APOD: Pluto: From Mountains to Plains (2015 Dec 14)

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Re: APOD: Pluto: From Mountains to Plains (2015 Dec 14)

Post by neufer » Sun Jan 10, 2016 3:26 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:
Well,,,if that don't look like a gigantic slug a crawlin down the trough
  • I would have said a Great Pink Sea Snail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Dolittle_characters#Great_Glass_Sea_Snail wrote:

<<This enormous undersea mollusk with a transparent airtight shell is injured when the mysterious floating Spidermonkey Island finally comes to rest in The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. The animals arrange for him to ferry Dr. Dolittle and his party back through the ocean to Puddleby. In the 1967 film, Dolittle resigns himself to living abroad for the rest of his life due to the price on his head issued by General Bellowes. The Great Pink Sea Snail takes Matthew, Tommy, Emma and a host of small animals from the Sea Star Island back to England. The final scene was complicated not only by the poor design of the large prop, but because Saint Lucia's children had recently been struck by a gastrointestinal epidemic caused by freshwater snails, and mobs of angry locals threw rocks at it.>>
Art Neuendorffer

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