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At least it wasn’t a rickroll.
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Who ordered the mountain in a moat?
Slartibartfast
Then where are the fjords?
Between the Chjevies and the Hjondas.
I’m pining for them.
Fipty-seben Chjevies?
What could be more baroque than a fjord that circles back on itself?
Given how often we hear of stupid assed “OMG, half buried statue on Mars!” and similar bullshit based on pics from the Mars rovers, I’m actually surprised not to have seen any “OMG, Alien Battle Fleet parked on Pluto!” conspiracy nonsense yet.
Pluto’s Heart has varicose veins in its plains.
New updates:
Nix is… another tiny irregular lump of a moon. And possibly rather grumpy about getting its picture taken.
Charon’s the one with the mountain in the moat.
Pluto’s “heart” is made of frozen plains of carbon monoxide ice.
I had this idea that Pluto/Charon would have been a logical place for aliens (hypothetical extraterrestrials, not "UFO"s) to leave a marker for us to find, if and when the human race ever got serious about space exploration to go out that far.
Due to poorly ventilated furnaces? Well it is pretty cold there…
I don’t think so. Pluto is just one of many Kuiper belt objects. The most unique thing about it is that we discovered it and mistook it for something unique. There’s no reason that aliens would see it as anything that we’d scrutinize any more than a number of other objects.
One of the gas giants would be more likely, or maybe Mars or the far side of the Moon.
Not that I expect to find any messages from aliens in our solar system, at least not deliberate messages from intelligent aliens. Bio-signatures of microscopic life wouldn’t be too shocking, but would likely be much closer to the sun.
The weird part is that I revived this thread while sitting in the same spot that I was in when I started it.
It must have been strange to be one of the team members at the start – it would be like, “you can get started on your major research project in around nine years, maybe, if all goes well – meanwhile find something to busy yourself with”! And there was some definite probability that New Horizons would simply go silent at some point and never be heard from again. If that had happened, we’d never even know why.
Such things have happened.
Hey, post #40 started it. 
Watched both the Discovery and Nova specials. Each had a significant amount of pre-production with the latest bits added on the day before air. Nova went with a linear delivery and added the latest stuff on the end; Discovery was a bit more like a newscast with ‘packages’ of premade stories bonded together with cutins, standups and interviews from the event throughout the show.
Overall I liked the Nova better (it’s hard to argue with their quality production value) but both were informative and interesting.
The range in the lower lattitudes are called the “Norgay Montes”. Odd. I thought most of the names were supposed to be dark, sinister or evil, was he dark, sinister or evil?