New Horizons has woken up

In spite of following movements of spaceships in the planetary system I tended to forget the New Horizons launched by NASA nine years ago to a mission beyond Pluto. It switched off from my memory on and off and sometimes I thought it may have gone lost somewhere because there were years of gaps as no news spewed out and as if it had been not a part of us. Travelling at the rate of about 60000kms per hour and having travelled 4.8 billion kms it has now reached Pluto and NASA’s team has it woken up from its slumber to take up the several planned tests . In the mean time I myself may have travelled a few thousand kms and seen the vista of a few countries and the cultures of a few lands. But whats amazing is it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes for radio waves travelling at the speed of light to travel from Pluto to earth. This puts us in severe quandary about time travel and worm holes seem to be the only solution. Poor Pluto was a planet until nine years ago (when new horizons had just left the earth) until astronomers realised that it was far too different from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and that it belonged to the icy Kuiper belt world where there were many such objects. Since then it was rechristened as a Dwarf Planet. New Horizons is designed to still travel further into the far echelons of the solar system into the Oort clouds and it could be the first to go beyond the solar system if all goes well. In the nine years it has taken to travel to Pluto the humans have undergone lots of development in electronics, software and lifestyle. What changes we undergo in the years to come as New Horizons travels further is a mystery. For now we may call it very slow.