so those nutty scientists sent a space probe to crash into a comet, just to blow shit up and see what was inside. oh and yeah, “for science”.
despite being named (ironically?) after the second crappiest comet-tries-to-destroy-the-earth movie, it was apparently a big success. they didn’t miscalculate anything, and they smashed stuff up, producing a big dust cloud of stuff in the middle of nowhere. just like the two accidents i saw on the bay bridge on my way to oakland yesterday, only this one will probably cause less congestion. but who’s going to clean all that shit up?
is it just me, or was anyone else secretly worried that they would accidentally destroy the entire universe? i mean doesn’t this fit every disaster movie to a tee, where scientists are just doing some tests of something they think is a huge leap in knowledge and will unlock the secrets to the universe, and instead they end up unleashing a) untold destructive power b) a terrible omnipotent supervillian c) hordes of supernatural undead. isn’t this how general zod got free in the first place? someone check demi moore: how many signs is she holding? has mimi rogers raptured yet?
weren’t you expecting the fabric of space and time to be ripped apart when we smashed that comet, just a little? as the world was being destroyed, you’d think, “DAMN YOU SCIENCE! NOT AGAIN!”
what i’m really surprised at is that none of the christian fundamentalists had these thoughts and tried to stop this whole thing. what if it turned out that the comet was actually the physical manifestation of heaven? or maybe the shuttle to heaven, and we’ve now just broken the door? oh sure, science says that it’s got nothing to do with that, but since when do they believe in science anyway? if they don’t believe in things like dinosaurs, evolution, pollution, or genetics, why should they believe in deep space science? it seems like that would be even more dubious to them, wouldn’t it?
well, i guess it doesn’t matter, as we didn’t blow up the universe after all.
unless it’s still coming.
or maybe we did blow it up, but we just don’t know it yet…
Posted at July 5, 2005 8:28 AMyou’ll be happy to hear some astrologist in russia is suing NASA for fucking up her horoscope.
heh.
Posted by: xz at July 5, 2005 9:29 AMI spent over an hour with high powered binoculars and an even higheer-powered telescope this weekend looking for the damn comet with a trained astronomer. I saw a lot of nothing.
The hubble has really ruined astronomy for me. Now when I look up at the sky I want to see big, beautiful nebulas and planets … but it’s all just white dots. Some bigger and brighter than others. It still inspires awe to think that everything we see is inside our own galaxy and we are just one of millions of galaxies. I thought the grand canyon was big.
Anyway, we’re still awaiting the onslaught of the giant, angry, telepathetic space slugs that were living in the comet - they should be here any day now. And I have good reason to predict that they’re pissed.
Posted by: jason at July 5, 2005 3:35 PMin the words of kent brockman, “i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.”
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