McSweeney’s nails delicate sensibilities with a sledgehammer of satire.
“By now you’re probably wondering what this is all about, why FBI agents pulled you out of your barista job, threw you on a helicopter, and brought you to NASA headquarters. There’s no time, so I’ll shoot it to you straight. You’ve seen the news reports. What hit New York wasn’t some debris from an old satellite. There’s an asteroid the size of Montana heading toward Earth and if it hits us, the planet is over. But we’ve got one last-ditch plan. We need a team to land on the surface of the asteroid, drill a nuclear warhead one mile into its core, and get out before it explodes. And you’re just the liberal arts major we need to lead that team.”
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H.T. to Never Yet Melted. (Note: Never Yet Melted has the best tagline on the web. I’m just sayin’.)
Adaptive Curmudgeon 
“Never Yet Melted has the best tagline on the web. I’m just sayin’.”
Agree.