Remember on Tuesday when I mentioned that playing the atrocious Holosseum game in the early ’90s prompted me to realize that arcades were dead? I had a similar epiphany while reading the Space.com story “Disney’s Buzz Lightyear, Wall-E Explore Space for NASA.” Space is dead:

According to [space shuttle pilot Jim] Kelly, who spoke with collectSPACE afterwards, Disney made the right choice of characters to send to space. “I think that was a good choice on their part, given his background and his mission ‘to infinity and beyond.’ I think he was the right one to pick to go up to the space station,” said Kelly.

Kelly’s right. Thank goodness they didn’t choose a fictional character with less of a background in aeronautics. It could have been a disaster.

Note also the first comment posted to the story:

y do people like wall-e so much. it was just made by environmental freaks to show “what would happen”(supposedly) if we kept polluting the earth into thedistant future.

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having a bunch of robots as small as wall-e clean up the planet afterwards is entirely impractical!!! where would they dump the trash once their collectors got full huh???

So, yeah, the Internet is over, too. Pack it in, folks. We had a good run. See you at the wrap party.