And the world waits with baited breath to hear the answer: Is it one boulder or two?
Its three
THERE ARE FOUR BOULDERS!
And, remember, all this is being done at a distance of 6.62 billion km (4.11 billion miles) from Earth.
At that separation, radio signals take six hours and eight minutes to reach home.
Fucking crazy.
And I can't even get decent 4g signal at my house.
Who would win, a cell phone in a parking garage, or one floaty space boi 4 billion miles away?
What if its just one really massive boulder, and its coming right for us as a relatively low speed!
Passing a 30km size asteroid that's 65,000,000,000km from Earth from just 3,500km away, that's some insane precision.
Well they're only getting around 1000 bits/s at that distance. Imagine how long it'd take just to download one boob.
Imagine being an alien civilization finally picking up radio signals from outer space. Then you get all your scientists working on decoding it only to figure out it's a picture of a fucking rock
Finally we get a better shot of Postal's ass.
It's mentioned in the article, but since we don't quite know the asteroid's position, there's a real risk that the images taken are just gonna be off empty space. Which would then take many months to download.
Wireless is shit anyway, why didn't they just put a super-long cat5 cable on a fire hose reel attached to the probe and plug the other end into someone's laptop at NASA? Could have doubled as a prototype space elevator to save money
Don't tell my boss that he'd sign us up to do it
NASA reports Mars accidentally bisected by prototype space elevator.
You joke but when we build our space empire off the back of our superweapon that is basically just a cosmic sized cheese wire who'll be laughing then?
Elon Musk on suicide watch
Its not gonna be a rock
Its gonna be ur moms big vagina lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlh2uG4yJLs
Livestreaming the first images coming in.
I too remember when I was in middle school.
Glad you got the reference that is stored in the same box as "uranus"
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190101115028-ultima-thule-exlarge-169.jpg
ITS ONE BOULDER ONE YOU SEE WE DID IT GUYS WE ANSWERED THIS TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT QUESTION!
but seriously it's one boulder.
it is my brethren. they're coming for me
It's a giant space fried chicken leg.
Universe is running out of design ideas that it's straight up copying KFC.
It would weigh about 3 billion tons
Are you not happy enough with the original image? That's like winning the $5 million lottery, and going "Ugh, if only I won the extra $500 after that as well."
Looks like two rocks that gently merged like that philae comet
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110042/c946b982-a1fd-4b7a-8388-87b3df33c3e9/1439489223-8b9943212eeb787f3e62c377002e0cae-1038x576.jpg
But now this begs an even more urgent question:
Is it a giant space fried chicken leg, or a giant fried space chicken leg?
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