Dark humor — and the whimsically falling Chinese space station

© 2018 Peter Free

 

02 April 2018

 

 

My wife thinks I'm an idiot — most of the time

 

Hearing that China's Tiangong-1 space station was falling, I thought it would be fun to spot its fiery streak and sprint under the projected impact.

 

That way I would be the only person ever (more or less randomly) killed by bus-sized satellite.

 

John Bolton, no doubt, would have called for war.

 

And American Homeland Security would have begun soliciting trillions of dollars to build a stringent net of near-space defense.

 

'Cause ya never know, them commies is out to get us.

 

 

You can imagine how disappointed I was . . .

 

. . . when Tiangong-1 unmemorably plunged into the Pacific Ocean.

 

 

The moral? — I will have to wait for another opportunity at 5 seconds of instantly forgotten fame

 

Darn.