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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. Re:first post! nt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Should I eat it?

  2. Un-Funny Military Applications: China and NASA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    NASA should safeguard the technology for aiming a small projectile at another flying projectile. This technology is precisely what is used by the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). If the Chinese gained access to this technology, via their Taiwanese spies at American national laboratories, then the USA would be in grave trouble.

    Why? The Chinese would then be able to develop methods of defeating our proposed anti-missile shield that we are developing with Japan, Australia, Canada, and England.

  3. If only linux was there... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    That piece of shit OS would crash itself into the comet.

  4. The deductive reasoning IQ of slashdot by ThoreauHD · · Score: 0, Troll

    42.

    I see lots of posts of the IQ deficient saying that this project is a waste of money. Tell me, when NASA has no money, why would they "waste" it by smashing copper into a near orbiting asteroid?

    Answer this you fucking myopic retards and you've gotten your answer.

    Align this with the fact that the US, EU, and Australia began building asteroid intercept craft's in 1999. You kids really have short memories and attention span's.

    You will notice a correlation here that we are about to get smacked and that this information is being withheld so you fuckers can continue to do what you are told. Squeel little piggies.

  5. Still no cure for cancer... by dan2cool2486 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cant cure cancer. Cant cure AIDs either. Cant kill terrorists. But hell, lets blow up some comets!

  6. Waste by defrabelizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    what a waste of a perfectly good spaceship, and several million dollars.