{"id":1523,"date":"2005-07-05T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/07\/05\/ready_aim_fire_answer_to_ross.html"},"modified":"2005-07-05T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T10:08:16","slug":"ready_aim_fire_answer_to_ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/07\/05\/ready_aim_fire_answer_to_ross.html","title":{"rendered":"ready&#8230; aim&#8230; fire! (answer to Ross)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the questions entry, Ross jokingly asked for me to summarize the period in which i was gone.  I actually think that everything about humanity can be summed up in the first event that i heard about upon returning.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4th, a NASA projectile successfully intersected with a comet &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/externalflash\/deepimpact_front\/index.html\">a &#8220;smashing&#8221; success<\/a>.  A Russian astrologer became <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2005\/07\/05\/1117972-ap.html\">hysterical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t you just see it?  A bunch of NASA boys sitting around stoned off the gourd imagining what they could do for fun.  &#8220;Dude, i know!  Let&#8217;s shoot the moon.&#8221;  &#8220;No, dude.  That&#8217;s too easy.  We need to shoot something moving.&#8221;  &#8220;Dude!  I know dude!  A comet!  Let&#8217;s shoot a comet!&#8221;  &#8220;Dude!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result?  Probes and projectiles engaged in &#8220;deep impact&#8221; conveniently placed in the newspaper next to the latest news on &#8220;deep throat.&#8221;  And really, probe or no probe, it&#8217;s basically an aiming mission, the million dollar version of the bulls-eye target practice in boys&#8217; bathrooms.  As my friend at NASA pointed out, the impact is equivalent to throwing a penny at a 16-wheeler.  And can&#8217;t you just see the NASA dudes&#8217; faces when a Russian woman started screaming about the deformation of her horoscope?  &#8220;But can&#8217;t you seeeeeee?  Nature is defenseless against your masculine ejaculations!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some things never change but they do continue to amuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the questions entry, Ross jokingly asked for me to summarize the period in which i was gone. I actually think that everything about humanity can be summed up in the first event that i heard about upon returning. On July 4th, a NASA projectile successfully intersected with a comet &#8211; a &#8220;smashing&#8221; success. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}