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Actually, I was
>thinking how futile the personal expression would be. What
>would I gain when whatever I, Ed, single human, did in regards
>to Pluto?>

Aw comeon Ed. Haven't you ever done anything just for fun? Remember the days before interstate freeways when we traveled on two lane roads? Remember those signs advertising "Just ahead three headed snake and a merman skeleton. 2 miles ahead"? Even though you knew there was no merman, didn't you ever stop, just for fun, or did you tell your kids "we're not stopping to see something that doesn't exist. All they want is our money and there's nothing for me to gain by stopping"?

I think we all know that nothing will ever come from having our names on the Pluto bound spacecraft but it's kind of fun to think that my name is flying around in the outer reaches of our galaxy and maybe beyond. And just maybe, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, some alien being might find it and wonder what I was like. I have nothing to gain by sending my name along but it was just some goofy thing to do.