Comments on: Methane ice on Pluto’s mountain peaks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/methane-ice-on-plutos-mountain-peaks/ Fri, 04 Mar 2016 19:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/methane-ice-on-plutos-mountain-peaks/#comment-858647 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 19:00:49 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=38036#comment-858647 Fascinating!

PeterF mentioned “E. E. ‘doc’ Smith.
Yes, I seem to recall to which you are referring, will do some digging.

All you folks are great! -Use to be a huge comic & Pulp fan in my younger days.(well, still am…) have about 20 issues left of Amazing Stories circa 1939-1946, but alas, no Smith issues.

The “..dark Cthulhu region..,” — totally did not know that factoid & pleasantly surprised the folks at Nasa know of H.P. Lovecraft!

Total tangent, if I might; Comics & Pulps were a steady 10 cents/issue for literally decades, because our money was a LOT more stable in the past.

]]> By: PeterF https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/methane-ice-on-plutos-mountain-peaks/#comment-858593 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 17:05:05 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=38036#comment-858593 There is a theory that life on earth is possible because water is available in all three states. That alien life may be possible on the outer cold planets and moons based on methane that can be found in all three states. I believe it was E.E. “doc” Smith that wrote fiction in the 50s and 60s with aliens that were horrified to encounter humans with “molten” H2O in their veins. Perhaps the molten sulfur on Io could support a life form like the Horta rock creature from Star Trek.

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