According to scientists working at Johnson Space Flight Center and a Defense Department spokesman at NORAD, the Academy Awards celebration, also known as the Oscar's, has indeed not only passed out of Earth's orbit but is headed on a circuitous route which will plunge it ultimately into the sun. "The entire facility, the Kodak Theatre which housed the 77th Academy Awards, and soil and bedrock down to a depth of more than 50 meters has been thrown free of the Earth's gravitational attraction. The glamour and excitement that is the Oscar's will use the planet Venus as a gravitational slingshot, traveling out to Jupiter and using that planet's massive gravitational field to hurl it back into the sun in March of 2007."
This sort of planetary alignment rarely corresponds to Oscar night and astrophysicists are pleased that a journey that would typically take decades will be so drastically accelerated. As one JPL planetary scientist put it "You couldn't hope for a more precise trajectory for those talented Hollywood luminaries and their awards. Their final closing speed into the sun will be over 300,000 miles per hour, faster than the Voyager spacecraft ever achieved."
Chris Rock, the show's MC, quipped "Just like the Academy, gravity keeps a brother down. Oh, that's right, sorry Morgan."
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