Mount Palomar, California (IP) - Dr. Povenmire Finootch is the head astronomer operating at the Mount Palomar Astronomical Campus in California. He told reporters yesterday that a cloud of antimatter 10,000 light years in diameter is heading in the direction of the solar system.
Dr. Finootch called for an emergency meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in order to create a think tank that might possibly develop a solution to the imminent destruction of the solar system and the Earth.
The meeting seemed to be straying off course when someone brought up a discussion in reference to the recent demotion of Pluto from planet to sub-planet status.
Suddenly Dr. Finootch jumped up and yelled, "That's it !"
The members of the think tank fell silent and waited impatiently for the eccentric Dr. Finootch to share his gestaltic illumination with them.
Finally after a long pause Dr. Finootch lowered his voice to a whisper and told the anxiously awaiting members of the scientific team his idea, "We demoted Pluto from planetary status and therefore Pluto is now just an obese member of the Oort cloud. We can obliterate the cloud of antimatter simply by voting to do away with it".
A murmur swept through the crowd and heads everywhere were nodding enthusiastically. A vote was held to write off the nefarious cloud and it was a unanimous vote of 100 to Zero.
Afterwards a large soiree was thrown and all the participating members of the elite scientific team assembled there felt secure in the shared and total consciousness of their own virtue and importance - it was an awareness not shared by Pluto nor the cloud of antimatter to which matter does not matter at all.
