Science is Hard for Greta Van Susteren of Fox News

[RockaFowler]

She just tweeted this gem:

https://twitter.com/greta/status/738051845713694721

Why did they wait until NOW to release these? pics taken in 2015 and we pay their salaries in tax dollars


NBC Nightly News Verified account 
‏@NBCNightlyNews
NASA releases sharpest images of Pluto ever taken; captured via spacecraft's flyby in 2015. http://nbcnews.to/1WYPaJF

Now if little Ms. Fox News had actually read the story from NBC Nightly News she would see that it takes a while for pics to travel from PLUTO. Oh and I love how she goes after NASA for spending our Tax Dollars.
The people who replied to her let her have it!! Very funny stuff

[liberal N proud]

1. I would imagine one of the qualifications for FOX employees is low science aptitude

[yeoman6987]

7. Everyone of them is a lawyer

I don't think CNN or MSNBC only hires lawyers.

[Kingofalldems]

14. So Fox is great?

[Marie Marie]

8. Good point but may I remove the word science?

That about covers it all.

[Major Nikon]

15. Toe sucking is an added bonus

[HuckleB]

2. .

[RockaFowler]

3. I know!!

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. it's mostly that it takes a long time for the data to be transmitted because of bandwidth

which is quite low, at the distance of Pluto it's transmitting data at a rate of 1 kilobit per second, and at that rate 4GB of data (which is plausible for high resolution photography) takes over a year to transmit.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. That is it exactly. All the pictures (and other data) were recorded as quickly as possible ...

... and are slowly being transmitted to Earth, as was explained in NASA press releases and numerous popular press articles at the time. Perhaps Ms. van Susteren should pay more attention to, you know, journalism. Or she could even Google it ...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

34. I remember 2400 baud internet and having to wait months for a game download. nt

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

5. She should have to wear a

Dunce cap over her pointy head, while on air.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Funny stuff...Ms. Susteren got owned for her stupidity.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. Go get another face lift

Astronomers may become confused between Pluto and her mellon soon.

[dorkzilla]

10. Well, she is a Scientologist

So clearly she knows more about Science than most people, duh.

[Takket]

11. love this.........

Phil Plait ‏@BadAstronomer 3h3 hours ago

@greta Why do you publicly assume some nefarious plot instead of asking someone who might know first?

[randome]

21. Succinct.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[randome]

22. And this one.

Alegna Raffaz ‏@alegna24 2h2 hours ago
@tenspider_wx Greta seems to be operating at very low power and bandwidth as well
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Takket]

12. I found this via google in 5 seconds

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-it-takes-so-long-for-new-horizons-to-send-images-2015-7

but of course it is much more "Fox" to point out government incompetence where none exists than to actually go looking for "facts"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Keep in mind that she used to be on CNN....

[ieoeja]

18. I happened to be on vacation the week they did the Power Players this year.

Two of the five days they had a comedian, a politician and a journalist. It wasn't even close. Both days the comedian wiped the floor with the others.

[Ilsa]

23. I saw that.

Melissa Harris-Perry did well, but she still lost, partly because she isn't a risktaker on the Daily Double she hit.

I think I saw all of the first three shows and most of Friday's. The authors, comedians, "librul artsy folks" kicked ass, even in history categories.

[tclambert]

24. They had Al Franken on one day.

I yelled, "No fair!" at the beginning of the show because I knew Al would crush the others. And, of course, he won in a runaway.

[ieoeja]

26. I counted him as a comedian for my purposes! And, yeah, I thought the same thing. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Reading is Hard for Greta Van Susteren of Fox News . . . nt

[Mendocino]

28. So is speaking,

what side of her mouth is working today?

[rurallib]

19. Sky-ence is hard! Gummint is bad!

talking points most important part of job!

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Oh FFS.

It's because it took that long for NASA to scrub all the photographic evidence of Jesus and Heaven out of the background, silly!

[Rex]

32. Turn left past Jupiter and then hang a right when you see Jesus.

Space...the final frontier for Greta's brain.

[Ilsa]

25. Twitter: noun. Def: An internet social

Media tool that frequently reveals how fucking ignorant certain FOX TV journalists can be.

[Yavin4]

27. Greta is right! We wasted tax dollars on pics of Pluto when we've had such pics for years!

[yellowcanine]

29. Heh. She shut up quickly when the smackdowns started.

[Zen Democrat]

30. Greta isn't a scientist, she's a scientologist.

[Rex]

31. It MUST be a conspiracy! Quick call up Ted Cruz and find out why Greta!

Does she know there is an entire UNIVERSE out there? Is she familiar with this thing we call relativity?

[dembotoz]

33. cause nasa had to edit out jimmy hoffas body