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Monday 20 July 2015

Really Not a Planet

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Pluto, Jupiter and Neptune: Caravaggio, 1597-1600, ceiling painting in oil, 300 x 152 cm (Casino dell'Aurora, Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)


Fuck Pluto. Somebody's got to own
Something
Sometime. The rest
Is jest
The rest,
As the troublous wo/man
In the street was saying
To no one
After her bus went by without
Stopping, in the world
Night.



A Kashmiri villager cries for his missing relative after a cloud burst at Kullan village in Ganderbal district, on Friday. At least four people were killed in a series of cloud bursts that were reported from several parts of Kashmir during heavy rainfall, local media reported on Friday

A Kashmiri villager cries for his missing relative after a cloud burst at Kullan village in Ganderbal district, on Friday. At least four people were killed in a series of cloud bursts that were reported from several parts of Kashmir during heavy rainfall: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 18 July 2015


Pluto's Grave: Lucien Freud (1939-2010), 2003, oil on canvas (Private collection)

A boy carries a dog as he stands after Peruvian police operation to destroy illegal gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, at the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios.

A boy carries a dog near a Peruvian police operation to destroy illegal gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, at the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dio: photo by Janine Costa/Reuters, 16 June 2015

Pluto

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Pluto, from The Chain Gang, 1930: Walt Disney and Norm Ferguson (image by Muchi, 2005)

Born a few months after
the naming
of what was thought to be
the ninth planet

A normal dog

Unlike the endlessly neurotic
anthropomorphic
dog Goofy

How refreshing

Spoke only two words in his entire life

"Kiss me"


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"To Pluto the strong...": Nora Sawyer: from Ezra Pound: Canto I -- Into the Underworld (A Poetry Comic)

Oh, Heck, Pluto -- you were never meant to talk!

The Fuck Map...we've never seen a word map quite like this....: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

The Shit Map...9 billion words of geocoded Tweets 2013-2014: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

 Alright, let's keep going: the Bitch Map. This and Shit have a similar and common pattern (see other maps below): image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

So pretty much everyone's swearing. We just don't all prefer the same words. The Asshole Map.: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

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 The Faggot Map: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

The Motherfucker Map (as one word): image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

I hesitate to post this. We're doing some work on slang for a news outlet and they say any word is cool except this.: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

The Damn Map...hydro-electric polysemy doesn't seem to be skewing things too much at least: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

The Darn Map. I know, I know, I should be mapping damn/darn alternation for the variationists out there but fuck it: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

 The elusive Southern Midland Dialect region appears: The Gosh Map: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 16 July 2015

Let's get Round 2 started: The Crap Map...another Southern Midland pattern: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015

The Douche Map...: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015

The Hell Map...notably lining up with Shit etc rather than Gosh...: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015

The Slut Map... : image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015
...and then the Whore Map, very similar to slut...I guess I'll need to run hoe next: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015

The Bastard Map...a weaker pattern here.: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015

Last one for now: the Fuckboy Map. Also one of the fastest rising words in 2014: image via Jack Grieve @JWGrieve, 17 July 2015

Pluto -- Fuck Yeah!


We did it! We did it! #PlutoFlyby
: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 15 July 2015
 
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It's been 9 1/2 years since New Horizons launched. So excited to see pictures of Pluto tomorrow. @NASANewHorizons: image via Donny Osmond @ Donny Osmond, 13 July 2015 Provo, Utah

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This is how the #PlutoFlyby is going to happen
: image via NYT Science @NYT Science, 13 July 2015


ALICE BOWMAN IS A NATIONAL HERO: @NewHorizons2015Mission Operations Manager (aka MOM): image via Sarah Stern @notsterno, 15 July 2015

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The @NewHorizons2015 Team all smiles as they look over data (images?) downlinked this morning: image via AmericaSpace @AmericaSpace, 15 July 2015

We're almost a million miles beyond Pluto now! WOW!
: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 15 July 2015


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Thanks Laurel. Today, the BBC team decamps to DC for Friday's final #PlutoFlyby briefing.
: image via Jonathan Amos @BBCAmos, 16 July 2015

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Today in 1969: Apollo11 launched on first mission to land humans on the Moon: image via Spaceflash News @spaceflashnews, 16 July 2015

I think someone spotted @DrFunkySpoon! That long arrow is pointing right at Him!
: image via Pluto Major Planet @plutosgems, 16 July 2015


Love this!
: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 16 July 2015


Spent 14 years taking [sic] about our first data as the "New York Times" dataset. BINGO, that happened today! #PlutoFlyby
: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 16 July 2015

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@NewHorizons2015 journey to #Pluto made front page of the @nytimes this morning: #PlutoFlyby: image via Sarah Stern @notsterno, 16 July 2015

