Awaiting New Horizons Probe's Flyby of Ultima Thule

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe meant to understand the formation of the Plutonian system, the Kuiper belt, and the transformation of the early Solar System.

The American space agency's New Horizons probe remains on course for its daring flyby of Ultima Thule.
When the mission sweeps past the 30km wide object on New Year's Day, it will be making the most distant ever visit to a Solar System body - at some 6.5 billion km from Earth.

Read more on The BBC.

(Image credit: NASA)


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Very true - but have you ever noticed that life fills every darn niche on Earth? Like even in the most inhospitable places (like a sulfur spring or a deep sea hydrothermal vent) ... it seems like nature likes to fill places with life ...
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My favorite thing about being in my apartment is the emptiness of it. There's no politics or political correctness in my apartment. I can choose visitors or none at all. I can throw everything away and start over again. I can get rid of things or clean it to make it feel more spacious. All the people who bother me don't live in my apartment. It's empty, yet infinitely fulfilling.
In 2018, we have 7.5 billion humans on a very small strip of land, and we gain a person roughly every 14 seconds (people are living longer now). There's nothing empty about Earth - we are slowly destroying the atmosphere, oceans, land, forests, and eventually each other.
My point is - I don't believe Empty as a concept is bad. And the concept of Full isn't always good. No one can understand reality without holding opposing ideas in their head at the same time.
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I duno, lotta people holding out hope we aren't alone in the universe.
My question is - isn't everything that much more magical if we ARE the only organic life?
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