WASHINGTON—After more than five decades of tireless work, brave exploration, and technological innovation aimed at a single objective, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Wednesday that it had finally completed its mission to find and kill God.
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“One of our lunar rovers captured an image of God at approximately 2100 hours last night, and we immediately launched a vessel manned by our best assassins,” said Richard Egan, Mission Control Chief at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. “After exiting the lunar lander, the astronauts approached God under the false pretense of peace, but He must have sensed something was amiss and fled. Our men gave chase in a moon buggy, finally overtaking Him in a crater where He was subdued after several minutes of violent hand-to-hand combat.”
Egan told reporters that it took as many as five highly trained astronauts to fully restrain the Supreme Being….
I love it when a plan comes together.
Oh my FSM… The Onion, I love you so much.
Cool story bro, but did you note the date?
i remember reading a story form the 60’s in Dangerous Visions (i think) edited by Harlan Ellison that is similar. space faring humans have colonized the galaxy, run into god and capture him for his own good.