Threadkiller

[Umbran]

Nope! not even the least bit. I mean, we have to wait until tomorrow at 1030 EDT to find out what it looks like!

Untrue!

https://twitter.com/NASANewHorizons/status/620923200621412352


(That's the last picture taken before the close approach run - it gives us a very nice image of what it looks like, in general)

 

[Scott DeWar]

Well, tomorrow is now here. So, any idea what the dark band, or 'whale' as they call it is?

Also the heart is an interesting geological feature. Is the dark area volcanic ash, the light area ice crystals of some gas or another rather then a liquid like water frozen there?

Addm: I wonder if the 'heart ' might be some sort of glacial field?

 

[Umbran]

Well, tomorrow is now here. So, any idea what the dark band, or 'whale' as they call it is?

Not yet.

Pluto is about 5 light hours away. The distance imposes bandwidth constraints - so, New Horizons has taken a great deal of data in its flyby, but downloading it to Earth will take *months*. And analysis will come only after information comes available. So, we will be taking months and years to figure things out from this flyby,not hours.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Hey [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION], I noticed something. The last 5 times someone has quoted me it was YOU! Are you stalking me or something?

 

[Umbran]

No, dude, stalking takes actual work. You just happen to always be there.

Hm. Maybe it is you stalking me...

 

[Scott DeWar]

But your name: Umbran mean something like a shadow, which according to definitions, to shadow means to follow, which I see you are doing. My name is a permutation of Dewar's Scotch. Which implies drinking.

 

[Pendrake Utherman]

*sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak sneak*

I think I figured out how this works . . . .


I AM THREADKILLER ! ! ! !


*/sneak /sneak /sneak /Sneak /sneak /sneak*​

 

[Umbran]

But your name: Umbran mean something like a shadow..

That is one interpretation.

It could also be a reference to Bran the Blessed - one of the first of the legendary talking heads. Or to the dietary fiber additive. Or maybe it just sounds nice.

 

[Scott DeWar]

That is one interpretation.

. . .edit . . . Or to the dietary fiber additive. Or maybe it just sounds nice.

Granted it sounds cool, but as for it being something to do with dietary fiber I would use caution. Eric's grandma might have a descriptive word regarding fiber.

 

[Pendrake Utherman]

Ewwwwwwww!