Life on Pluto?

EccentricAnomaly writes "The BBC is reporting that new models of icy moons in the outer solar system predict that oceans (as in liquid water oceans) may be much more common than previously thought. Even Pluto and Neptune's moon Triton now appear to be good candidates for a liquid ocean under their ice. This is exciting because life has been found on Earth in environments similar to these icy oceans at Antarctica's Lake Vostok."

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Re:Moderation here is garbage

[clearcache]

agreed - this is more flamebait than insightful...just because it's flaming people that don't have a large representation on /. doesn't mean it's not flamebait.

Was religion mentioned somewhere in the article? Seems to me that this is fairly off-topic, too.

Not to be pedantic

[Valdrax]

Yeah, just wait until we wake up one of the Elder Gods imprisoned in a block of ice on Pluto.

Get your Mythos references straight! Yuggoth is HPL's name for Pluto, which is home of the primary colony of the Mi-go (the Fungi from Yuggoth) in our solar system. They also have mining colonies on Earth. While they are worshippers of the Elder Gods, there is no indication that an Elder God is actually present on their world. I believe their strongest associations are with Shub-Niggurath and Nyarlathotep, both of which are pretty active and have been called to Earth before anyway.

Read "The Whisper in the Darkness" to see the origins of the Mi-go, one of the few technologically advanced races to appear in Lovecraft's stories. As for Cthulhu -- he lies dead but still dreaming somewhere under the seas of Earth, and it was the Old Ones from "At the Mountains of Madness" that were found encased in ice.