NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find, Kill God

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25 Feb 2011, 3:45 pm

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WASHINGTON—After more than five decades of tireless work, brave exploration, and technological innovation aimed at a single objective, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Wednesday that it had finally completed its mission to find and kill God.

"I am ecstatic to tell you all today that we have beheld the awesome visage of the supreme architect of the cosmos, and we have murdered Him," jubilant administrator Charles Bolden said after being drenched with champagne by other celebrating NASA employees. "There have been innumerable setbacks, missteps, and hardships over the past 50 years, but we always stayed true to our ultimate goal and we never gave up."

"We finally got the son of a b***h!" Bolden continued. "He's dead! God is dead!"

According to officials, God was killed this morning on the moon by a highly trained team of seven astronauts. He was reportedly lured into a trap after coming into contact with the Voyager 2 probe, which was transmitting a false message that NASA wanted to broker a truce with God on "neutral ground."

"One of our lunar rovers captured an image of God at approximately 2100 hours last night, and we immediately launched a vessel manned by our best assassins," said Richard Egan, Mission Control Chief at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "After exiting the lunar lander, the astronauts approached God under the false pretense of peace, but He must have sensed something was amiss and fled. Our men gave chase in a moon buggy, finally overtaking Him in a crater where He was subdued after several minutes of violent hand-to-hand combat."

Egan told reporters that it took as many as five highly trained astronauts to fully restrain the Supreme Being. He also confirmed that three of the astronauts sent to kill God were badly injured, but were expected to recover.

"He was damn fast. And strong—as strong as anyone I've ever engaged," said Captain Trevor Sullivan, the astronaut who, after his weary team dragged a bloodied and beaten God back to the lunar module, executed Him with a single gunshot to the head. "He fought like a wild animal, and the fact that He's omnipotent really worked against us. But we know a few tricks ourselves, and after all was said and done, we took Him down for good."

"Gotta give Him credit, though, God was defiant right up until the end. Scrappy bastard spit right in my face just before I pulled the trigger," added Sullivan, smiling.

NASA was founded in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the express purpose of locating and assassinating God. By 1969, it had completed a successful lunar landing, bringing mankind that much closer to neutralizing the Almighty. It was in that year that U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first to step on the moon, and uttered the legendary phrase, "Where are you, God, you f*****g fa***t? Come and get me!"

Over the years, officials told reporters, God had proved to be an elusive and formidable foe. In 1986, 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. The Lord subsequently blew up the Columbia Destroyer Shuttle on reentry in 2003, and several times sabotaged the Hubble Space Telescope, a large piece of surveillance equipment launched into orbit in 1990 to monitor His activities.

"I can't tell you how many times God gave us the slip," NASA aerospace engineer David Williamson said. "We learned pretty quickly that you couldn't underestimate Him, not for a second. He was an unbelievably intelligent and resourceful enemy, and if you made even the smallest mistake, you can bet He'd make you pay for it."

Sullivan's begrudging respect for God was echoed by many other NASA officials and employees. Though most have spent the majority of their adult lives working toward killing God, a certain reverence for the deceased deity pervaded NASA headquarters.

"It's ironic that despite all of the technological advances and powerful weapons we've made, it was God's trusting and compassionate nature that was His final undoing," said Buzz Aldrin, a former astronaut who ripped out pages of the Bible on the moon's surface in an effort to enrage God and draw Him out of hiding. "I mean, you've really got to hand it to Him. He gave us one hell of a fight."

"I only wish it had been me personally who got to pull the trigger on that cocksucker," Aldrin added


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25 Feb 2011, 3:48 pm

The Onion is starting to get kind of...



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25 Feb 2011, 4:02 pm

... old? lol or different than before?

I still find it amusing. :)


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25 Feb 2011, 4:03 pm

PatrickNeville wrote:
... old? lol or different than before?

I still find it amusing. :)


Yeah, it can still be amusing, but it is different. :P
I liked it before.



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26 Feb 2011, 6:05 am

Meanies.


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26 Feb 2011, 7:40 am

Unfunny and bad taste.


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26 Feb 2011, 7:44 am

Ambivalence wrote:
Unfunny and bad taste.


I couldn't agree more. That was in very bad taste.


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26 Feb 2011, 9:13 am

The onion has some of the best written satire I have seen. This is a great example.

Very Funny! :D



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26 Feb 2011, 9:31 am

Totally funny, and if only...

Religion is bad mmmkay, all it does is get people killed and give those who preside over it power over others


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26 Feb 2011, 1:21 pm

Moog wrote:
Meanies.


Reminded me of the Beatles film Yellow Submarine :)


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27 Feb 2011, 12:24 am

The Onion can be hilarious - but a year or two back, they ran an "article" from the perspective of a stalker/peeping Tom that was just flat-out creepy. They played it way too straight to be humorous - whatever humor there is in that subject anyway. Been a bit leery of them since.


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27 Feb 2011, 8:23 am

PatrickNeville wrote:
Moog wrote:
Meanies.


Reminded me of the Beatles film Yellow Submarine :)

Me too. :D

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27 Feb 2011, 9:45 am

aspyoz wrote:
Religion is bad mmmkay, all it does is get people killed and give those who preside over it power over others


^^ Greetings aspyoz.

I do believe that what you have written is very interesting for me. ^^ I do indeed believe that many individuals may be killed as a result of religion and also provide power to a small number of individuals over others. However, personally feel that such matters are not a necessary condition for religions. In addition, if we assume there are a number of religions with these properties, I also feel that such religions are not unique in possessing these properties.

I personally feel that any strong belief, and therefore a group that is formed surrounding such a belief, may obtain these properties. For instance, there may exist nationalist groups who possess very similar negative characteristics.

I apologise this is very horrible of me.


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27 Feb 2011, 10:17 am

Ambivalence wrote:
Unfunny and bad taste.


Nah. I only wish the article was on BBC, not the Onion...


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27 Feb 2011, 12:15 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:
The Onion is starting to get kind of...


I agree. They keep looking for the bigger shock value to keep people coming back. This is not the brand of intelligent humor I had come to expect from the Onion.



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27 Feb 2011, 10:34 pm

Ambivalence wrote:
Unfunny and bad taste.


Disagree, excellent satire! :)

Does someone really want me to explain why this is funny? I hate explaining a joke but why do so many people not get it.