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NASA's Deep Impact

Posted by timothy on from the metric-bathtub-or-imperial dept.

NivenMK1 writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article on NASA's plan to nail the comet Tempel 1 with a chunk of copper the size of a bathtub on July 4 this year. This copper 'bullet' is intended to strike the comet at approximately 23,000 mph and hit with a force equivalent to 4.7 tons of TNT. Scientists hope to discover what exactly the comet is made of and what changes have occurred to the outer layers with reference to the core."

3 of 314 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I don't know about you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are an american, aren't you? Destroying an entire building filled with a few hundred people in it, while actually you only want to take out one guy.

    Sounds like an Israeli tactic to me.

  2. Re:Expensive launch mass? by khrtt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know: let's send Bush to Paris, in a blob of melted down AOL demo CDs.

  3. Re:Oops by ezzzD55J · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sorry you lost John, but I thought it was funny you are now blaming Fox news and the OBL tape on your loss.

    How do you think Kerry losing caused the OBL tape and Fox news?