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NASA Prepares to Launch Comet-Buster

Posted by michael on from the where's-the-kaboom dept.

Chessphoon writes "NASA's Deep Impact, a spacecraft named after the 1998 movie, is scheduled to launch on January 12. If all goes as planned, the spacecraft will collide with Comet Tempel 1 six months later on July 4, and create a crater so that the inside of the comet can be analyzed."

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  1. Hi Mr. Comet by StarWreck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [satelite]Hi Mr. Comet! How are you today?

    [comet] Fine... who are you?

    [satelite]*points* Look! Its the good-year blimp!

    [Comet] Huh?! Where?

    [satelite]*BOOM*!!!

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    ... and in the DRM, bind them.
  2. Re:Un-Funny Military Applications: China and NASA by Dasch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, the cold war is over. My bet is that half of your computer hardware was manufactured in Taiwan.

    You Americans are the only ones that believe we (the western, "democratic" nations) actually need that thing...

  3. Re:From my super smart and beautiful girlfriend de by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    by the way, she is rubbing her breasts against myself right now, and it feels good, and at the same time she is licking my ear and at the same time she is coming up with this cool shit and .... I am going....

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    You can't handle the truth.
  4. This is off-topic but.. by mpeg4codec · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Has anyone played around with their little Java orbit simulator? It seems to me that in 2022 or so, the comet will come to a very near miss or possibly even impact with Mars. How reliable is this simulator in the long run, and how likely is it that something of that nature would occur and/or have any major effects?