First Quad G5 shipments confirmed by NASA

For some good Sunday humor, I stumbled on a spoof post over at Macenstein claiming that NASA has spotted the first dual core dual G5 PowerMac in a city in Illinois. A mock thermal image "confirms" the location, while a NASA rocket scientist warns the machine is only running in sleep mode, and that no one knows what could happen if the owner were to start it up to check email, let alone render a scene from Maya.

While this is pretty funny, I really think Fabienne was on to something when she posted about liquid cooling systems causing shipping delays. The dual 2.7 2.5 PowerMac G5 was the first to have a cooling system, and now they've stuffed the equivalent of four G5's into the same box? I'd be surprised if Apple didn't just take a cue from the Best Mac Ever that C.K. found and started using refrigerators as the new PowerMac cases. Now that would be a real innovation.