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How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate
: image via The SETI Institute @SETIInstitute, 16 July 2015

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This #DearPluto letter is outstanding! @ClarkPlanet thanks for sending these our way! @NewHorizons2015 @AlanStern: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 17 July 2015
 

#DearPluto Letters from @ClarkPlanet's #Plutopalooza
S/O to 'big heart' @NewHorizons2015 @AlanStern: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 17 July 2015


#DearPluto Letters from @ClarkPlanet's #Plutopalooza
S/O to 'science' @NewHorizons2015 @AlanStern: image via NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015, 17 July 2015

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National Geographic's #Pluto issue, autographed by @NASANewHorizons team. WANT! @NatGeo
: image via Boing Boing @Boing Boing, 17 July 2015

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VOTE for @NewHorizons2015 to have its own #LEGO set! #space
#PlutoFlyby #Pluto: image via Sarah Stern @notsterno, 18 July 2015


Finding Pluto: the hunt for Planet X
: image via Prof. Abel Méndez @
ProfAbelMéndez, 17 July 2015

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Looking at photos of Pluto doesn't get old. #PlutoFlyby: image via Planetary Society @exploreplanets, 18 July 2015
 

New Pluto images show no craters but plenty of weird mounds: a delicious enigma. #PlutoFlyby
: image via Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell
, 17 July 2015


New Pluto images show no craters but plenty of weird mounds: a delicious enigma. #PlutoFlyby
: image via Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell
, 17 July 2015


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 Should Pluto be a planet again? A petition is now out: image via CNN @CNN, 15 July 2015

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Day 110 On 2nd look #Pluto
you look like a planet. Sorry I doubted you. Good night from @space_station! #YearinSpace: image via Scott Kelly @StationCDRKelly, 15 July 2015

I feel small again, but in a big, amazing way! Pluto -- Fuck Yeah!


 
Pluto, Jupiter and Neptune: Caravaggio, 1597-1600, ceiling painting in oil, 300 x 152 cm (Casino dell'Aurora, Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)

SNEAK PEEK of gorgeous Pluto! | by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

SNEAK PEEK of gorgeous Pluto!: image by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 16 July 2015

New Horizons Launches to Pluto | by colinjcampbell

New Horizons Launches to Pluto: image by Colin Campbell, 19 January 2006

TONIGHT, JULY 16, 2014! Ask Experts About the New Horizons Mission to Pluto! | by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

TONIGHT! Ask Experts About the New Horizons Mission to Pluto!: image by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 16 July 2015

Pluto By Moonlight | by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

Pluto by Moonlight: image by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 14 July 2015

New Horizons 3-billion-mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic #plutoflyby! | by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

New Horizons 3-billion-mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic #plutoflyby: image by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 14 July 2015

Pluto and it's moon Charon Shine in False Color | by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Pluto and it's [sic] moon Charon Shine in False Color: image by NASA's Marshall Space Center, 14 July 2015

Pluto: All I've got to say is -- Kiss me!
 
celebrating PLUTO !  - NOT my image | by Shein Die

Celebrating PLUTO ! -- NOT my image: image by Shein Die, 15 July 2015

8 comments:

Angad Arora said...



"kiss me"

-"fuck pluto"

the echo perhaps must always be distorted,
for better or worse..


some more effects 'heavenlybido pluto':
http://angadarora.blogspot.in/

TC said...

Angad,

Thanks for sending your Pluto poem.

Quoting you:

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It is speculated that something
that was being
said
stopped andceased;
that observation, in contrast
to its function here,
arrests temporeality on pluto
-a kind of 'obreservation'.

One blogger claimed to have 'decoded what
was being said'. He said it is:


porn
star
pla to came
close to
plu to



Meanwhile,
in the university, some ling
-uistic extremists
are challenging the structure...

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Those university extremists ought to bring their structural challenges outside the university, so that we all may enjoy their dialectical activities in common.

I want them to tell us why people in Maine use such extraordinarily rude language on a more or less consistent basis. What is said in Maine cannot be said in Cambridge. Now why is that?

As for that blogger who "decoded what was being said", s/he must have access to some curious decoding tool -- the recently manufactured sort, with the hormones still a bit wet.

I don't think Pluto was ever saying anything, nor intending to say anything, nor possessing the ability to say anything. In that respect, Disney had it right.

There was never nor ever will be temporality on Pluto. Temporality is a human construction. Humans are more likely to be flocking to the Bates Motel than daring the flight to Pluto, any time soon.

I see Pluto as a sort of innocent bystander in this ridiculous jingoistic circus of supertech gadgetry, designed, as last year's ESA comet-probe program, to blare far and wide the brute victory-song of the mechanical.

