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Assessing Asteroid Threat
Makarand writes "According to a proposal submitted to
the European Space Agency a fleet of
five mini-probes
should be sent each targeting an asteroid
considered potentially dangerous.
The mission objective will be to learn more about dangerous near earth objects so that we can plan how best to respond when under threat.
Once in space, the probes would use ion propulsion engines that provide thrust by shooting out a stream of electrically
charged particles. Power for the ion engines would be provided by ultra-lightweight solar arrays.
Each probe will carry instrumentation to learn about the physical and chemical make-up of the target. The mission would cost around $150 mil
which is quite low according to space mission standards."
Obviously, you are mistaken. Nor was I given given the appropriate currency lable, as the other commentator in this thrad stated. I assumed pounds, however, and I believe that I am correct on this. If it was based on Euro's, it would've been $107,385,043.76 USD, not $159+m USD.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured CowboyNeal community when the USDA confirmed that CowboyNeal's waist line has jumped yet again, now up to over 12 light-years. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that CowboyNeal has been bitch-slapped by 4.2 million women, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Cowboyneal is collapsing as a black hole, as fittingly exemplified by Getting anal-raped by the Goatse Guy last week.
You don't need to be a doctor to predict CowboyNeal's future. The hand writing is on the wall: CowboyNeal faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for CowboyNeal because CowboyNeal is dying. Things are looking very bad for CowboyNeal. As many of us are already aware, CowboyNeal continues to have heart attacks every day. A river of blood flows out of his ass.
CowboyNeal is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of his organs. The sudden and unpleasant anal rape of CowboyNeal can only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: CowboyNeal is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
CowboyNeal doctor Theo states that there are 7000 pounds of CowboyNeal. How many pounds of CowboyNeal would it take to feed an army? Let's see. The number of CowboyNeal versus Army Reserve posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 pounds of CowboyNeal per soldier. A recent article put CowboyNeal's artery blockage at about 80%. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 seconds left for CowboyNeal to live. This is consistent with the number of CowboyNeal Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Slashdot, abysmal business plan, and so on, CowboyNeal went bankrupt and was taken over by the SPECTRE who also have a stupid business plan. Now SPECTRE is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another weapons dealer.
All major surveys show that CowboyNeal has steadily declined in life expectancy. Cowboyneal is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If CowboyNeal is to survive at all it will be by starving himself for 6 months and living in a health club. CowboyNeal's arteries continue to clog. Nothing short of a quadruple bypass could save him at this point in time. For all practical purposes, CowboyNeal is dead.
Fact: CowboyNeal is dying
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