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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..
by tragomaskhalos 11y ago
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"
(courtesy of the Wikipedia page on Yuggoth, aka Pluto).
- jessriedel 11y ago> The sun shines there no brighter than a star Worth noting though that the Sun looks a lot brighter than other stars from Pluto. Pluto orbits out at 40 AU, so the Sun is 40^2 = 1,600 times dimmer. In contrast, as seen from Earth, the full Moon is 400,000 time dimmer than Sun. Therefore the Sun from Pluto is about half way between the Moon and Sun on earth (on a logarithmic scale). It's roughly twilight.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoSo Yuggoth must lie out in the Oort cloud?
- mhurron 11y agoNASA made a tool to help visualize daylight on Pluto by letting you know when during twilight the Earth is getting about the same amount of sunlight as Pluto does at noon. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/ http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/
- Sothis 11y agoFungi from Yuggoth http://pastebin.com/Td7u6GUc http://pastebin.com/Td7u6GUc
- nine_k 11y agoRegarding references, I greatly wish the flyby would identify a bunch of Tzo crystals (http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Tzo_Crystal http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Tzo_Crystal).