Dear all.
Greetings in Jesus' name.
Just a little local (down-under) humour.
Enjoy.
The sky is falling.
As you are by now aware, the Russian Space Agency has announced that it will
be bringing the troubled Mir space station back to Earth. In fact, it
intends to crash Mir into the Pacific Ocean, just to the east of Australia.
This announcement sent our minds back to 1979, when NASA announced that its
Skylab station would crash into the Indian Ocean, just to the west of
Australia thanks to a slight miscalculation, it landed not far from
Fremantle. This prompts us to ask: why us? And also, to offer our five
alternative suggestions for the disposal of Mir:
1. Place it into geocentric orbit above Sydney and equip it with powerful
lasers to enhance the New Years Eve fireworks.
2. Use it to store all the unsold Syd, Ollie and Millie toys. They might be
worth something someday.
3. Convert it into Peter Reith's private telecommunications satellite.
Probably cheaper than his current phone bill.
4. Sell it to Bill Gates, unless he already has one.
5. Point it at someone else. New Zealand, maybe?
Apologies to our Kiwi friends.
John
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