posted 01-12-2009 09:18 PM               

One month from today, an astronaut will launch to the International Space Station (ISS), taking with him on the space shuttle eight endangered species chimpanzees. The apes are not part of a biological study, as NASA launched nearly 50 years ago, but are rather for dessert.

You see, the chimps are actually chocolate and by eating them, the astronaut and his fellow crew mates are helping to save real life chimpanzees here on Earth.