Sign up here to send your name to Pluto. NASA is taking names to be included on a mission to Pluto, which should arrive somewhere around 2017-2020.
Of course, they're sending the names on CD. Considering we Earthlings can't agree on which of two mutually incompatible formats (Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) for bouncing lasers off shiny discs to encode information, the odds that E.T. will be able to read a CD are pretty negligible. However, since I don't have the $200,000 to put down for a seat on Virgin Galactic's first suborbital flights, much less whatever it would take to get my whole self all the way out of orbit and to Pluto, a CD with my name will do.
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