NASA to put family on Mars! They won't be coming back.

Publication: Sun
Date: 29 November 2010

This story is a little strange, and not just because it's completely unbelievable. Supposedly, cash strapped NASA is going to send a family to Mars and they won't be bringing them back. This sounds like a Weekly World News story, but it's on the cover of the Sun in color, not in black and white, and the official and only Weekly World News headline this issue is about the World's Fattest Cat, the least interesting continuing story in the WWN's storied history.

Could the Sun be giving up on the end of the world stories? That would be sad.

I want to make it clear that I don't think there's a shred of truth in this story, but if we are going to send a family to Mars, would it be too much to ask for it to be this one? Pretty please?

If you tell the little wifey there's a big check attached, she's sure to jump at it. The fact there's nowhere to spend the money once they get to Mars won't occur to her until they are safely on their way.

She almost as thick as she is greedy.