Pluto Flyby powered by a Playstation 1

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Some crazy pictures taken today by the New Horizons probe, and it's all powered by an OG playstation chip! Crazy!
The New Horizons space probe which recently completed a flyby of Pluto and beamed new images of the planet back to Earth is being guided by the same CPU which powered the original PlayStation console. As reported by The Verge, the probe contains a MIPS R3000 CPU, repurposed to "fire thrusters, monitor sensors, and transmit data."
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The same CPU was used in the original PlayStation console, which was first released in 1994 and ran at 33.8688MHz. It was implemented by NASA scientists in the New Horizons Space Probe, which was launched in 2006 and has travelled more than three billion miles in its journey.

According to The Verge, NASA has always preferred hardware that has been "tried-and-tested" over newer technology, which may be riskier to use. Reliability is prioritised over power, which is why a 12-year-old CPU was used, with a few tweaks made to help with surviving in space.

Various gaming hardware have been employed by NASA in its past projects, including use of the Kinect and Oculus Rift to control a robotic arm in real time. NASA has also revealed plans to use Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headset in the International Space Station, where it will provide support and guidance for day-to-day actions.
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crazy how there are visible mountains. suggesting that either now or in the past there was/is tectonic plate movement
 
Saw this earlier, pretty insane when you think about it. Not only what we're able to accomplish and learn about the universe, but the technology behind all of it too. I love this kind of stuff.
 
Ryda421 said:
crazy how there are visible mountains. suggesting that either now or in the past there was/is tectonic plate movement
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That may not be true though. They said they didn't appear to be tectonic mountains. Pluto seems to be a game changer at this point because so much of what we expected is completely different.
 
^But those mountains do suggest water ice (as opposed to ice from other elements) is/was on Pluto, which is pretty big, and certainly a necessity for life.
 
crcballer55 said:
That may not be true though. They said they didn't appear to be tectonic mountains. Pluto seems to be a game changer at this point because so much of what we expected is completely different.
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interesting. do they say how they could have possibly formed? i thought tectonic movement was the only way to form mountains. unless it has been eroded by water. itself
 
Pluto > CA for the suspected water ice >D

Could u imagine the images w/ a stronger processor and camera. This is wild. Too bad it's like -100000000 degrees F on that planet. Staging a base there to explore other ares of the galaxy would be phenomenal. Really interested to know what other planets and life forms are outside of the Milky Way or even past Pluto
 
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Dathbgboy said:
Pluto > CA for the suspected water ice
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Could u imagine the images w/ a stronger processor and camera. This is wild. Too bad it's like -100000000 degrees F on that planet. Staging a base there to explore other ares of the galaxy would be phenomenal. Really interested to know what other planets and life forms are outside of the Milky Way or even past Pluto
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The atmosphere is pretty thick there, so it would need to be an orbital platform if so.
Chopper said:
^But those mountains do suggest water ice (as opposed to ice from other elements) is/was on Pluto, which is pretty big, and certainly a necessity for life.
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I believe some were other elements too (liquid methane?).
Ryda421 said:
 
crcballer55 said:
That may not be true though. They said they didn't appear to be tectonic mountains. Pluto seems to be a game changer at this point because so much of what we expected is completely different.
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interesting. do they say how they could have possibly formed? i thought tectonic movement was the only way to form mountains. unless it has been eroded by water. itself
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No, that was it. It broke their models since some were 11,000 feet high.
Dathbgboy said:
Could u imagine the images w/ a stronger processor and camera. This is wild. Too bad it's like -100000000 degrees F on that planet. Staging a base there to explore other ares of the galaxy would be phenomenal. Really interested to know what other planets and life forms are outside of the Milky Way or even past Pluto
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Really makes me think what it's like to travel from earth to the farthest 'planet' in the solar system. Add to the fact that the satellite will simply continue to travel past our solar system? Crazy.

A part of me would love to be part of a generation where space travel is normal occurance for civilians.

But 10% of the ocean has been discovered...So I may want to continue to look into that first lol.
 
Fozzy Badfeet said:
Really makes me think what it's like to travel from earth to the farthest 'planet' in the solar system.

But 10% of the ocean has been discovered...So I may want to continue to look into that first lol.
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All I know is that Mars aint the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact, it's cold as hell and there's no one there to raise them if you're dead.

But the ocean is something I would like to explore, I can imagine lost cities down there. The Bermuda Triangle is still a mystery too.
 
Fozzy Badfeet said:
Really makes me think what it's like to travel from earth to the farthest 'planet' in the solar system. Add to the fact that the satellite will simply continue to travel past our solar system? Crazy.

A part of me would love to be part of a generation where space travel is normal occurance for civilians.

But 10% of the ocean has been discovered...So I may want to continue to look into that first lol.
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that is what's crazy to me...we have all this technology to go more than 17 light years away...but we don't even know whats below us in the water...insane...

"voyager 1" has been flying for 36 years...it has a gold record that plays music from that time period on earth...it has a date with a star in 40,000 years...pretty dope..

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Yeah, the ocean is a very interesting place. I still can't wrap around my head that there is water deeper that 20 ft lol.

I really want to know what happens in the trenches, where the giant squid really grows and where sperm whales go.

The ocean is pretty scary...And to still discover new species, today? Amazing.

I really wonder if there is still a pre-historic dinosaur still swimming around.
 
crcballer55 said:
The atmosphere is pretty thick there, so it would need to be an orbital platform if so.

I believe some were other elements too (liquid methane?).



No, that was it. It broke their models since some were 11,000 feet high.
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interesting

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here is a photo it took passing by jupiter and it's moon...i believe the camera is halfway decent...75mm lens...

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and yes that is a volcano exploding on it's moon...
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so there is some form of volcanism on the moon. that has to mean there is tectonic movement unless there is a different kind of mechanism which we have yet to learn about.
 
Ryda421 said:
interesting
so there is some form of volcanism on the moon. that has to mean there is tectonic movement unless there is a different kind of mechanism which we have yet to learn about.
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from what i understand is that because of the gravity of jupiter, it actually shape and reshape the moons that surrounds it and thats one of the reason why we can see a an eruption from one of the moons. i gotta read up on my astronomy books but our moon does the same thing with our earth thats why we have tides.
 
crcballer55 said:
 
Pluto seems to be a game changer at this point because so much of what we expected is completely different.
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Which is why I take whatever scientist say with a small grain of salt. 
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They just be making **** up and feeding it to people as gospel.

Someone explain why this isn't a planet again?
 
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