LOL, what a shame. What with Comet ISON right there, and all those snapshots by Deep Impact of it that can’t be processed now because of... well... lessee... a month ago there just wasn’t enough money to hire a person to process the data, then a week ago that dang main computer went on the fritz, and now, well now it’s just “sad” that the gizmo “couldn’t complete it’s final mission.” And a away it goes, swirling down the memory hole.
Meanwhile, behind Door 221B at JPL, a new transceiver code is being used to communicate with Deep Impact. No one know what the downlaoided data looks like, but shouts and cries are heard from behind the door, and a carton of smelling salts was just delivered to the scientists by armed guards...
Yeah, it’s a shame we all died last year when Elenin killed us all.