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Sounds like there could be a lot of science yet to come!!

From Wiki: at Pluto's distance, a rate of approximately 1 kbit/s per transmitter is expected. Besides the low data rate, Pluto's distance also causes a latency of about 4.5 hours (one-way).

Scientists have a lot more patience than I do!

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In a lot of ways, science and patience are the same thing.

Not in all ways. But a lot of them.

I wonder if they watch their planet porn arrive one scan line at a time.

There's a lovely photo of scientists manually painting the scan lines coming in from Mariner 4, like a paint by numbers picture

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...

I can tell you stories about the days of 300 baud dial-up modems.

When 256 colors was good enough...

For high res displays. The rest of us got by on 16 colors.

And 110 baud before that (Model 33 Teletype).

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