NOTE FROM KIM:

With NASA funding, the InterPlaNetary (IPN) Internet
will roll out in pieces over the next several decades
to support communications among spaceships, robots and
manned and unmanned outposts in the solar system.

The Top 9 Signs the
Internet Has Gone Interplanetary

9> Now NASA astronauts don’t have to choose between an exciting and career-building ride into space on top of a giant flaming bullet, or downloading porn.

8> Aliens will judge our development by reading posts from AOLers, and wipe us out.

7> Comets slow down by almost fifty percent during peak usage hours.

6> Downloading porn takes much longer now, with most alien women having four breasts.

5> All the Dancing Hamsters now have brow ridges and pointed ears.

4> The Hubble Space Telescope now pointed towards Earth, gathering voyeur pics of topless sunbathers.

3> Make Money Fast! Turn six pieces of gold-pressed latinum into six thousand in just ten centons!

2> That newly discovered ring circling Pluto? Yep, made up entirely of AOL Free Trial CDs.

and the Number 1 Sign the Internet Has Gone Interplanetary…

1> Email filled with incomprehensible mumblings from species that bear no relationship to your own. Wait a minute…

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Credits:

Selected from 31 submissions from 11 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Dawson Rambo, Santa Rosa, CA — 1
Joe Terranova, Lake Orion, MI — 2
Arthur Levesque, Laurel, MD — 3, 8
Bruce Kane, Coraopolis, PA — 3
Jack Scheer, Falls Church, VA — 4, 7
Barry Wallace, Knoxville, TN — 5, 6
Dave Storrs, New York, NY — 9
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List moderator