THE STUPIDEST PROMOTION THAT EVER CAME FROM A GOVERNMENT AGENCY

Hey, gang – NASA has come up with a great idea for Earth Day, April 22nd! Adopt-the-Earth! Here’s how it works: NASA has sectioned off 64,000 individual pieces of Earth. You go to the NASA website and sign up to adopt one of those sections. The pieces are about 55 miles wide and assigned randomly. No, you don’t get legal or property rights to your section. But here’s what you do get: scientific data about that section, such as the relative humidity, and the height of the clouds there (* Gee, Mr. Wizard!). And once all the adoptions fill up, your section will then be given to someone else.
* Or to use the current vernacular, your land will be “re-accommodated”.
* If you ever wanted to know the relative humidity of a 55 mile section of Ulan Bator, here’s your chance.
* Sounds like NASA cheated by looking at The Weather Channel’s paper.
* Damn it, NASA, stop screwing around and get us to Mars!
* Hey, kids: instant Science Fair project!
* Sounds to me like yet another freakin’ ecosystem diorama. Those things are everywhere. Watch a nature show on TV: ecosystem diorama. Go to the history museum: ecosystem diorama. Go to the zoo: ecosystem diorama. Back of a cereal box: ecosystem diorama.
* What if you don’t want scientific data about your section?
* In fact, you don’t even want a section.
* What’s next for NASA’s promo team? Astronaut Bobblehead dolls?
* You know Earth Day, right? That’s when we celebrate the parts of the planet we haven’t managed to destroy yet.