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NASA's Deep Impact
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."
this does not sound logic at all...
if the chemical composition of the comet it is unknown, how "safe" it is to force it in an explosion with cooper...?
if it is known to be "safe" for the comet to interact with cooper in that explosion, then the chemical composition of the comet it is already KNOWN and that makes NO reason for the experiment.
sounds to me that NASA is like a little 3 years child that want's to play with fire...
I don't know, doesn't that happen all the time at Congress? Isn't that what neo-conservatism is all about?
"We don't know what'll happen, but we have faith in God, America and the Free Market - unless of course it isn't in our interest."
Seems almost refreshing after Reagan and Thatcher's "This is not happening." style of spending...
I'd rather they throw a few millions at a meteorite than countless billions at the army in the name of Peace and Democracy...
On that topic, there's a nice study floating around correlating the amount of the use of the word "Peace" used in political speeches with the subsequent use of violence against other nations... Go google if interested.
I think, therefore I am...I think.
I wonder if they realize how bad of an idea this is and what the possible future consequences are. I mean this is the kind of stupid crap that is bankrupting our country. Wake up and smell the coffee America! We are broke, and getting more so by the minute. We are just riding the wave to destruction. We are all so preoccupied with ourselves that we don't realize what we are doing to our own country. I mean let's take a look at some facts. One Hollywood is slowly being taken over by Japan. Two Chrysler is now basically owned by Mercedes Benz. The name Daimler even appears before Chrysler which should be a big wake up call. I mean come on; the automotive industry is part of what America is famous for. You know that whole Henry Ford inventing the Automobile thing. We are all so preoccupied with what other people think about us that we don't stop and think when we go to spend our money. Also, the airlines are slowly going out of business and again this is another thing America is famous for. We did invent the airplane you know for those of you that didn't pay attention in history class. Take a good look people all of the things that made America so great are in deep trouble. Then to top it off we have all of these big companies outsourcing jobs to make a better bottom line! Let get it together before there isn't any America left to save!!!!