start your engines, gentlemen and
gentle ladies–
last night houston crashed
a coffee table into a big rock.
this morning it is being billed as the
first look inside a comet
(with multiple exclamation points).
NASA now gets to cross intergalactic furniture
rearrangement off its shopping list.
speaking personally, deep impact lodges
mixed feelings within my thorax
us ants support the science,
but not the name, for 2 reasons–
a. it sounds like something you’d
find in the adult video section
and b. to you hunams it may sound
aesthetically pleasing
but to us ants it conjures images of the
mighty craters your feet leave behind in us.
36 years ago Neil Armstrong did his
famous space waltz
and here you are in 2005, acting as
galactic enforcers.
some would take this as a sign of
humanity’s regression
but personally, i think all forms of
scientific exploration are great
just as long as someone remembers
to bring along crackers
This is awesome, ersatz. Keep it up.