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Mercury Messenger Spacecraft Discovers Abandoned Platypii Colony |
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Original Image courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution of Washington |
April 24th, 2011 Earth may not be the only planet that the Platypus race tried and failed miserably to colonize. When NASA's Messenger spacecraft went into orbit around Mercury last month there was a great deal of excitement about the fact that a side of the planet that had never been photographed before was now going to be laid bare before Science's grim and dispassionate purview (!?!). That excitement turned to shock as the first pictures were processed back on Earth, and what appeared to be the remnants of an ancient Platypiian colony nestled in a large crater became plainly visible. As to how long the Platypus race clung to life on the hostile surface of the planet is anyone's guess at this point. Apparently on Mercury and later Earth, eventually it came to "paddle on, my dear duckmole, paddle on, wipe that tear away, throwing electroreceptors forwards, never abaft, aback, aquack." |
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Gigantic Domed Colony in Watermole Crater was abandoned by the Platypii thousands of years ago. |
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Ruins stretch for miles under the transparent dome of Watermole Crater. |
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Some astroarchaeologists speculate that the platypodes fondness for cheesy statuary may have been in part responsible for their downfall on Mercury. Some astroarchaeologists say a lot of things! |
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