1551: Pluto

2015-07-14T19:43:21Z

Larrybolt: Added reference to firefly!

{{comic
| number = 1551
| date = July 14, 2015
| title = Pluto
| image = pluto.png
| titletext = After decades of increasingly confused arguing, Pluto is reclassified as a "dwarf Pluto."
}}

When the image is clicked the latest [http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-spacecraft-displays-pluto-s-big-heart-0 NASA post] opens up.
==Explanation==
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This comic was posted on Tuesday, July 14th (breaking the normal MWF cycle for xkcd) in honor of the New Horizons deep space probe making its flyby of Pluto! Randal has taken the largest publicly-released image and drawn humorous pareidolia on top of it.

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! Description
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| Candy Shell
| Suger coating
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| JPEG Plumes
| JPEG has the common issue of making RGB squares over an image
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| Frontal Bone
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| Grease Stains
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| Bugs
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| Bullet holes
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| New Netherlands
| Reference to [[1519: Venus]] and also a What If? about draining the Earth's oceans onto Mars. In that What If?, the Netherlands issued forth from the portal that drained the oceans to claim Mars as New Netherlands. Presumably something similar happened on Pluto.
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| Disputed territory
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| Snake pit
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| Full text of the wikipedia article on pareidolia
| Pareidolia is the issue of making up patterns that don't exist, such as this one.
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| Dinosaur
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| Tadpole
| A tadpole is a stage in the life of a frog
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| Kuiper Belt loops
| The {{w|Kuiper belt}} is a kind of belt surrounding our solar system
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| Serenity
| Reference to {{w|Firefly (TV series)}}
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| Dinosaur
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| The Good Part
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| Moon bud
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| Ghost
| A reference to {{w|Pacman}}
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| Pluto dinosaur extinction crater
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| Charging socket
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| Cracks (beginning to hatch)
| Implying that Pluto is some manner of giant egg
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| Scars from predator attacks
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| Reset button
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| Megaman
| {{w|Megaman}} is a videogame character in the franchise with the same name
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| Plug (Inflating/Deflating)
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| Heart
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| Mount Mons
| Referring to the general practice of naming extraterrestrial mountains "X Mons" (e.g. {{w|Olympus Mons}}, a mountain on Mars and the largest mountain in the Solar System), as well as naming terrestrial mountains "Mount X".
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| Coronary Artery Disease
| Also known as {{w|ischemic heart disease}}
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| Debate Hole where we're putting all the people still arguing about pluto's planet status
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| Area missed during ironing
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| Chocolate frosting
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| Probably Benign
| A {{w|Benign}} is a flock of tumorcells
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| Vanilla Frosting
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| Border of pride lands
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| Hyena country
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| Dock connector
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==Transcript==
{{Incomplete| Needs to have better explanations, these are just the most basic of the basic}}
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1551: Pluto