NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find, Kill God

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I feel like I get it but find it difficult to describe most humour. Must be common with a lot of Aspies.

Please provide your interpretation of it?

Okay, I would like to amend my post--only moderately funny, sorry on third reading less funny.

1. The first time I read this I appreciated the shock factor, it was just so over the top.
2. I didn't find it offensive since I am not religious.
3. I like the directness. There is no pretense of subtlety anywhere.
4. A serious scientific agency trying to "kill god" which is a religious concept is funny.
5. I like the language usage: for example "He" as a capitalized pronoun.
6. "He destroyed the Challenger shuttle, killing all seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a special operative who had been given orders to seduce and then strangle God with garrote wire" talk about turning a tragedy into bizarre hyperbole!
7. "a certain reverence for the deceased deity pervaded NASA headquarters" after all the trash-talk against god than this irony!

This article is just moderately funny, not nearly as clever as most other Onion articles.
It does seem as though The Onion is losing a little bit of cleverness though recently.
I really like the satire on the Onion because the direct in-your-face language and the dry humor.

ok, i will admit here to being the clueless one- now will somebody kindly diagram for me, just what was being satirized in that onion piece? was it god? nasa? mankind's hubris? journalism as practiced in this day and american age? all of the above?

It was just this morning that I was like, what does NASA stand for again anyway?

Interesting. @_@

Anyways, uh, everyone is blowing it way out of porportion. It's either funny or it isn't. To me, I found it kind of funny. The onion's only funny if you don't read it everyday, though.

I think the Onion is funny. I read it every day. Although, there are a lot of days when they don't post stories.
You make a good point. Sometimes when you overanalyze humor it is no longer funny. Someone specifically asked me to explain why it was funny, so I did my best to accept the challenge. I did notice the first time I read it I laughed, wheras the third time it didn't seem so funny.

I like the Onion. They are not prejudiced, really they make fun of everything equally
This is not their best by far, but was still amusing

That is something I always like about The Onion`s general sense of humor

I prefer The Onion's British cousin, NewsBiscuit.