July 4th, 2018
Remember, remember the fifth of November
the gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason
why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot
Most Americans don't have a clue what that poem represents.
All Brits know it well.
Look up Guy Fawkes and watch the movie V for Vendetta.
the gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason
why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot
Most Americans don't have a clue what that poem represents.
All Brits know it well.
Look up Guy Fawkes and watch the movie V for Vendetta.
Today is July 4th, in America we celebrate with fireworks. In Great Britain, November 5th is Guy Fawkes day where the gunpowder plot is celebrated with fireworks. It seems appropriate today to blend these two days (which memorialize resistance to rule) with a Pluto concept of mine which is my resistance to the mainstream science rule.
I voraciously toil to vocalize, verbalize and validate viable vivified variances containing volatile vacillating vicissitudes via variable verdicts which are in volition with not violation to validated verified viewable variations on Pluto.
That's a vast voluminous verbalization of V's to voice, but what I'm trying to say is, considering that my views often conflict with mainstream ideology. I rely on visible evidence along with, as much as is possible, reasonable and verifiable evidence to support my various viewpoints.
A case in point
I voraciously toil to vocalize, verbalize and validate viable vivified variances containing volatile vacillating vicissitudes via variable verdicts which are in volition with not violation to validated verified viewable variations on Pluto.
That's a vast voluminous verbalization of V's to voice, but what I'm trying to say is, considering that my views often conflict with mainstream ideology. I rely on visible evidence along with, as much as is possible, reasonable and verifiable evidence to support my various viewpoints.
A case in point
On page 95 (Weighed and Measured), I wanted to calculate the volume of an oblate spheroid shape so I could determine the volume of material an impactor would need to excavate the Sputnik Planitia basin in order to create Nimmo's supposed subsurface bulging ocean of water.
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I had located this paper titled
"Primordial N2 provides a cosmochemical explanation for the existence of Sputnik Planitia, Pluto". |
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In it they point out something important that I had not consider initially while making some volume calculations, the edges around SP are considered to be much shallower than the central region by reason of the smaller polygonal cells nearer the edges. Polygonal cells become much larger near the center of SP and are much smaller around its perimeter. This then is considered supportive evidence for the depth of the N2 (that is, assuming convection produces the cells).
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While writing my Flopper page, I was struggling with the idea that the southern area of Sputnik Planitia (SP) was a deep large pit because I had read a paper in which Bill McKinnon had said the southern area of SP around Norgay Montes was shallow.
Because of this, I began questioning my conclusion which had been based on visual evidence that it was a deep pit. The concept of small cells around SP's perimeter helps support or validate my earlier conclusion that the southern tip of SP is deep, really deep compared to the rest of SP. This section of SP is also the central focal point of Charon's oscillating tidal bulge energy created as Pluto's axis wobbles 24 degrees. |
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When I created the Flopper page, my reasoning for saying this southern area was deep started with the rubble pile of icebergs along the north western edge of SP. I figured if small rubble equals ground up ice bergs because of shallow N2 depth then larger rubble indicated deeper N2. This pattern repeats itself along the entire western edge of SP, the icebergs nearest the shoreline are smaller ground rubble ice block piles indicating shallower land. Larger rubble icebergs are further away from the shoreline deeper in the frozen nitrogen fluid. Down south at Norgay Montes the variance becomes massive with the 2.5 mile high ice berg mountains floating in the nitrogen ice. |
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My premise was based on the size of grounded rubble which to me meant smaller ice blocks nearer the shore line equaled shallow fluid while larger blocks further out from the shore equaled deeper fluid. Without really even realizing it, I was also using the polygonal cell's size as an indicator of the existence of the large V shaped pit. The roughly "V" shaped area in red and yellow below has no polygonal cells bounded by troughs making this the single largest polygonal cell anywhere on SP also making it the deepest area by far indicated by the 2.5 mile high icebergs (Norgay Montes), |
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On Earth the volume of water divided by the volume of ice is the same as the density of ice divided by the density of water. In other words the density of the ice bergs on Pluto divided by the density of the nitrogen fluid equals the amount of ice below the surface. On Earth the density of ice is 0.917 but on Pluto it is likely less than this because of gravity I will assume it to be 0.9 g/cm3 and the density of nitrogen is about 0.96 add some salts like tholin and it will rise slightly I will assume this density to be 0.97 g/cm3. This then would suggest 93% of the 2-2.5 mile high icebergs at Norgay Montes is below the surface or they could be resting on some bedrock ice below the surface. This idea is difficult for me to accept as it means the iceberg mountains would have to be about 30 miles deep.
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I figured the depth of the large pit area had to be at least 3-10 miles deep in order to allow N2 to buoyantly support the above surface ice mountains without grinding them into small blocks.
