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August 17th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Hate to do this but…
Texas – doomed. Schools are now REQUIRED to teach the Bible in Texas.
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=10933571
August 17th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Ah, Tom beat me to it… Texas… doomed!!!
August 18th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Habitation intention? Other stuff? Stuff presumbly being planets. Habitation presumably being by humans.
Well okay, but just remember that Pluto’s already inhabited by us plutonium beings!
You can have Eris though!
August 18th, 2009 at 3:52 am
No you can’t!
Eris is our home, find your own planet – Makemake maybe?
August 18th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Oh alright then, you can make Makemake your home too as long as you don’t make Makemake too messy!
Just remember to bring plenty of beer and plutonium (I hear beer is good & we can always use plutonium as the main energy & life source here) and leave your creationists, homeopathists, chiropracters and dentists behind. We don’t want them here on Makemake – or the loons who protested Cassini’s flight to Saturn or the LHC either!
August 18th, 2009 at 4:10 am
You’re welcome to come & visit our ice dwarf planets too!
Tourism – like our world’s orbits – is pretty slow out here in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt & beyond & it may take you a while to get here but we’ll promise you a warm welcome! Well over three degrees Kelvin warm anyway!
Hey, everything’s relative right?
Especially extended families natch!
(Of course, being plutonium based lifeforms all our families are nuclear!)
August 18th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Okay y’all are welcome on our little ice dwarf planets too – except for your IAU mob anyway!
Tourism – like our world’s orbits – may be a bit slow & it might take you a while to travel out here but you’ll get a very warm welcome from us … Well over 3 degrees Kelvin anyhow!
(Hey its all relative – especially extended families! Not that we have those – being plutonium based lifeforms we’re all nuclear families!
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