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Science
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Written by Mark D
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 This week NASA launched a space probe called 'Deep Thrust-bin' which aims to collide with an asteroid an estimated 1,000,000,000mm away - the probe is designed to smash into the asteriod at an astonishing 35mph. A NASA spokesman explained 'The modified standard household dustbin used for the mission will be reinforced with hardened cardboard required to absorb the massive impact.'
Bruce Willis has been keen to sit on the nose of the dustbin during the mission and, in his words, 'try and save the world' (he did clarify that the world outside of 'America' would have to find their own saviour).
If the mission is successful, it is planned that thousands more dustbins will be blasted into space hopeful to find a land of plenty and in their own words 'hopefully more rubbish to breed on.'
Meanwhile Sylvester Stallone, not to be out done, has offered to sponsor the migration of rusty bins who feel neglected, they will have a small computer on board at a cost of fifty pounds per bin. With the information they send back he aims to compile a report into 'why they (NASA) throw billions of dollars into space'
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