I Wonder If It'll Be Friends With Me...

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, this is just too fun.  I'm sure most if not all of you were aware that NASA rammed a probe into the Moon last week in an attempt to kick up a debris cloud that could be analyzed for traces of water ice.
What you may not know is that the probe was equipped with a Twitter feed.

And on its final plunge into the Moon's surface, it Twittered the lines uttered by a certain unexpected whale that came into being high above the surface of Magrathea.

I kid you not.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Logan Darklighter]

Okay, that is astoundingly cool and a funny. And a wonderful tribute to boot.

[HoagieOfDoom]

Ha! It's good to know that someone over at NASA has a sense of humor.

[Black Aeronaut]

Oh wow, that is just fucking hilarious!

ETA: Oh, and in case you wanna see it for yourself...

[robkelk]

Nasa made no mention of Adams's bowl of petunias, which thought only "Oh no, not again" as it tumbled towards Magrathea.

That's obviously being saved for the follow-up mission.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012