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To: EveningStar
"These are the snows of yesteryear," Tyson said of the Oort cloud. "Drifting mountains of ice and rock, the preserved remnants of the birth of the solar system."

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! We've visited three comets, slammed a 643 pound mass of copper into one, and flown by several more including Halleys. . . NOT ONCE has any ice or water been observed or found. None. Zip! NADA! The closest was the observation of some hydroxyl radicals (OH) released when the Deep Impact probe impacted Comet 9P / Tempel in amounts less than 1/100th the amount expected for H2O. Yet there was no water at all. In fact, except by orbit, every comet was essentially indistinguishable from every asteroid we've visited, flown by, or probed.

But her is Tyson, nine years later, ignoring all the results of those fly-bys, touch-downs, and the impact and STILL talking about "ice and rock mountains!" That theory has been FALSIFIED! In spades!

I expect current science from this "update," not a rehash of discredited, old theories.

6 posted on 03/24/2014 11:04:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

This show is not about real science


8 posted on 03/24/2014 11:28:49 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Swordmaker
Where are you getting the "no water" idea?

From Wikipedia's Deep Impact article:

A total of 5 million kilograms (11 million pounds) of water[36] and between 10 and 25 million kilograms (22 and 55 million pounds) of dust were lost from the impact.[34]

Reference 36 is to a BBC news item, "Impactor ejects mighty water mass"

9 posted on 03/24/2014 11:54:57 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Swordmaker
But everybody knows that comets are just "dirty snowballs".

Just like there is a "dark side" of the moon.

10 posted on 03/25/2014 1:03:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Swordmaker

Don’t let FACTS get in the way of the official narrative!


13 posted on 03/25/2014 6:58:03 AM PDT by left that other site
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