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three hours today, NASA lost contact with its International
Space Station. To say that there were moments
of panic within the space agency that has resorted to planting
flowers and trees in its recent years after massive budget cuts
is an understatement. NASA
Administrators were preparing their resignation letters as they
feared the worst - that a meteor had taken out several billion
dollars worth of space equipment and the agency wouldn't be able
to dream of sending astronauts into space to test the effects of
no gravity on chewing bubble gum.
There was some
calm restored as Russians could contact the International Space
Station by radio when the station passed over Russia.
Concern over this
disappearance caused the space agency to contemplate that
perhaps a magician like David Copperfield had made their station
disappear by an illusion in order to make Copperfield a
household name after he has virtually disappeared himself from
the public's attention.
Other potential
causes of the disappearance of the station were considered -
that Iranian President Yabadabadoo had launched himself into
space and had taken over the space station so he could use it to
hang political prisoners.
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There
was also some worry that the space station had been seized by
the Borg and had been assimilated and used to hunt down Captian
Picard who had escaped being transformed into an Obama voter.
NASA has recently
been full of much disappointment as it is now just turned into
an agency that fires off Lego toys to Mars to search for water
and life. Congress has cut the NASA budget to
about 25 cents per year and most of the staff that remains are
in their 90's and use canes to navigate the hallways and have
resorted to using discarded robotic probes to act as motorized
wheelchairs.
By mid-afternoon
today full communication with the Space Station was restored and
the problem with the disappearance had been traced to an Apple
software update that was designed to prevent the Space Station
from being unlocked allowing NASA to change communications
providers. Apple denied this saying that they
were just trying to clean up the mess of bad java and flash
programming and then issued a statement that NASA shouldn't
blame Apple as Apple never has issues with its perfect software
and shifted the blame to NASA for installing a third party app
to spy on topless chicks on tropical islands. |
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