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Mission Accomplished: Probe Hits Comet
Yahoo news ^
| 7/3/05
| By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
Posted on 07/04/2005 4:30:19 AM PDT by Man50D
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:30:20 AM PDT
by
Man50D
To: Man50D
You can run...but you just can't hide...heh heh heh...
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:33:09 AM PDT
by
Khurkris
(Sunshine on my shoulder...sweat on my...uhh...brow..yeah...thats the ticket.)
To: Man50D
Ah, the practical applications of antibalistic trajectory physics.
We watched JPL do its thing on NASA channel over five hours ago. Are you sure no one else has posted this news?
Cool photos.
Can anybody post them?
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:40:56 AM PDT
by
patriciaruth
(They are all Mike Spanns)
To: patriciaruth
I did a title search by date and no match was returned. Also the time ticker on the page for this story showed it had been on the Yahoo website for eight minutes when I posted it to Freep.
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:46:35 AM PDT
by
Man50D
To: Man50D
And the purpose of this $333 Million experiment was......?
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:55:01 AM PDT
by
Muzzle_em
To: Muzzle_em
To see how fast a luddite goes from zero to whine in 60 seconds
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:58:11 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: Muzzle_em
And the purpose of this $333 Million experiment was......?Practice?
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:59:16 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: patriciaruth
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posted on
07/04/2005 4:59:41 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: Man50D
I'm just surprised another space buff didn't post the news earlier.
I tried to find the photos of the explosion on the comet when the probe strike occurred, but none at Google.
Maybe I'll try Yahoo.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:01:34 AM PDT
by
patriciaruth
(They are all Mike Spanns)
To: Man50D; All
FYI: Information and images from a camera aboard Deep Impact's impactor and flyby spacecraft can be watched in near-real time at
www.nasa.gov/deepimpact.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:03:15 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: Crazieman
nasa.gov
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:08:49 AM PDT
by
patriciaruth
(They are all Mike Spanns)
To: Muzzle_em
And the purpose of this $333 Million experiment was......? To continue to train a pool of scientists whose brains we can pick for anti-balistic missile trajectory physics and computer programming of same.
If you want the scientists there when you need them really badly, you have to give them toys to play with until they are really badly needed, so they'll be up on their game when push comes to shove.
Besides, blowing up things in space is fun.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:12:50 AM PDT
by
patriciaruth
(They are all Mike Spanns)
To: Man50D
But the leftists say, you cant hit a bullet with a bullet.
To: Muzzle_em
And the purpose of this $333 Million experiment was......? The pursuit of knowledge, and well worth it.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:22:51 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: Muzzle_em
Demonstrating to the Chinese and the EU, good ole American know-how.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:26:45 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
To: backhoe
Cool! Thanks for the Link!
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:29:46 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!)
To: patriciaruth
If you want the scientists there when you need them really badly, you have to give them toys to play with until they are really badly needed, so they'll be up on their game when push comes to shove.Best answer I've heard!
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:36:34 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Man50D
"A lot of people said we couldn't do this or wouldn't be able to pull it off," The same crowd which said our ballistic missile defense system wouldn't work, perhaps?
To: Man50D
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:38:19 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Muzzle_em
...And the purpose of this $333 Million experiment was......?...This was a proof-of-concept test. This shows we can hit a comet or asteroid with a nuclear warhead if need be.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:41:59 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading)
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