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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. first post! nt by vveak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  2. first willis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sending Bruce Willis to do his duty!

  3. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok that Family Guy joke has gone a little too far.

  4. 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.
  5. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Family Guy joke? You must be new here.

  6. 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...

  7. 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.
  8. 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?

  9. Re:In Soviet Russia... by ValiantSoul · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've been here for about two years, the first time I actually saw this joke was when it said In Soviet Russia car drives you, which is a line from Family Guy. I just assumed someone thought it was funny and kept going with it

  10. Re:In Soviet Russia... by dukeisgod · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing tops the original Soviet Russia jokes, about television watches you and party can always find you.