Presenting The Old Negro Space Program: The Shocking But False Story of America’s Blackstronauts.

Way funnier than it has any right to be — especially if you’ve seen too much Ken Burns.

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Update: This seems vaguely related, somehow. Pandagon on Intelligent Design:

You do know what evidence is, don’t you? It’s that stuff that convicts the B-list celebrities on Law & Order. Think about that . . . but on a big, global scale.

You see, one thing has nothing to do with the other — whether or not there was ever water on Mars has no bearing on if the entire planet flooded several thousand years ago. It’s not like Noah built an intergalactic starship and bumped his ass to Mars to dump off the extra water, all the while bringing the pure power of funk to benighted Martians.

And if he did, I have to rethink this whole atheist thing, because that’s sweet.

(Via Cosmic Variance, which by the way y’ should all read if you’re into sciencey stuff.)