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Spacecraft Is on a Collision Course With a Comet, Intentionally (Happy 4th of July!)
NY Times ^
| June 28, 2005
| WARREN E. LEARY
Posted on 06/28/2005 4:43:23 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
06/28/2005 4:43:24 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Guess it's too late to strap Al Franken to it, then. *grumble*
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posted on
06/28/2005 4:46:57 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(I'm the white Christian that Howeird Dean warned you about.)
To: Sundog
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posted on
06/28/2005 4:50:03 PM PDT
by
Skylus
(Make a liberal mad today! visit this forum: http://www.network54.com/Forum/88448)
To: Viking2002
Hope they remembered to convert from centimeters to inches.
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posted on
06/28/2005 4:53:09 PM PDT
by
neodad
To: Viking2002
At last report the comet was going active - let's hope the deep impact is not obscured by a natural event.
To: Paleo Conservative; KevinDavis; Straight Vermonter; Cindy; Wiz
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posted on
06/28/2005 5:00:49 PM PDT
by
iso
To: neverdem
Are we sure we want to do this? Screwing with a comet in this manner strikes me as somewhat risky considering the I-wonder-what-might-happen factor.
I hope that the Poindexters at NASA pondered that factor...
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posted on
06/28/2005 5:03:43 PM PDT
by
yooper
(If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
To: neverdem
Did we get permission from the Watermelons?
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posted on
06/28/2005 5:08:32 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
To: yooper
I hope that the Poindexters at NASA pondered that factor...
Are people actually serious when they ask this question?
To: neverdem
"Spacecraft Is on a Collision Course With a Comet, Intentionally"
Charge the operator with reckless driving.
To: yooper
Are we sure we want to do this? Screwing with a comet in this manner strikes me as somewhat risky considering the I-wonder-what-might-happen factor. I hope that the Poindexters at NASA pondered that factor... Think of a washing machine smashing into Manhattan. It will be fun to see, but the magnitude of difference between the two objects is too large for any kind fo dangerous impact.
Read this:
Cosmic Crash Wont Destroy Comet or Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050628_deepimpact_effect.html
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posted on
06/28/2005 5:29:36 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sicked and tired!)
To: neverdem
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posted on
06/28/2005 5:33:20 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sicked and tired!)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; ...
How fitting that it happends on the 4
th
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posted on
06/28/2005 5:39:48 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: neverdem; yooper
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posted on
06/28/2005 6:38:28 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(John Kerry - When even your best still isn't good enough)
To: El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; ..
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posted on
06/28/2005 6:50:18 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: yooper
Screwing with a comet in this manner strikes me as somewhat risky considering the I-wonder-what-might-happen factor. Leaves me wondering if this is not just practice for a big one coming our way.
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posted on
06/28/2005 8:57:04 PM PDT
by
lizma
To: Flyer; humblegunner; TheMom; thackney; Eaker; stevie_d_64
Comet Crasher ping!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/28/2005 11:00:24 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Three guys walked into a bar. The fourth one ducked.)
To: neverdem
What's the point of this? Why are we spending Millions - if not, Billions - on this project? I see absolutely no scientific benefit from this project.
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posted on
06/29/2005 6:15:55 AM PDT
by
BostonianRightist
(I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at.)
To: yooper
somewhat risky considering the I-wonder-what-might-happen factor.This has 'conception' written all over it. Hope no one left any DNA in the impactor.
To: BostonianRightist
It's fer the chillldrun?
I dunno - I guess someone somewhere feels compelled to waste more taxpayer dollars on foolish things.
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posted on
06/29/2005 6:28:48 AM PDT
by
ItsOurTimeNow
("Para espanol, marque el dos.")
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