New Horizons Team Responds to Spacecraft Anomaly

The spacecraft suddenly went into safe mode and communications was lost for an hour and twenty minutes yesterday. It’s back up and running, but as yet they don’t know what went wrong. And it will be unable to collect science data for “one to several days.”

Just ten days till Pluto flyby. After nearly a decade in flight, to have it start going screwy *now* is not only nerve-wracking, it’s also perfect conspiracy fodder.

Prediction 1: If the probe ultimately fails, expect it to be because THEY Didn’t Want Us To See What Those Spots Are.

Prediction 2: If the probe succeeds, but the spots turn out to be mundane… The Shutdown Was When THEY Turned Off The Spacecraft And Turned On The Fake Image Generator.

Friggen’ Yuggoth.