# Woohoo! We got Pluto! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476 "2001-11-09T17:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/1 "2001-11-09T17:41:34Z")
[Green Light for Pluto](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1644000/1644721.stm) The quote from the VA/HUD/Indie appropriations bill says this: > [@](#): > > 1. An increase of $30,000,000 for the Pluto Kuiper Belt (PKB) mission. The conferees direct NASA to proceed with its plan for source selection, but recognize the launch dates may be altered due to delays in the source selection process. Funds provided should be used to initiate appropriate spacecraft and science instrument development as well as launch vehicle procurement. The conferees direct NASA to consolidate PKB development funds within the Outer Planets line beginning in fiscal year 2003. This bill still needs final passage in Congress and then the President needs to sign it, but things are looking good. I may get to see pictures of Pluto in my lifetime! That’s a wonderful thing. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/2 "2001-11-09T17:50:36Z")
I’ve heard it’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Actually, I think it would be fascinating to see photos of the furthest planet from the sun. Who knows what doors it may open? ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/3 "2001-11-09T18:44:13Z")
Yes I would like us to actually send a probe to it and be able to say we sent a probe of one kind or another to every planet of our solar system then to de-planetize Pluto and say we sent a probe of one kind or another to every planet of our solar system. GO PKB ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/4 "2001-11-09T18:53:05Z")
Or we could take that thirty million bucks and give it to me. I would then spend as much as $1000.00 to hire one of these photoshop geeks hanging around the office to make really cool and convincing looking fake photos of Pluto, which I would then send back to NASA. This would accomplish just about as much, and I certainly would be much better off. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/5 "2001-11-09T19:10:35Z")
Booyah!! More spiffy wallpaper for my computer! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/6 "2001-11-09T20:31:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > \*\*I may get to see pictures of Pluto in my lifetime! \*\* [Here ya go!](http://www.geocities.com/~eutychus55/characters/pluto.htm) [sub](somebody had to do it)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/7 "2001-11-09T21:15:21Z")
Heh. I betcha that Pluto is worth a dang sight more than a mere thirty mil. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/8 "2001-11-10T07:18:13Z")
Why are we worrying about Pluto when we still don’t have a effective orbital weapons platform to cut terrorists and nay-sayers in two with laser beams? ---
**Author:** ![Has\_anyone\_seen\_my\_pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Has\_anyone\_seen\_my\_pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Has_anyone_seen_my_pants)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/9 "2001-11-10T07:30:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\* > Actually, I think it would be fascinating to see photos of the furthest planet from the sun. Who knows what doors it may open? \*\* Nitpicking here, but actually Neptune is currently the planet farthest from the sun. Neptune and Pluto’s orbits overlap, so for a period of, I believe, 38 years, Neptune is farthest out there. Maybe for the next 10 years or so, yet. ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/10 "2001-11-10T07:37:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Has anyone seen my pants? \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > > \*\* > > Actually, I think it would be fascinating to see photos of the furthest planet from the sun. Who knows what doors it may open? \*\* > > Nitpicking here, but actually Neptune is currently the planet farthest from the sun. Neptune and Pluto’s orbits overlap, so for a period of, I believe, 38 years, Neptune is farthest out there. Maybe for the next 10 years or so, yet. \*\* Nitpicking here, but Pluto passed Neptune heading out in [1999](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/99/pluto990209.html) ---
**Author:** ![Has\_anyone\_seen\_my\_pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Has\_anyone\_seen\_my\_pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Has_anyone_seen_my_pants)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/11 "2001-11-10T07:53:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Genseric \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Has anyone seen my pants? \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > > > \*\* > > > Actually, I think it would be fascinating to see photos of the furthest planet from the sun. Who knows what doors it may open? \*\* > > > > Nitpicking here, but actually Neptune is currently the planet farthest from the sun. Neptune and Pluto’s orbits overlap, so for a period of, I believe, 38 years, Neptune is farthest out there. Maybe for the next 10 years or so, yet. \*\* > > Nitpicking here, but Pluto passed Neptune heading out in [1999](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/99/pluto990209.html) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-we-got-pluto/92476/12 "2001-11-10T08:04:47Z")
Make sure to mark your calendar, so you don’t miss it again in 2227…