Infidels!
An imaginary interview -
You're a member of an Islamist terrorist organization, right?
"I am, the grace of Allah."
A question - Do you want to go down in history as a culture of death-besotted killers who came up with the concept of the lethal Birth Canal of Death or the culture that put another robot on another planet?
"... Is this a trick question?"
No, really. Which would make you proud? Coming up with cunning ways to blow up men, women, and children on airplanes or putting rockets on other planets?
"... This planet, it is an infidel planet?"
Depends if there is life there, I guess. That's what the probe is meant to find out.
"So the probe could discover Zionist infidels on another planet."
They'd be microscopic Zionists.
"But infidels nevertheless!"
Most probably.
"So! This robot you send - when it finds these deviously small Zionists, it blows itself up! Correct?"
*Sigh*. Yes. Yes, it blows up, and then the other microbes throw a party and the European Union warns Israel not to even look at Mars. Sheesh. Ok. Let me rephrase this. Does it impress you guys at all that we can aim rockets at Mars and land the package right in the crater we intended to hit? Granted, the crater is the size of Connecticut ....
"Which is full of infidels!"
Excerpted from James Lileks, Newhouse News Service, 09 January 2004.
LOL. It keeps going from there :-).
You're a member of an Islamist terrorist organization, right?
"I am, the grace of Allah."
A question - Do you want to go down in history as a culture of death-besotted killers who came up with the concept of the lethal Birth Canal of Death or the culture that put another robot on another planet?
"... Is this a trick question?"
No, really. Which would make you proud? Coming up with cunning ways to blow up men, women, and children on airplanes or putting rockets on other planets?
"... This planet, it is an infidel planet?"
Depends if there is life there, I guess. That's what the probe is meant to find out.
"So the probe could discover Zionist infidels on another planet."
They'd be microscopic Zionists.
"But infidels nevertheless!"
Most probably.
"So! This robot you send - when it finds these deviously small Zionists, it blows itself up! Correct?"
*Sigh*. Yes. Yes, it blows up, and then the other microbes throw a party and the European Union warns Israel not to even look at Mars. Sheesh. Ok. Let me rephrase this. Does it impress you guys at all that we can aim rockets at Mars and land the package right in the crater we intended to hit? Granted, the crater is the size of Connecticut ....
"Which is full of infidels!"
Excerpted from James Lileks, Newhouse News Service, 09 January 2004.
LOL. It keeps going from there :-).