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Some people just seem to want to kill all the fun they can. But Pluto lovers will have the last laugh. I envision the day when humans colonize the solar system and I dare say we will not just stick to "planets" as "they" see them to be. "They" are just plain wrong. I know because I spent a lot of time on Pluto as a child. After all, it is the only "planet" in the whole solar system who's inhabitents have developed DNA adjustment therapy that makes it possible for humanoids to swim through the gas's of gassy giants. How dare "they" try to steal that from me. "They" must be neo-cons - at the very least republicans.

"swim through the gas's of gassy giants"

Ooh! Is there a water-wings equivalent for them gases?

After a screening of one of Mayazaki's films and a trip the OMSI (the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) my four yr old son decided that we should use a "sky sled" he saw in the movie (can't remember the title) to swoop through "gassy giants," his term for Gas Giants. His figureing was, that we could use some "nano-lights" to help us survive the atmosphere - though he was a little sketchy on the details of this. So we go from my childhood of DNA alteration to him wanting to use skysleds and nanites to survive it. I would imagine the skysleds could be an equivelent to water wings.

Great! Now if we can convert the atmosphere to something humans can actually breathe we're ready! ;)

So the boy and I discussed this last night and he felt it made more sense to convert humans into something that could "breathe" the atmosphere of the gassy giants. He feels that it would be cruel to life forms we might discover there if we destroyed that which keeps them alive. And for the record, although I believe that it is possible there are lifeforms there, I have not expressed that to my son - he figured that possibility out for himself. He said he would draw pictures of what he thinks they might look like.

I can't begin to express how exciting it is for me, that my child believes so strongly in conservation. Keeping in mind that he was very serious and quite adament that we should do nothing that would risk killing life forms that may or may not even exist. While we were watching a show on deep ocean trenches he got worried that, by shining light down there we might injure creatures who have never, in their existence, been exposed to light. It's moments like these that make me nearly burst with pride that this little boy is my son.

I don't blame you for being proud. He seems to have grasped the idea that changing one's self is legitimate, but forcibly changing something else to suit our needs isn't kosher.