Tag: space
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The Real Reason Behind the Fall of Icarus
Let me get this straight, Icarus — we’re to believe that you were smart enough to design a way to fly of your own volition, but stupid enough to fly “too close” to the sun? Uh-uh. I’m not buying that story. Something else went down. A mistake so foolish and easily avoided that you decided to blame…
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Government-issued astronaut diapers
Remember when that astronaut got busted for her ill intentions toward the other woman in her love triangle? “No, that doesn’t ring a bell.” The one who wore diapers on her road trip? “Oh, yes! That astronaut!” Everyone remembers the diapers. Everyone mocked the diapers. But I can tell you, as the mother of a…
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Zero Fs for Zero G
A demotivational children’s story When you grow up, kid, you can be anything you want to be. Except for an astronaut. Every child born since humankind first entered space has wished to be in zero G. It is not a unique dream. There are 332,624,742 people in the U.S., of which only 365 achieved careers…
A Flick of the Pen 