like Sedna.
mitzimybff 3 years ago
Must we keep worshipping and praising the Roman culture? What would have been wrong with calling it Lowell or Tombaugh? Freaking Romans, they were savages. The Greeks studied Mercury first, and they called it Hermes, not the Roman Mercury.
saturnhexagon 3 years ago
lets call it Jesus
eliteobserver 3 years ago
LMAO! well said
briscoealexandra89 2 years ago
Actually, the Babylonians studied the planets before the Greeks. Naming planets after people doesn't work; Herschel and Le Verrier both tried it when they found Uranus and Neptune, but other countries complained that they didn't want to have planets named after someone from England/France. We don't always use Roman gods; Eris is named after a Greek goddess and Makemake and Haumea are both named after Polynesian gods.
wratched 3 years ago
I agree with you wratched, I just don't like how the entire world is forced to acknowledge the praise of the Roman culture in naming all of the original 9 planets, sorry I still believe Pluto to be a planet regardless of what the IAU says. But the names are set in stone, so what can you do? At the very least, we could change Uranus to Ouranous, and stop the silly nonsense about pronouncing the name wrong.
saturnhexagon 3 years ago
Great edge-cutting video. Thanks for uploading.
surfquik123 4 years ago 2