Poll: One of the planets in our solar system must be destroyed! *besides earth*

[Purple Dragon]

if we get rid of jupiter our asteroid shield is gone, Jupiter stops asteroids smashing into us
i would destroy uranus for obvious comedic reasons

 

[Karakasa]

Since we're counting pluto we might as well count Jupiter's moons. so I would say blow up Europa because it's the most boring.

 

[Craig Cameron]

I already had to make this decision, hence the asteroid belt.

but if I had to do it again I'd hit pluto, it's so far out and tiny that debris wouldn't pose any threat.

 

[LogicNProportion]

To everyone saying Pluto, go EFF yourselves! It you've been named after the GOD OF THE FUCKING UNDERWORLD (or was it the other way around? I forget...) for at least 2000 years, I think you deserve to be called a planet. Arrogant little pricks...

Seriously, you know a few hundred years from now, when we have colonies on every planet in the Solar System, you KNOW there is going to be protests from Plutonians because they don't get some kind of tax break because "They technically aren't a planet!"

All monkeyshines aside, I vote for for Mars, for it harbors the Void Dragon!

 

[Flyingchciken93]

Pluto cause it doesnt count anyway

 

[bliebblob]

Mercury, Venus and definantly Mars are similar to earth so too interesting for research.

Jupiter and Saturn play a HUGE role in gravitational interactions in the solar system so getting rid of them is out of the question because it would pretty much screw up the entire solar system. The same is true, to a lesser extent, for Uranus and Neptune.
Plus they have all these interesting little moons that we'd lose along with them.

So all that's left is Pluto. Losing it wouldn't even be that big of a deal since it's actually just one of the bazillion icerocks floating around the solar system in a big circle. The only reason it was called a planet is because when it was discovered nobody realized it was just one of the larger blocks (not even THE largest, that would be Ceres) in a huge ring of blocks. And once we did realize it, the main reason it didn't immediatly lose it's planet title is because the guys who discovered Pluto and American astronomers in general were butthurt about it. Why? because Pluto is the only planet discovered by Americans and they didn't want to lose the prestige.

Dammit I started ranting again...

Anyway, yeah Pluto it is ^^'

 

[-Ezio-]

i'm guessing someone has already made a joke about blowing up uranus.

 

[teisjm]

Uranus, to end the jokes. That way future generation will have nothing to laugh about haha!!

Yet it will open up a whole new line of jokes.

"Did you hear, the international planetary demolition team just annihilated uranus, when they penetrated the surface, and blew their huge load inside it"

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I think we can manage without Mercury. I refuse to count Pluto as a planet because then we would have to add several thousands of planets to the system.

I heard it was only 3.

 

[direkiller]

To everyone saying Pluto, go EFF yourselves! It you've been named after the GOD OF THE FUCKING UNDERWORLD (or was it the other way around? I forget...) for at least 2000 years, I think you deserve to be called a planet. Arrogant little pricks...

the planet was named in 1919 by a 11 year old girl
the name had more saying power then outer suggested because of the mouse cartoon

yea that thing needs to go

 

[TheTim]

I think im going to destroy Uranus.

hahahaha

sorry my inner 5 year old got control of me there.

 

[JoJo]

To everyone saying Pluto, go EFF yourselves! It you've been named after the GOD OF THE FUCKING UNDERWORLD (or was it the other way around? I forget...) for at least 2000 years, I think you deserve to be called a planet. Arrogant little pricks...

Seriously, you know a few hundred years from now, when we have colonies on every planet in the Solar System, you KNOW there is going to be protests from Plutonians because they don't get some kind of tax break because "They technically aren't a planet!"

All monkeyshines aside, I vote for for Mars, for it harbors the Void Dragon!

Um, it hasn't been called that for 2000 years, it was discovered in February 18, 1930 and named by an 11 year old English girl. Plus when it was discovered it's mass was hugely over-estimated to be roughly the same as the Earth, when actually it's smaller than even our Moon!

 

[TFielding]

Jupiter. That way I can finally destroy that Monolith

 

[Fleaman]

The only one I know we absolutely need is Jupiter, since it eats a lot of meteors, but I'm not really up to date on orbital dynamics. I guess I'd get rid of Pluto, since it's a pretty good bet that it's irrelevant to Earth.

 

[crudus]

Neptune. When is the last time that rock do something for me?!

Neptune isn't a rock. It's gas.

The gas planets do have ground (I guess you would call it) underneath the gas.

 

[Josh123914]

It's funny. I had an Astronomy class this past year, and now I cringe at the idea of destroying any of them because I learned so many (practically) useless facts. I guess I'd have to go with Pluto, specifically because it is not a real planet despite how oddly attached people got to it. I find the whole campaign to keep Pluto a planet baffling.

Something like this. I didn't have an Astronomy class, but I've been interested in Astronomy since forever and I know hundreds of useless facts due to the huge amount of books I read on the subject. So, I'd only be able to sacrifice Pluto. It somehow seems destroying Pluto would have the least impact on our solar system. I do feel sorry a bit for Pluto, though. Poor thing, kicked out of the system and then blown up.

And people voting for Uranus, haven't you played Mass Effect? That shit will get us rich!

After the development of mass effect FTL drive, distant Uranus was the target of a "land rush" to exploit its combination of plentiful helium-3 fuel and shallow (for a gas giant) gravity well. Today Uranus is the largest producer of He-3 in Alliance space.

Yeah, not to mention that if we blow up pluto, what will happen to the Charon Relay? sure we found that Prothean data cache but if the Charon Relay never exists we may never find Mass Relays at all.