On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed the most intense eruption ever recorded on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanically active moon.

Please take a look at these earlier threads for some more info on the geology of Io.

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113646097353360432
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112295807752314128
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Io as shown in the 1984 film "2010: The Year We Make Contact".
In the book, Arthur C Clarke wrote:

"Io is Mordor: look up Part Three. There’s a passage about “rivers of molten rock that wound their way… until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.” That’s a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.'"

https://ia600800.us.archive.org/7/items/SpaceOdyssey_819/2010_Odyssey_Two_-_Arthur_C_Clarke.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor
#Io #Juno
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Io as shown in the 1984 film "2010: The Year We Make Contact".
In the book, Arthur C Clarke wrote:

"Io is Mordor: look up Part Three. There’s a passage about “rivers of molten rock that wound their way… until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.” That’s a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.'"

https://ia600800.us.archive.org/7/items/SpaceOdyssey_819/2010_Odyssey_Two_-_Arthur_C_Clarke.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor
#Io #Juno
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More from Arthur C Clarke's book "2010" -

"Some of the sulphur lakes are hot enough to glow, but most of the light comes from electrical discharges. Every few minutes the whole landscape seems to explode, as if a giant photoflash has gone off above it. And that’s probably not a bad analogy; there are millions of amps flowing in the flux-tube linking Io and Jupiter, and every so often there’s a breakdown. Then you get the biggest lightning flash in the Solar System."

https://ia600800.us.archive.org/7/items/SpaceOdyssey_819/2010_Odyssey_Two_-_Arthur_C_Clarke.pdf
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@AkaSci if only our 2010 were as cool as the novels', no crewed missions to Jupiter in the foreseeable future here....

@Lazarou
We suppose Arthur C Clarke was a little ahead of his time.

From his 1962 book — "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible" - his science and technology predictions from 1970 to 2100.

http://www.markrkelly.com/Blog/2019/10/31/arthur-c-clarke-profiles-of-the-future-1962-1999/

@Lazarou
We suppose Arthur C Clarke was a little ahead of his time.

From his 1962 book — "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible" - his science and technology predictions from 1970 to 2100.

http://www.markrkelly.com/Blog/2019/10/31/arthur-c-clarke-profiles-of-the-future-1962-1999/

@AkaSci "Immortality by 2100"

Bless, I would like to think it, but no.

@Lazarou
We suppose Arthur C Clarke was a little ahead of his time.

From his 1962 book — "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible" - his science and technology predictions from 1970 to 2100.

http://www.markrkelly.com/Blog/2019/10/31/arthur-c-clarke-profiles-of-the-future-1962-1999/

@Lazarou @AkaSci
Tech predictions are tough. In Clarke's novel _Imperial Earth_, published in 1975 and set in 2276, computers weren't able to solve the pentominoes puzzle.
In 1976, my friend and fellow 6502 Group member, Bob Ulshafer wrote a pentominoes solver in 6502 assembly language.

@Lazarou@mastodon.social @AkaSci@fosstodon.org
I’d like us to hold off on immortality until we have solved a few other things first. One of the few things that give me hope for the future is that one day, eventually, Rupert Murdoch will be dead.

@AkaSci @Lazarou

Cetacean languages?