NASA Launches Giant Magnifying Glass Into Space

ByronScott writes "Early this morning NASA kicked off Operation LENS, an ambitious plan to concentrate and collect solar power using a giant magnifying glass in outer space. Long speculated to be a rumor, the 7,000,000 ft. wide lens was fabricated over the course of the past three years and launched from Cape Canaveral much to the dismay of almost every scientist in the world. While the first phase went exactly as planned, the plan hit a major snag when the magnifying glass began to work a bit too well, and ended up scorching large regions in the western hemisphere."

Comments

West coast scorched?

[mr_flea]

I hope someone sheds some light on this problem.

Full moon

[Stenchwarrior]

I'm going to go to the roof of my house and Moon NASA.

Re:April Fools Jokes get old..

[bastion_xx]

Same burning complaints back in the early 00's and even the 99's. At least now we have tags that shed light on the subject (so to speak).

Tomorrow will a brighter day, especially on the Left Coast.

In the operator's defense

[Locke2005]

They did say "From here those guys are so small, they look like ants!"

Re:Please Stop

[pushing-robot]

stop reading Slashdot for the day.

Ah, I remember when I could do that.