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Deep Impact Blasts Off For Comet Tempel 1
Wynken de Word writes "NASA's Deep Impact, a copper-fortified, comet-busting spacecraft, was launched Wednesday afternoon. 'NASA had a single second - at precisely eight seconds past 1:47 p.m. - to send Deep Impact on a 431-million-kilometre, six-month voyage to Comet Tempel 1.' The goal is to blast a big hole in the comet and check out what's preserved inside. Also see the Deep Impact site."
Where is Bruce Willis when you need him.
Wont the inhabitants of this comet regard this as an act of war?
That or nougat and caramel.
Good to see that for once a crash-course is intentional for NASA. Mayhap they have found their niche... :)
The goal is to blast a big hole in the comet and check out what's preserved inside.
Is that what has happened to the goatse-guy?
Doh!
I don't know if they will find rock or not. I looked inside of my can of Comet(TM) and all that is inside is some greenish white cleanser.
The impactor will disintegrate instantly when it hits, as will its small payload, a compact disc containing more than 500,000 names of people who wanted to vicariously tag along.
Man, I want to be on that CD!
"NASA had a single second - at precisely eight seconds past 1:47 p.m. - to send Deep Impact on a 431-million-kilometre, six-month voyage to Comet Tempel 1" Missing this window of oportunity will prevent the residents of ISS their yearly alotment of ice, a necessary precursor for snowcones.
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Does anyone else find it disturbing that NASA named a mission aimed to penetrate a comet after a [bad] movie about a comet penetrating the Earth?
I guess it's better than Armageddon - they probably couldn't get funding for that one.
There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
Rock.
M$'s sense of morality.
Linux community's sense of Joe6Pack Useability(tm)
A chewy creamy center
Very rarely is anything complex answered once and for all.
Obviously you don't read the Weekly World News.
BTW, chief NASA engineer Bat Boy assures me that everything is going as planned.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
There is another slightly smaller comet inside...
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
It means the rocket blue screened and rebooted inself into safe mode. Unfortunately as a result of this it's only going to send back images at 640x480.
Rock, ice, a funny little guy with a trojan helmet (squashed by the probe), a dog with a trojan helmet, a gumball machine full of instant martians and MSG.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Temperature sensor eh? I think the probe is getting cold feet. "You want me to what?!"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
It's the ultimate disc of greatest hits.
Deep Impact - $330 millon dollars and it looks like a vibrator...Where the fuck are the jokes?
And what would be wrong with that?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If the aliens from the comet come and start killing the folks named on that CD, I'll just have to hope that my cow orkers mispelled my name, as usual.
See what I've been reading.