Scientist: "We Have Added the Blogosphere to Earth's Atmosphere"

Researchers at the East Mephisto Institute of Technology (EMIT) announced today that they have turned Earth's blogosphere into a new layer within Earth's atmosphere.

"It turns out there was just enough room within the thermosphere to slide the blogosphere on top of the ionosphere," said Dr. Timothy Zelony-Karandash, EMIT's director of atmospheric research.

"By using radio waves to continually transmit Internet data into the upper atmosphere, we have created a new use for old blogs. They are now helping us maintain a 'smart' -- and quite often 'not-so-smart' -- buffer between the thermosphere and the exosphere, which marks the upper limit of Earth's atmosphere," Dr. Zelony-Karandash announced.

"The new blogosphere won't provide any added deterrence against incoming meteorites, falling satellites, or North Korean or Iranian missiles," he emphasized. "But it will provide a handy new place to store the tons of digital pollution now being spewed out around our planet each day."

Eventually, solar radiation will break down the blogs. "But they will just fall back to Earth as a gentle rain of electrons," the atmospheric scientist promised. "According to our atmospheric models, the only effect we may ever notice is a slight brightening of auroras and rainbows."

--Si Dunn