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Space Banana to Soar Over Texas

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In an art installation sure to launch a thousand UFO conspiracies, Montreal artist Cesar Saez plans to send a 1,000-foot helium blimp in the shape of a banana into low Earth orbit over the Lone Star State.

If everything goes right, the fruity dirigible, known as the Geostationary Banana Over Texas, should launch in August 2008.

The astrofruit is an artistic commentary on the absurdity of American politics -- especially Texan-style kookiness, says Saez.

"I see Texas like a crossroads of important social and cultural happenings in the states and in the world," he says. [...]

Yes, yes, thank you for an "honor" that is derived from stereotypes and achieved by producing visual pollution for us astronomy types. Texas *has* some of those ya know. (*sigh* George W. Bush has done more damage to the image of this state and it's diverse people than film and television stereotypes managed to do over many decades.)

P.S. Maybe I just need a powerful enough green laser. Then I can do the "typically Texan" thing and just shoot the sucker down.

P.P.S. Or we could have a party. Everyone has to dress in yellow. We'll have bananas, banana splits, bananas foster, banana shakes. And we'll drag out our telescope to look at the Giant Space Banana.

P.P.P.S. Y'all realize that it's entirely likely this whole thing is one elaborate "hoax", in that it'll never actually happen.