Guilty Thought of the Day

(Photo: Spike Dennis)

Kenneth Chang, writing in the N.Y. Times about recent findings from the planet Mercury:

Mercury is as cold as ice.

Indeed, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a lot of ice — 100 billion to 1 trillion tons — scientists working with NASA’s Messenger spacecraft reported on Thursday.

Sean C. Solomon, the principal investigator for Messenger, said there was enough ice there to encase Washington, D.C., in a frozen block two and a half miles deep.

My first thought: encase Washington in miles-deep ice? — let’s do it!