Pluto Humor

[mabfan]

As many of you know, last week I announced the existence of the Society for the Preservation of Pluto as a Planet. Our goal is a simple one: to try and make sure that Pluto remains one of the planets of the solar system, no matter how planet is defined. We're serious about our desire to have Pluto remain a planet, but we also tend to acknowledge that there can be humor in the debate.

In what I presume is a response to SP3, some unknown wag has created Demote Pluto!, a website advocating the opposite of what we advocate. I have to admit that I find the website most amusing, especially the part where they suggest that the only solution to the problem is to

LOAD MULTIPLE CLUSTERED 100-MEGATON YIELD THERMONUCLEAR WARHEADS ONTO A SPACECRAFT CALLED NEW HORIZONS II AND AIM IT AT PLUTO AND CHARON! THEY MUST DIE! ONLY THEN CAN THE SOLAR SYSTEM REST SECURE!

I encourage any and all Pluto supporters to visit the website and laugh. And be glad that at least we are brave enough to put our names on record.

savepluto!

Comments

[sdelmonte]

You remember DC's "Our Worlds as War" storyline from five years ago? In that saga, Imperiex or Mongul II - I can't recall - turned Pluto into the new Warworld. At story's end, Pluto/Warworld was destroyed, presumably leaving the DC solar system with only eight planets.

Looks Mr. Demote Pluto is worried that Imperiex will come to our timeline.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I tend to feel that destroying planets or making fictional characters president in the DC universe works against reader identification. But hey, that's me.

Hardly Unknown

[brownpau.livejournal.com]

I'd hesitate to vaunt myself as an "unknown wag," seeing as how there's a link to me right in the footer on every page of the site. Glad you enjoyed the site; I made it for laughs and hopefully there'll be more to come as I add stuff.