Apparently, NASA is going to blow a stadium sized hole in a comet on the 4th of July. The spacecraft doing this will be named "Deep Impact"; apparently the fact that it has the same name as a dooms-day movie is only a "coincidence". Apparently this spacecraft will send out a "probe" that will blow the stadium sized hole, have to wonder what kind of "probe" it is, eh.
Deep Impact
by the_classicist 8 Replies latest social current
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stillajwexelder
saw a documentary about near earth objects colliding with the earth and what is being done about it on the History Channel last night - it was good but a little scary
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EvilForce
Well we have to get rid of our old nukes somehow no?
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stillajwexelder
It would be good to see the old nukes put to a useful purpose
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Pleasuredome
i hope the plan all goes to bollox
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jeanniebeanz
i hope the plan all goes to bollox
Why?
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Euphemism
I'm thinking this is just an excuse the geeks at JPL came up with so their families wouldn't give them a hard time about going in to work on July 4th...
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potleg
Hey, just hold on there...didn't old Joe Rutherford say that mankind would never be able to leave the envelope of the earth's atmosphere? Maybe all those moon landings, shuttle flights and now blowing up asteroids is fake. Somebody's telling lies...maybe it was the angels that were whispering in his ear.
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Netty
Wow, thats really interesting. Can't wait to see what happens on fourth of July.