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Cow-Shark Discovered on Exoplanet

Vim Vocifero

Last Wednesday, astronomers made an astonishing accidental discovery while studying the atmospheric composition of the exoplanet Gliese 581 c. Their observations demonstrated with absolute certainty that the planet is inhabited by an animal which has come to be popularly known as the Cow-Shark. Cindy C. Carnell, a xenoethologist at the State University of Northern South […]

Former Planet Earth Now Really an Asteroid

Vim Vocifero
Public domain image (NASA) available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-Moon_System.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Earth-Moon_System.jpg.

When Pluto was demoted from a planet to a cartoon character, nobody really cared.1 But now that the same thing has happened to our own planet, we’re all very upset. Last week, the International Astronomical Congress decreed, by a 57-40 vote, that what was formerly known as the planet Earth will now be known as […]