I think these dwarf technological triumphs should be seen, as it were, from the other side -- that is, as entertaining cover stories meant to distract attention from the palpable present failure of capitalism, for all its clanking gizmos and polysemous heraldry, to address the imminent demise of life on this planet.

Nora said...

That's it. I'm no longer telling people I grew up in Massachusetts. I'm from the fuck-belt.

I heard an interview this week where a scientist noted that, in his opinion, anything smaller than Neptune should be counted as a dwarf planet. I kind of like that idea. It takes the pressure off Earth -- sure, we could do better, but what do you expect? We're not even a planet.

TC said...

Well, that's one way of looking at it -- I mean, us. Busy little overachievers with potty mouths, there it is... but nobody was expecting anything much better out of us, now, were they?

Aye, this new geographical understanding certainly does give pause.

I see that you do indeed come from rather a nest of hard-cursing troopers... but with little Crap to fear, and Douches few and far between.

(That very long stone's throw from the nearest Cunt would presumably be a safe distance, depending.)

My own linguistic derivations would point, hopefully not too ostentatiously, toward a ripe growth in Shit, Bitch, Asshole and Faggot.

Whereas here we both find ourselves, at this late and possibly dire pass, dead in the lap of Fuck and Fuckboy.

manik sharma said...

Fuck Pluto

Angad Arora said...

Tom,

more than construction, time is a human instruction..
And Pluto, perhaps, a threatening deconstruction..so better get it to follow the clock..which shouldn't be difficult, as Pluto's never saying nor intending to say anything anyway.

The Bates' motel too had the camera eye/i invest-igate it. And the camera did manage to solve the mystery. But then, again, the mystery was its own construction.

Perhaps if we decide for Pluto to be a non-planet, we could save ourselves the 'save the planet' masquerade cost and tense-lessly fuck Pluto..
Or make it a planet and then go 'save' it..Ploughto..

The innocence of Pluto is sentimental..and even factual, perhaps..but it's not legal yet..so it's still eligible for the terrorist threat list..depends on what it has..
Maybe it'll have an odd leap year and we could frame it for using steroids on track..
Or for downloading ('brute victory-song of the mechanical.mp3' (((((copyright))))))


"..outside the university.."

University is an attribute they must try to defend for their identity and its social benefits..it's a(t) tribulation. They do this (be 'universal') by denying the existence of the other..nothing's coming out of it..and nothing's outside of it. But then there are multiverses as per the scientists..
So..maybe someday..

Mon tue wed thur fri sat sun neptune pluto

Strengthened the weakened?..or more hours for the catapultist?..


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Go ogle@knelledge questions:

- How many gigabytes of space between Earth and Pluto?

- Download Pluto image and 'save as' what?

TC said...

Angad,

It was over before it began, it never was, it merely flew past unnoticed and sailed on into space to be forgotten like a 1930s cartoon...

The #PlutoFlyby... this year's Philae Lander.

Who dat?

How soon they forget, these water-and-carbon-based organisms...

Philandering Moon (We Are Not a Virus)

Philae Lander: Fade Out / Frantz Fanon: The End of the European Game

Nobody's ever going to sell Pluto on the idea of Time... or for that matter on the idea of anything.

What these clanking white world Tin Man spacegasms finally come down to is a form not of temporality but of temporizing...

An inflationary way of filling time by wasting it or wasting it by filling it with distractions that remain always virtual == dead (controllable) -- thus as remote as possible from any conceivable lived experience -- so that "the time just flies by" when "you're having fun"...

tem·po-rize· -- time, playing for time, using diversionary tactics -- from medieval Latin temporizare ‘to delay,’ -- cheapjack phantasmagoria of tech-toy worlds as necessary mesmerizing distraction

"This kind of mistake recurs again and again in philosophy; e.g. when we are puzzled about the nature of time, when time seems to us a queer thing. We are most strongly tempted to think that here are things hidden, something we can see from the outside but which we can't look into. And yet nothing of the sort is the case. It is not new facts about time which we want to know. All the facts that concern us lie open before us. But it is the use of the substantive "time" which mystifies us. If we look into the grammar of that word, we shall feel that it is no less astounding that man should have conceived of a deity of time than it would be to conceive of a deity of negation or disjunction."

He was walking past the material time of the hammer and sickle then he turned the corner and thought he saw Kali the Time Goddess awaiting him...

Wittgenstein: On the Myth of the Time Goddess

VINCENT FARNSWORTH said...

I spurned my sword into plough(to)shares
hate how I can't wait
for the future money from planet futures
to put off my let's-not-talk-about-it fate
you know as in
et tu pluto?