NASA Gives Green Light to Begin Building Pluto Probe

The planet, not the dog!

Just 12 more years before we find out what the place really looks like. (Be hysterical if after the probe was launched, NASA found a faster and cheaper means of propulsion, and it turns out that we could send a probe to Pluto that’d only take six months to get there!)

Micky and Donald are glad the heats off them for a while.


She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!

'Bout damn time, too.

Excellent news.

Now, I hope the Fungus there don’t regard this as an intrusion into their space.

…cannot…resist…any…longer…
What about the probes for Uranus?

NASA should have called it a probe for Uranus just for hilarity value. They’d probably get better funding, too, and the probe could still go on to Pluto after it was finished probing Uranus.

Haha! See? This Uranus-probe joke would never get old!

It would be pretty funny to see some stuffy politician making the announcement about probing Uranus.

[GWB]We need to probe Uranus.
We must make sure that Uranus is not planning on attacking us with chemical, biological, or other weapons of mass destruction.
The probing of Uranus is necessary to preserve our homeland’s security.[/GWB]

Right… It never gets old.

That’s an awfully tight schedule - one year to fix the design and two years to build and test it? I’m glad I’m not on that team!

This stinks. My husband is working the tail end of a NASA project that has been in the works for some 30 years and is supposed to launch in October. He just heard they might pull funding & scrap the whole thing and he’ll be out of work. What gives?!?!

Well, pretty much everything stinks after it’s done probing Uranus.

Okay I’ll stop!

Maybe he can transfer to the tail end of the Uranus probing.