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Shuttle Missions Will Be Monitored From Space
los furtive writes "According to this news article NASA has made an agreement with the U.S. military so that all future shuttle missions will be monitored by National Imagery and Mapping Agency satellites."
I have a better idea. What they should do is build a space shuttle out of indestructible materials so that even if the thing crashes at the speed of light into a sphere of iron the size of Earth and more dense than the universe before the big bang, it will be the sphere that will break and not the shuttle. And they should use these materials to build space ships the size of the whole planet and fly them around in space. Someone from another galaxy will be looking in their telescope at the planets and they'll see this thing move around and they won't understand what kind of weird orbit that "star" is in. It'll really get them thinking. Then, they'll fly over here to investigate it, find that Earth is rich in natural resources and kill us all in order to take these resources. At least that'll put Saddam out of power.
The article title left almost nothing to imagination. Jokes will spread all around, like that the next problem will appear as reported by "Monitor 9 from Outer Space", or if the next mission have an astronaut with religious conviction will say "somebody watch for me up there".
We should just ask them for copies of theirs.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
In related news...
American Airlines has announced that the regular "Atlanata Shuttle" flights will now be monitored from Atlanta.
-- Terry
We can see you mooning Russia
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Hurry up NASA... We've only got 60 more years until Zefram Cochrane is supposed to invent Warp Drive!
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