The Pluto problem

[heisenbug]

I've got it! Someone should just go out there, grab some matter from Neptune or whatever, and add it onto Pluto until it's big enough to be a planet again. Problem solved.

Or, at least, this idea could be made into a movie. It would basically be a remake of The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill, etc., only sci-fi. With, you know, charmingly eccentric aliens and stuff.

Comments

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

Great idea! I hear Hugh Grant has a lot of free time these days :).

[jg26.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of 2010 (or was it 3001?), where the monoliths add mass to Jupiter to make it a brown dwarf... thus allowing europa to flourish.

[heisenbug]

Oh yeah... I'd forgotten about that. I probably was subconsciously inspired by it.

It must have been 2010, because I remember Jupiter becoming a star, and I didn't read any of the later ones.

[jg26.livejournal.com]

... and I didn't read any of the later ones.

You're not missing much.