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That's odd. Better send another probe. - robkelk - 09-20-2016
If I'm reading http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/20 ... _know_how/]this article correctly, Pluto is emitting x-rays.
Yes, the Pluto that's out in the Kuiper Belt. The one that had no magnetic field.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- DHBirr - 09-20-2016
"Now witness the firepower...." Oh, wait. I said that already.
I saw another article on this. One of the commenters spun a hilarious flight of fancy about Pluto sending an invasion force, Washington D.C. cowering, "We have awakened the Frozen Midget...."
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- Ebony - 09-20-2016
Quote:DHBirr wrote:"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment." - H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"Now witness the firepower...." Oh, wait. I said that already.
I saw another article on this. One of the commenters spun a hilarious flight of fancy about Pluto sending an invasion force, Washington D.C. cowering, "We have awakened the Frozen Midget...."
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
- DHBirr - 09-20-2016
"Yuggoth... is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar system... There are mighty cities on Yuggoth—great tiers of terraced towers built of black stone... The sun shines there no brighter than a star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses, and put no windows in their great houses and temples... The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges—things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids—ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen..."
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
- Skyfire2020 - 09-24-2016
This is something i barely remember from years ago so I might be totally wrong. Anyway from Astrology, pluto is about secrets and hidden things so it is fitting that it is underestimated. On a slight tangent, I believe we are still missing at least 1 planet sized object before we can fully explain the orbits of the known solar system.
Mark
- Jinx999 - 09-24-2016
Pluto postdates when they were making up astrology. There's a Champions supplement where they wanted some magic to associate with Pluto, so based on the time period when it was discovered, they chose destruction.