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More Fallout from Pluto


An angle I failed to realize by Matt Fraction:

Mounted to the sides of Pioneers 10 and 11, the Pioneer Plaque is a kind of base-level codec explaining Man and his position in the solar system. It is a visual reduction of the most barest of essentials of WHO WE ARE and, ho ho!, WHERE WE ARE. It says, HELLO! Spacemen! We are an intellgent, self-aware people that have an understanding of ourselves and our Space! This is who we are! This is where we come from! We’re SMART!

Here, take a closer look.

See? Right there, on the bottom-right. Fuckin’ PLUTO, bitches.

He’s right. All the aliens will have no clue how to find us cause we give them the wrong address.

“Gr’nark, isn’t this where they said to meet them?”

“No, Gr’narl. According to the Smarty McLabcoats, this system has 8 planets while the on this here plaque, we clearly see 9. We must pass this backwater system by and pass on the secrets to life and the perfect meatball recipe to another more intelligent species. To a civilization that acknowledges the ‘planetness’ of Pluto.”

It’s as simple as that.

Course, if the aliens are a bunch of haters, we could have just dodged a major bullet.

More on that via Fraction’s site.

(via warren ellis)

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