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Stop Planetary Discrimination Now!

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Jennie McGrath
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« on: August 02, 2007, 11:02:25 pm »

From the people of Pluto:




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Dear earthmen,

After our planet shared the same solar system with you for many millions of years, you finally discovered us in 1930. That was a rough year for planet Earth. Here on Pluto things weren't great either, but both of our civilizations survived.

Now, what's amazing is that you've been searching for more planets since Copernicus started in 1500s, searching the sky with telescopes - a method that seems like trying to cover every spot on a piece of paper with a pen the size of a needle tip. This task is definitely not for someone in a hurry, and your persistence has always been rewarded by great discoveries.

After you finally found our planet, you added Pluto to your group of known planets and it became very popular in your culture. By giving one of his popular cartoon characters the same name as our planet, Walt Disney himself made our name more widely known to a lot of you.

Now the times have changed. YOU created your elite cosmic club and now have downgraded the status of our planet. Not only that - you're taking our favorite number away - number 9. Why - because the other planets contribute more to the cosmic club and also have relatives within the club who are using their authority to help their family members. This is very disturbing.

Let's look at them - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. How are these planets better than Pluto?

There is a rumor that Uranus has lost one of the influential family members at the cosmic club therefore; its current status can be undermined in the near future. We're sure the club will soon come up with more strict tests to squeeze even more money out of us. We are not Guinea pigs neither are we Rockefellers. We are a planet, yes a planet not a big one but a planet. Stop running your telecopic tests on us!

So what, that our orbit overlaps with Neptune's? Let's disqualify Neptune as a planet too. This however, will never happen because they have numerous influential relatives at the cosmic club and therefore Neptune is untouchable.

Somebody from cosmic club came up with a name of "dwarf planet" or "minor planet" for us. Come again? That's what they call asteroids, comets and other natural satellites! Let us spell it out for you. This is d-i-s-c-r-i-m-i-n-a-t-io-n. That's what you do on your Earth and now you're trying to do the same thing in space. Somebody needs to stop this, now!

We have to admit that there were some good people on Earth that tried to defend our status at the planetary level but they were outnumbered by the ruthless rich club members.

The same fate awaited asteroid Ceres, which used to be a planet in 1800s and 2003 UB313 - nicknamed Xena that was discovered by Michael Brown from CIT. Nobody stood up for them back then. Our largest moon Charon is no longer even considered for any designation at all. We didn't mean to **** anybody off. We're just speaking the truth and looking for justice.
Neptunian conflict resolution proposal:

We can easily remove Earth's high rank status from our records but that would be very detrimental to your reputation at the galaxy level. So think twice about what you're doing here.
Let all people on Earth and Pluto vote together before the final decision is made. If everybody agrees to call us a "dwarf planet" then, be it. We will stop taking our demotion with a grain of salt.

Regards,

Independent Society of Pluto's Cosmic Affairs
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