R.I.P. 119V-0080



(Alternate title: The Bat Shuttle)

The Space Shuttle Discovery, launched yesterday, carried more than just its crew and equipment off the launch pad. It seems they had a stow-away, a bat.

bat clinging to the Shuttle's external fuel tank.

In typical NASA-Speak the bat was named "Interim Problem Report 119V-0080" and NASA says, again in typical NASA-Speak, "The animal likely perished quickly during Discovery's climb into orbit."

Or did he?!? First we have rabid, mutant, radioactive space mosquitos, and now we may have rabid, mutant, radioactive space bats. This can't be good.

(This has happened two other times, but both times the bat safely few away during launch, foiling NASA's evil plans for world domination through the creation of rabid, mutant, radioactive blood sucking creatures ... FROM OUTER SPACE!)

Posted: Wed - March 18, 2009 at 08:41 PM        

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