It began upon a quiet night,
when Eugene held his 'scope aright,
and turned to face his long time girl,
and offered her a String of Pearls.

And as the months went rolling through,
we heard it in the Weekly News,
'The End of the World is coming soon!'
Hit Jove - then take a left at The Moon

But in the Space between the Atoms,
deep inside electron caverns,
the CyberWorld began to watch,
the Internet began to Rock

The news moved faster than a comet:
'Into Jupiter , there will plummet
a String of Pearls called SL9,
if your interested, get On-Line'

And so we watched The Watchers come
the newbies,scientists all as one
The newsmen, pranksters, jokers too
the dreamers, thinkers, me and you.

Typing, Reading, chatting, joking
that Jupiter would soon be croaking.
Another pile of stellar junk
(Although that theory was really bunk)

Excitement mounts and awe increases,
As the first pearl smashed itself to pieces
Making a plume so bright and fiery
(The animations in the library!)

The comet fragments hit the Jovian.
We got the gifs down through our Modems,
and watched the Shoes and Levy smile
with Heidi ( - her smile takes a while)

As the Jovian surface cratered
the shuttle astronauts celebrated
25 years of courage and pride
(then found out their newts had died)

now we're at the tail end
we've sent all the e-mail we had to send
we seen the spots and felt the sorrow
for SL9 , there's no tomorrow

But now its over, we can wonder
what purpose smashed the pearls asunder?
With the news, the images, you can bet :
It did wonders for the Internet!