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    The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"

    The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
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    Image of jcous jcous
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"
    And the moon itself is to be re-named "Teen Titan"
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    Image of WandaShako WandaShako
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"
    Chusuk (Choo-suhk) is a Korean holiday, celebrating the harvest. The Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving.

    Perhaps these are the Plains of Thanksgiving?
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    Image of cletar cletar
    08/06/09

    @WandaShako: Yes. It's where the brave pioneers of Titan landed. Fleeing the oppression of Old Earth, these hardy space-pilgrims longed for a new birth of freedom on the plains of Titan. Upon landing, their leader proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving.
    Then they all died of methane poisoning.
    Poor bastards.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"
    Almost seems like they named it after Chuck Palahniuk, no?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"
    Why did they chose Chusuk indeed. I can think of a number of Dune plants (besides Arrakis) whose names I'd use before getting down to Chusuk. Besides, it doesn't really seem like Chusuk has much to due with the sandy-nature of the plain. I'd go with Caladan, Salusa Secundus, or Geidi Prime before Chusuk.
    My guess is it's some sort of test, to measure the geekiness of other scientist reading this news. A geekometer if you will.
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    08/05/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Also, it's fun to say and will spawn all sorts of stupid corny jokes ala Uranus.
    "Chusuk!"
    "NO you!"

    "It's Chusuk!"
    'Bless you."
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    08/05/09

    @Evdor: I would have gone with Ix. I hear they have many machines on Ix--new machines.
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    Image of Neiten Neiten
    08/06/09

    @OW-Holmes: Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.: Yeah, but better than the ones on Richese?
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    Image of ShuklaJalookhi ShuklaJalookhi
    08/05/09

    In reply to The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"
    I'd say they're saving Arrakis for an actual 'Dune.'
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    08/05/09

    @ShuklaJalookhi: But that's what's cool - Titan does actually have dunes. Of course it also has oceans, which admittedly makes it not a good comparison with Arrakis. We can only hope it has worms.
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    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    Highlander 2 (slightly worse than Boondock Saints) has a planet Zeist, this has an island called Breda, what is it with SciFi and obscure Dutch towns?


    *an especial focus*?

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/26/08

    @str88f: I dunno . . . "especial focus" sounded good when I wrote it at 1 AM. Just pretend it's from a conlang.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    I wish more sci-fi and and fantasy authors paid this much attention to the geography of their worlds...

    I can't count the number of time I've started a book (esp fantasy) that had a map right at the beginning...then on the fist damn page the author mentions a city/region/lake etc - I turn back to the map, and it's nowhere, nothing on the damn map at all...it's infuriating...

    The Tolkien maps are great...if not super detailed, but you can at least follow the general path the characters take...
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/26/08

    @goldfarb: This is a good one, from "Bored of the Rings"


    [amethyst-angel.com]

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    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    You know it's science fiction because the roads are logically laid out.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    Yay Maps!


    I credit my lifelong interest in reading to a young interest in Tolkien.

    I credit my young interest in Tolkien to the maps.

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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    Speaking as a GIS specialist and a cartographer, very well done.


    Speaking as a sci-fi geak, FUCKING AWESOME!

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    May I suggest an entire blog dedicated to strange maps: the appropriately named


    [strangemaps.wordpress.com]

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/26/08

    @NotChoinski: One of my favorites: Web trends (albeit 2007) in the form of a subway map (modeled on Tokyo's)


    [strangemaps.wordpress.com]

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/26/08

    @NotChoinski: I love this blog so much. Thanks for posting it.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/26/08

    @Annalee Newitz: I saw Kotaku and Valleywag on that subway map but not io9. Why are we not on the map?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/26/08

    @Grey_Area: Oooh! Maybe we're not a subway station, we're a zeppelin!
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/26/08

    @Grey_Area: Because the map is from 2007?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/26/08

    @NotChoinski: Then we must time-travel back and get added!


    Although I like being a zeppelin better.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/26/08

    @NotChoinski: Oh yeah, right--the reading thing.
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    Image of braak braak
    11/26/08

    In reply to The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps
    Well...okay. I guess that's pretty awesome.
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