Sunday, July 12, 2015

From the "Well I'll Be!" category: Pluto's features could have names like Mt. Tardis and Vader Crater - CNET

Sunday net surfing yielded this little snippet. I found the original at Yahoo Science News....
"The folks behind NASA's New Horizons released a list of the most popular suggested names for places on Pluto that shows sci-fi and fantasy fans are getting plenty of representation."
I actually think this is cool. Why not use things that are current in culture as related to the SF Space-Time Genre? 
The last paragraph was this little gem.............................
"I'm kind of hoping that NASA doesn't discover any more planets at this point because we're going to run out of decent names somewhere down the line. I dread the day when NASA announces the discovery of a new planet named Hubbard and names its largest structure Mt. Michael Bay."
Both quotes are from the author, Danny Gallagher.
The entire article with a cool CGI picture are at the link below.


Pluto's features could have names like Mt. Tardis and Vader Crater - CNET

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