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9.73% Chance That US Spy Satellite Will Crash on or Near a Human Being

Duck and cover boys and girls. A broken-down photo-recon satellite the size of a shortbus has had it with piping close-ups of the blinding bald patches of C.I.A. operatives into their own Blackberries as they distribute Kalashnikovs and crack to third-world babies. [Phew.]

The disillusioned satellite is reported to have given its entire record collection to an obsolete cellphone satellite and seems to be inching ever closer to the precipice of uncontrolled reentry.

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