Not plane, nor bird, nor even a bandanna—

December 30th, 2006 by Morgan J. Locke

—Look! Up in the sky! It’s a flying banana! In honor of our buddies in Texas, I am posting this newsflash. A group is planning to launch what they call an “art intervention,” a gigantic banana, into a geostationary position between the upper atmosphere and low orbit, intended to hover over Texas for about a month. Further details are here.

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4 Responses

1. Steven Gould Says:
   December 30th, 2006 at 8:05 pm

   The domain alone, says it all.

   
   geostationarybananaovertexas.com
   

   Wow.

2. Bradley Denton Says:
   December 30th, 2006 at 9:23 pm

   Whether they succeed or not, I will persist in hoping that the upper atmosphere is just glad to see me.

3. Morgan J. Locke Says:
   December 31st, 2006 at 1:48 am

   I hope that the upper atmosphere is never ABLE to see you unless you have a space suit on… (Hmmm. An atmosphere with eyes, and a big “banana.” Sounds like a Rory Harper story.)

4. Rory Harper Says:
   December 31st, 2006 at 3:59 am

   My attorneys are in the process of contacting them. I, of course, hope for a prompt, generous out-of-court settlement and public acknowledgement of their theft of things I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

   I try to be a nice person, but this is egregious, and I’ll go as far with it as is required. At least they didn’t mention the peanut butter.

   Also, to quote Sigmund Freud, “Sometimes a banana is just a banana”.