Paul Riddell, who suffers no fool or media fan gladly, relates a breathless press release from a prophesy-obsessed outfit who claims the upcoming stage dive of the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter is a nefarious plot to initiate the ignition of the gas giant as a second sun.
No, the reason Galileo will burn up in the upper decks of the Jovian atmosphere next Sunday is to keep it from crashing into one of Jupiter’s moons and inadvertently contaminating them.
But hey, never let reality get in the way of a good story, right?
Wasn’t it just a couple of weeks back that the cranks were claiming that the opposition of Mars was going to rip the planet apart, and cause Larry Flynt to win the recall election?
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