Even if the icebergs are sitting on bedrock it would still have to be quite deep in order to avoid grinding these mountains of ice into smaller pieces. NASA suggests the deepest SP can be is 10 km or 6.2 miles. Their estimates are based on the diameter size of the polygonal cells as a function of them being formed by convection currents. I am, however, not convinced the polygonal cells are produced by convection currents. The largest quantity of "sublimation" pits exist along the perimeter of the polygonal cells indicating more heat also exists along the cell edges not its center. Convection would make the cell's center hotter than the edges with more pits in the center, this is not what we observe. I don't think the cells are formed by convection because the visual evidence suggests they are instead large sheets of floating water ice covered and bounded primarily by N2 and CH4. 
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I waffled (wavered) a little bit on this idea but eventually settled on thinking the area surrounding Norgay Montes is deep not shallow. NASA (specifically Bill McKinnon) believes the Norgay Montes area is shallow similar to a beach. |
It also seems reasonable to assume this area is deep based on the fact this is the exact point at which Charon would induce a tidal bulge that is flexed and wobbled slightly as Pluto oscillates 24 degrees every 1.4 myr. 
Credit James Keane
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As Pluto's poles wobble back and forth, it has to torque Charon and the small moons along for the ride. This creates a twisting lead lag oscillating tidal bulge stress focused around Pluto's minimum principal axis (MPA). This MPA is focused directly in line with the V shaped pit. Another possible explanation for why this V shape pattern exist is because the ices are more relaxed or more fluid in this area (its warmer). |
The question then would be where is this heat coming from if not the tidal flexing wobbling bulge.
NASA scientists suggest Pluto has a hot core but they also suggest 150 km below the surface their theoretical ocean of water is freezing creating the expansion fractures so how would we get a hot spot rising all the way to the surface from a core which is 338 km deep when this ocean of water is already freezing 150 km below the surface?
NASA scientists suggest Pluto has a hot core but they also suggest 150 km below the surface their theoretical ocean of water is freezing creating the expansion fractures so how would we get a hot spot rising all the way to the surface from a core which is 338 km deep when this ocean of water is already freezing 150 km below the surface?
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This paper says,
We find that bottom heated systems, as assumed by previous studies, do not produce surface planforms consistent with the observed pattern. We propose that the long-term variations of surface temperature caused by variations in Pluto’s orbit over millions of years produces secular cooling equivalent to internal heating. |
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Sputnik Planitia is an ocean of taffy like frozen nitrogen. Its a lot easier energetically for nitrogen to reach its fluid state than water ice. Orbital variation just like tidal torque induced wobble is a reasonable explanation for describing what we see taking place with surface nitrogen at SP. Its not necessary to conjure up radioactively hot core concepts and subsurface water based oceans. These could easily be near surface processes induced by twisting torques and eccentric orbits and possibly by Neptune induced resonant pulses.
Sputnik Planitia's polygonal cells are heavily pitted along the perimeter of the cells (where the N2 is warmer) or along the boarders of the troughs. Towards the center of the cells where the ice blocks are coldest there are fewer pits. NASA calls these features sublimation pits.
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In this map, the surface of SP is identified with various color coded characteristic traits. Bread Slice, Kilauea and a few other yellow areas are errantly identified as impact craters. The area that butts up against the Norgay Montes iceberg mountains is colored in teal green. This teal blue/green color is identified with the following trait, dpp which stands for deeply pitted plains. More pits equal more heat. Larger polygonal cells equal more depth. |
Deeply pitted areas on the N2 surface of SP are associated with more heat, hence more pits. This then also implies this deeply pitted area is the warmest most active area within the SP basin. It is a hot spot over which Pluto's skin slips. Hot spot is a relative term as it takes little heat (63 K) to cause the N2 to reach its triple point.
V = 5
There are five things supporting the fact this V shaped section is deep and warm.
- Two and half mile high mountainous ice bergs formed from broken chunks of bedrock ice buoyantly indicate increased depth.
- Pluto's minimum principal axis (around which Charon's induced tidal bulge would oscillate) is located inline with this hypothetical pit.
- Deeply or heavily pitted surface areas on SP are warmer than less pitted areas. The area surrounding Norgay Montes is deeply pitted indicating it is the warmest area of SP.
- Ground up ice rubble is small near the shallow shoreline and large in deeper areas. The V shaped area has 2.5 mile high water ice block mountains floating in the N2 ice.
- The polygonal cells have smaller diameters nearer the shoreline indicating shallower depths. The V is the largest single area without polygonal cell troughs.
The visual evidence vindicates the assertion the V is a deep warm pit, its warmer and deeper than the rest of SP.
Vive la resistance
Vive la Pluto
Vive la resistance
Vive la Pluto
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Here's the highest resolution image of Pluto I have.
Its 8,000 by 8,000 pixels, most are 5,000 by 5,000. |
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