Today in History

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2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft makes closest approach to Pluto, coming within 13,000 km of the surface.

 

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2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft makes closest approach to Pluto, coming within 13,000 km of the surface.

for reference, the moon is almost 380,000 kms away. so almost 30x closer than the moon is to us.

by the time it passed Pluto it was going over 50,000 km/hr. so it would have taken it about 15 minutes to hit Pluto. it would have taken somewhere around 4 to 5 hours for us to even get a message to New Horizon, far far too late to have fixed the course.

 

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On this day in 2006, Twitter was launched to the public. Stemming from an idea pitched by Jack Dorsey, the platform was built as a side project inside Odeo, a San Francisco-based podcasting company. Per Dorsey's telling, the word twitter perfectly described its mission: to transmit a "short burst of inconsequential information."

 

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I missed this one from yesterday...

What a story of how he ended up back in the United States long after his death.

 

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Dang, seems like something happened today in history. What could it have been...

 

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I remember when they found that guy who held out. Seems like there were several over the years. Give 'em credit, he didn't quit.

 

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So much for that old saying about three dollar bills.

 

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One year ago, Ozzy Osbourne passed away

 

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• 1904 The ice cream cone is created during the St. Louis World's Fair, reputedly first by Charles E. Menches

This is something to celebrate!

 

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Should have been posted yesterday .

 

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Can’t even imagine what these men went through

 

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[Tin Man]

1981 MTV debuts