Gaze upon the hidden realms of Pluto. Not here in this greatly reduced image, but go direct to NASA and get the high resolution image.
Then stare at it. Become one with Pluto.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
In your wildest dreams, did you ever believe you’d be looking at hi-res images of Pluto? Frickin’ Pluto? I’m so conditioned to seeing an image of a small, white dot set against an expanse of black, this is simply mind-blowing. 3.7 billion miles from the sun and NASA/JPL were able to guide a spacecraft there to with 8000 miles and take pictures like this. If this doesn’t peg your awesome-meter, check your pulse.
The beige “footprint” reminds me of Wilson from Cast Away.
I see Jesus!
There is an eye. Oh, beyond awesome this.
I see Mi-Go cities!
After the David Cameron “pig gate” thing, “Become one with Pluto.” takes on a Disney porn kind of association in the gutter of my mind. But this picture, oh my, it’s made of all the awesome.
Ray @ 6:
Go with Hades, rather than Pluto. Hades was first anyway.
Caine@7:
Mickey Mouse’s first dog was named Hades?
Disclaimer: The previous was an attempt at humor, any resemblance to actual humor is purely coincidental.
Did Disney slap that copyright onto the dwarf planet?
(Crater just to the left of the “heart”)
“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”
There are two blogs I read regularly. Pharyngula, and Bad Astronomy. And suddenly I come here, and now I’m all confused. What next, Phil Plait will post something about gene regulation in drosophila? :-)
PZ, you should have ended your blog post with “click the image to enplutonize” or something to that effect. That’s what Phil does.
Soon the Mi-Go will come over and take our brains back to Yuggoth. I’Ä SHUB-NIGGURATH! I’Ä! I’Ä!