What you should know about frog eggs in space

Fascinating article in the 5/8/11 DesNews about Hillcrest High’s “Scramble to get [African claw] frog eggs into space” raises again the critical citizenship questions. Will the tadpole be a U.S. citizen, a natural born citizen, a possible future president frog? Is the spacecraft under U.S. jurisdiction to make him a citizen automatically? What kind of birth certificate would he have, and could we trust it? Only Donald Trump knows for sure.

Is he a “natural born” citizen eligible to be president frog by reason of citizen parents? His family being African frogs raises serious questions of his parents’ citizenship. But perhaps the highest hurdle of all for him to clear is that his parents were undoubtably wetbacks. A large segment of the local population would never stand for a wetback-born president frog. My advice to Mr. Frog: forget about tangling with all these knotty American issues and run for president of the Solar System