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After 9 years since launch,
After travelling 5 billion miles
The new Horizons satellite probe has reached pluto and is currently taking mass readings and photographs of the very distant micro planet.
Once considered one of the 9 planets of our solar system, they now teach children of only 8 with pluto dropped from the list in recent years.
On board the new Horizons probe, which is approximately the size of a piano, are the ashes of the very man that discovered pluto in the early 20th century.
How poetic.
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@wytey- wrote:just think, one day we will be going on holiday there, just hope they use a faster travel method, not sure I could sit for 9 years
I have no plans at all to spend any time in uranus.
On a 9 year trip i would suggest paying the extra by going first class. And pray your not on a flight with a stag or hen do aboard! 
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A 9 year long hen party would be interesting 
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@MI5 wrote:
A 9 year long hen party would be interesting
Don't think even you would last 9 years ....oh wondrous one 
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I hope I have more than 9 years in me 
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@Anonymous wrote:
Trying to comprehend the vastness of our galaxy in the vastness of the cosmos hurts my head. In a good way. Like scratching a bite/sting when you know you shouldn't. I find looking outward into the galaxy & beyond alway's ends up with me looking inward's? No hidden meaning there, just my personal feelings.
Imagine that 9 year trip to pluto was a simple full stop like this .
The outer edges of our galaxy would be on the moon in relative distance
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@MI5 wrote:
I hope I have more than 9 years in me
For sure.....but we were talking about you.....and a hen party 
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@viridis wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Trying to comprehend the vastness of our galaxy in the vastness of the cosmos hurts my head. In a good way. Like scratching a bite/sting when you know you shouldn't. I find looking outward into the galaxy & beyond alway's ends up with me looking inward's? No hidden meaning there, just my personal feelings.Imagine that 9 year trip to pluto was a simple full stop like this .
The outer edges of our galaxy would be on the moon in relative distance
At 1.30am I'll take your word for it. Suffice to say, I wouldn't like to walk it....
