# Cthulhu is on Pluto! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232 "2015-07-15T11:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/1 "2015-07-15T11:51:22Z")
I realize that we have a Pluto thread already\*, but this is different. CTHULHU IS ON PLUTO!!! > **[Pluto Is Turning Into The Planet Of Your Nightmares](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pluto-cthulhu_n_55a5dda9e4b0896514cfbc06?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592)** > > "This is an epic day for fans of our betentacled overlord." Of course, there’s also a Balrog and Meng Po. If the Plutographers had actually been Lovecraft fans, you’d expect a reference to Yuggoth someplace, and maybe even Tsathoggua and Cxaxukluth. But you take what you can get. - [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18518799&posted=1#post18518799](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18518799&posted=1#post18518799) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/2 "2015-07-15T11:55:01Z")
That’s not what I’ve seen on the two most recent images: [https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11760096\_1158720694148940\_9178544879489554575\_n.jpg?oh=5f382937aa6a782b0e043a165d9970ac&oe=56110EEF](https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11760096_1158720694148940_9178544879489554575_n.jpg?oh=5f382937aa6a782b0e043a165d9970ac&oe=56110EEF) [![](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pluto.png) ](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pluto.png) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/3 "2015-07-15T12:52:16Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That’s not what I’ve seen on the two most recent images: > [https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11760096\_1158720694148940\_9178544879489554575\_n.jpg?oh=5f382937aa6a782b0e043a165d9970ac&oe=56110EEF](https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11760096_1158720694148940_9178544879489554575_n.jpg?oh=5f382937aa6a782b0e043a165d9970ac&oe=56110EEF) > > [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pluto.png](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pluto.png) My favorite of the image-overlay memes that have been going around- the spot that so many are referring to as a “heart”, someone did way better and demonstrated that it is actually the Disney character Pluto. Hence, the (dwarf) planet’s name. [Proof of Pluto on Pluto](http://41.media.tumblr.com/60c58638f6f1571290b9f6b9cd330cea/tumblr_nrhlms5gcU1s2wio8o1_500.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/4 "2015-07-15T12:53:04Z")
I always knew Cthulhu was destined for greatness! Go Cthulhu! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/5 "2015-07-15T13:24:56Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > My favorite of the image-overlay memes that have been going around- the spot that so many are referring to as a “heart”, someone did way better and demonstrated that it is actually the Disney character Pluto. Hence, the (dwarf) planet’s name. > > [Proof of Pluto on Pluto](http://41.media.tumblr.com/60c58638f6f1571290b9f6b9cd330cea/tumblr_nrhlms5gcU1s2wio8o1_500.jpg) [I like this NdGT one](https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11745918_775713279192550_1749012815866273310_n.png?oh=67074ce3cff201272a5b5520629d1966&oe=56163C05). [And this meme I saw floating around]([http://i.imgur.com/Bq73vnu.png\](http://i.imgur.com/Bq73vnu.png%5C)). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/6 "2015-07-15T14:21:44Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If the Plutographers had actually been Lovecraft fans, you’d expect a reference to Yuggoth someplace . . . “[Yuggoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/7 "2015-07-15T14:26:30Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > [Proof of Pluto on Pluto](http://41.media.tumblr.com/60c58638f6f1571290b9f6b9cd330cea/tumblr_nrhlms5gcU1s2wio8o1_500.jpg) If Pluto is a dog … what’s Goofy? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/8 "2015-07-15T14:32:19Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If Pluto is a dog … what’s Goofy? :dubious: 😕 Dog, obviously… but apparently Pete is supposed to be a cat!! ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/9 "2015-07-15T14:37:17Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If Pluto is a dog … what’s Goofy? :dubious: 😕 [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/978/if-pluto-is-a-dog-what-is-goofy](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/978/if-pluto-is-a-dog-what-is-goofy) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/10 "2015-07-15T14:53:03Z")
Am I the only one who can’t see it \*\*Cal’s \*\*linked photo 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/11 "2015-07-15T15:04:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If Pluto is a dog … what’s Goofy? :dubious: 😕 I used to read The Trentonian newspaper. Once a chemistry class wrote the editor to ask what Goofy was. The answer was, “That’s what you studying? Goofy’s a dog. Now what’s the atomic weight of tungsten?” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/12 "2015-07-15T15:19:57Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Am I the only one who can’t see it \*\*Cal’s \*\*linked photo 😕 Do you mean that you can’t get the link to work (with image), or that you get the image, but can’t see it? The image is the second one on the page – you have to scroll down. “Cthulhu” is what they’re calling the dark patch to the left (west?) of the “heart”. If you can see the map, but don’t think it looks like Cthulhu, then a.) I don’t think it was intended to suggest that the dark patch actually looks like a cephalopod-headed winged being – it’s just a name they gave the dark patch. b.) It DOES kinda look like one of those “Cthulhu Fish” bumper decorations, if you squint. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/13 "2015-07-15T15:43:10Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > [If Pluto is a dog, what is Goofy? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/978/if-pluto-is-a-dog-what-is-goofy) Ignorance fought! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/14 "2015-07-15T15:45:04Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > “That’s what you studying? Goofy’s a dog. Now what’s the atomic weight of tungsten?” 1. The chemical symbol is W. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/15 "2015-07-15T16:06:17Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Do you mean that you can’t get the link to work (with image), or that you get the image, but can’t see it? > The image is the second one on the page – you have to scroll down. “Cthulhu” is what they’re calling the dark patch to the left (west?) of the “heart”. > If you can see the map, but don’t think it looks like Cthulhu, then > > a.) I don’t think it was intended to suggest that the dark patch actually looks like a cephalopod-headed winged being – it’s just a name they gave the dark patch. > > b.) It DOES kinda look like one of those “Cthulhu Fish” bumper decorations, if you squint. Well that’s a relief. I thought it was another case of me not being able to see what everyone else can, like sonagrams and those pictures where you have to look at it a certain way to see the hidden image. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/16 "2015-07-15T20:07:28Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If Pluto is a dog … what’s Goofy? :dubious: 😕 A dwarf planet. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/17 "2015-07-15T20:43:47Z")
Mordor has been found on [Charon](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/15/science/space/new-horizons-pluto-flyby-photos.html?_r=0). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/18 "2015-07-15T21:18:36Z")
I just hope at some point they give some Plutonian land-feature the name of Uberwald. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/19 "2015-07-15T21:23:05Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Mordor has been found on [Charon](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/15/science/space/new-horizons-pluto-flyby-photos.html?_r=0). Who the fuck gets to name the features on these spaceballs? Mordor? Really??? Why not Disco Inferno? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232/20 "2015-07-15T21:25:24Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Mordor has been found on [Charon](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/15/science/space/new-horizons-pluto-flyby-photos.html?_r=0). “Cheron … that’s in the southern part of the Galaxy!” :dubious: 😕 > **[Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (episode)](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield_(episode))** > > The crew of the Enterprise find themselves caught in the middle of an intractable conflict with a bizarre fugitive alien and his equally belligerent pursuer. On an urgent decontamination mission to the planet Ariannus, the USS Enterprise encounters a... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulhu-is-on-pluto/725232.md?page=2)