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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 02:26 PM Jul 2015

Anyone Else Notice The Stonehenge Replica On Pluto?



About 30 degrees below the equator and toward the left.

You can make out Stonehenge and a road leading up to it.

Just like the ceremonial road leading up to Stonehenge in the UK.

No doubt about it. We need some big fuzzy enlargements of that.
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Anyone Else Notice The Stonehenge Replica On Pluto? (Original Post) jberryhill Jul 2015 OP
I see an asteroid crater, is that what you mean? uppityperson Jul 2015 #1
Don't be ridiculous jberryhill Jul 2015 #2
"Doing be ridiculous" as a reply in Creative Speculation that there might be a simple reason? uppityperson Jul 2015 #4
You gotta play by the rules in this group jberryhill Jul 2015 #5
Sorry, let me try again uppityperson Jul 2015 #14
Ahh... Hadn't considered that! jberryhill Jul 2015 #15
Same reason they faked the moon landing. Mercury in vaccines! uppityperson Jul 2015 #17
Not a crater, surprisingly. greyl Jul 2015 #13
Mystery solved by enhancing resolution jberryhill Jul 2015 #16
It is an Astrobleme Agnosticsherbet Jul 2015 #3
Good point jberryhill Jul 2015 #6
Now that you mention it, I dreamt last night that I was an immense, rugose cone... arcane1 Jul 2015 #7
LOL Agnosticsherbet Jul 2015 #8
Just found this Reter Jul 2015 #9
nah. sorry. don't see it. n/t wildbilln864 Jul 2015 #10
I'm stunned. jberryhill Jul 2015 #11
you'll be ok.... wildbilln864 Jul 2015 #12
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
2. Don't be ridiculous
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 02:55 PM
Jul 2015

While many people think of Stonehenge as just a stone circle, the "henge" is actually the round earthwork forming the outer ring:



Now if you look a that round thing on Pluto, you can see the stone part jutting up inside of a similar trench/berm structure, and a pathway leading away:



Forming an avenue that lead to Durrington Wall.

Now before I get out the image editor and put all of the red arrows, circles, question marks, and an alphabetized list of obviously constructed features on this new image of Pluto, I wanted to post it before NASA scrubs the evidence.

greyl

(22,996 posts)
13. Not a crater, surprisingly.
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 11:53 PM
Jul 2015
Bill Nye: Lack of impact craters on Pluto 'a mystery...




Pluto’s Portrait From New Horizons: Ice Mountains and No Craters

...
A second surprise was that the dwarf planet’s surface was unmarred by craters.

“We have not yet found a single impact crater in this image,” Dr. Spencer said.

Collisions happen everywhere in the solar system. Planetary astronomers count craters to determine whether a surface is ancient, formed billions of years ago and then pockmarked by impact craters over the eons, or young, a smooth expanse that formed more recently, erasing the impact craters. Dr. Spencer said that the lack of craters suggested that this part of Pluto’s surface was less than 100 million years old, extremely young given that the solar system is 4.5 billion years old.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/science/pluto-flyby-photos-reveal-mountains.html

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
3. It is an Astrobleme
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 03:28 PM
Jul 2015

nothing more.

And likely being millions of years older than Stonehenge, if anything Stonehnge is the replica.

It anything, it is the home of the Fungi from Yugoth, the Mi-go.

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"
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
6. Good point
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 03:41 PM
Jul 2015

That's more or less what I meant.

Yes, of course, there is no way that ancient inhabitants of Great Britain could have known about the formation on Pluto, and thus could not have duplicated it on their own.

Well, this seals it.
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
7. Now that you mention it, I dreamt last night that I was an immense, rugose cone...
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 08:45 PM
Jul 2015

but I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

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