“Pluto may be long gone”...
Or it could be a ship from Iain Banks’ Culture series—some of those were huge.
All respect to folks who worked on New Horizons and the mathmatics that can calculate an orbit based on telescopic images. This is truly the best of all worlds. Extend the mission!
Damn! I was a few minutes too late.
These are just the sort of places that Karl Schroeder had as prime targets of settlement in his striking novel “Lockstep”. Sure, they’re cold, but they’ve got water and organics and shallow gravity wells and no radiation problems, unlike the Jovian moons. Use hibernation to handle the long transit times, and you’ve…
No, it’s not really like zoologists missing an elephant-sized land animal, given the vastness of the universe and the seemingly paradoxical behavior we didn’t expect.
It’s more like xenobiologists missing an elephant sized animal, that’s paradoxically thriving in Jupiter’s rings.
Pretty stellar article.
God - I... uh... I meant to do that. (I have a plan)
Only if it's a Queen cover band.
God’s Wife - Why is Mercury so dark ?
DUDE! You can’t just look at a planet and ask “why are you so dark”!
Because Zack Snyder is directing it?
Ah....That’s why I didn’t see Mercury at the Oscars.
Sunburn.
Ming the Merciless sneered. “Send these worms,” he thundered, sneering, “to the pencil mines of Mercury!”