21st July Amazon spacecraft delivered to wrong address

 

With the world still reeling from last weeks tragic news that Richard Branson has returned successfully to earth following his trip to space, now humanity has to face the devastating realisation that bald billionaire Jeff Bezos’ trip to the edge of space has also passed without a hitch and he too has returned as planned.

After ground control crews and governments around the world had switched off all forms of communication, it had been hoped that having received no answer from its intended destination after waiting 5 seconds, the automatic landing system on the spacecraft would have reset to default Amazon Prime mode and delivered the package to the nearest neighbour. Which in this case would have been the moon. 

Unfortunately turning off technology failed and waiting press teams were forced to watch a perfect touchdown followed several minutes later by a beaming Bezzos, who had been launched into space in a rocket that looked like a giant cock, emerge from the capsule to give the trip 5 stars and an overly positive rating.

President Joe Biden, awoken from his afternoon nap, made a statement, calling for the world to unite to mourn this double blow.  Suddenly appear to be channelling Captain James T Kirk,  US President Biden announced, "this is a very bad day in mankind's quest to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!, Our thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by this disaster, and we will offer support and counselling to those personally affected by the news.” 

Grace Under Pressure understands that Elon Musk will be the next billionaire attempting to go into space in an electric powered craft. Who knows it might be third time lucky and someone might just pull the plug on this ego fuelled race for space.



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