Wednesday, January 18, 2006
U.S. Fires Nuclear Device At Pluto
As the peaceful Plutonians groom their icy fields, raise their icy children, and worship their icy gods, far away the people of the blue planet searched the Solar System for the smallest, meekest, most defenseless planet, and fired a nuclear-tipped rocket at it. Initially flummoxed by gentle breezes and delicate clouds, Earth's fastest rocket finally launched, and will reach Pluto in just nine years. Let that teach you, planet-pretending Kuyper-object Pluto!
