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Cometary Fireworks Go Off Without Hitch
PingXao writes "The JPL Deep Impact mission has successfully slammed a sattelite into Tempel 1 at 23,000 mph. (37,000 kph). The autonomous navigation system was primed for up to 3 course corrections in the final 2 hours of flight but only had to execute two of them. The second was so small - expending less than a pound of propellant - that impact would have occurred without it. Initially thought to be shaped like a pickle, it came to resemble more of a banana shape as comet Tempel I drew closer. Impact was estimated to have released 19 Gigajoules of energy, or the equivalent of 4.5 tons of TNT."
No stars in the backgrounds? this most obviously be a hoax created by our American Overlords just like the moon landings! Those tricky bastards won't trick ME again!
... what did the explosion sound like.
Seems like NASA has missed the chance to answer this profound question raised by Sci-Fi enthusiast by not putting a microphone onboard the flyby probe.
NASA headshots Tempel 1 >(x.x)-
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
...te?
Bruce Willis declined to comment on his upcoming engagement, however insider sources were heard to say that he was looking forward to having a 'smashing time'.
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
http://michaelsmith.id.au
They even admited to using an AIMBOT!
Those bastards!
Pretty Pictures!
Or the equivalent of a Supersized meal from McDonalds...
Pay girls to strip!
Where was the loud, comet shattering kaboom? I'll tell you what, Mars will not be happy when they hear this, or that they didn't hear this.
Oh Well. Guess next time I will have to use an Illudium-Q-36 Space Modulator.
(toddles off)
People Talking in Movie shows.. people smoking in bed.. people voting republican.. GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Did someone think this wouldn't work?
NASA have proven quite adept at smashing space craft into various celestial bodies.
Oh hang on...maybe they weren't suppose to do that!
A Russian astrologist who says NASA has altered her horoscope by crashing a spacecraft into a comet is suing the U.S. space agency for damages of $300 million.6 93.htm
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1406
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/04/deep
-- Prem
Aiming to tweet on a rice
Sir Bedevere: ...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
King Arthur: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
(Okay! I know it is not about the Earth, but anyway...)
Insert `fortune -o` here
"Washing machine sized", they say. I'm lost, help me out here. That must be a tecchie unit of measurement that is only used internally by NASA or something. Can someone put that in terms of "Volkswagens" or "Libraries of Congress" for me?
Maybe the Unix "units" program will do it for me.
Let's see:
$ units
1989 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: washingmachine
You want: volkswagen
* 0.25
/ 4
You have: washingmachine
You want: librariesofcongress
* 0.0001
/ 10000
Ah, now I can visual it.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Is this the day the comet people, after an uprovoked robotic suicide bombing, begin their war on the people of earth? After all, the freedom of the Oort cloud is at stake.
My God, it's full of stars...!
Tempel: 1
Impactor: 0
http://edition.cnn.com/ International headline: 'NASA probe collides with comet'
So CNN has an official policy of only providing cheesy headlines to Americans? That's a policy I can live with though.
"" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
With today being July 4'th, and with this great accomplishment, it's time for a rousing chorus of:
America, FUCK YEAH!!!
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
Fixed point in space?
I think we have a potential solution to all those orbital corrections on the ISS. We simply need to find one of those "fixed points in space" and anchor the station to one, thus keeping it forever still. Additionally, we'll be able to figure out which way the earth/sun/galaxy/universe/etc is moving once and for all once we see which way the station flies off after being anchored...
(Yes, I'm guessing (and hoping) that you were being sarcastic about that one. I just couldn't resist...)
until we send manned probes crashing into comets.
1 Kcal = 4186 J
1 Snickers contains 280 Kcal = 1172080 J = 0.00117208 GJ
19 / 0.00117208 ~ 16210.5 Snickers
So the amount of energy released is the equivalent of about 16.2 Megasnickers.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Just think of it as a rapidly-decaying orbit...
I don't know, but it crashed shortly after booting up.
(Thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the Veal.)
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
>> This is quite likely the finest result Nasa has had for a long time.
> Ignoring a couple of rovers on Mars...
Apparently NASA reused, in this impactor, software they had for the Polar Lander.
har har.
(And, as a repentant soul, congratulations NASA on this great bull's eye).
That goes without saying. Recall the law on the shape of flying food.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
I took a look at that website and I can see that they're a bunch of loons. It surprises me when I read websites made by someone who obviously has a good grasp on math and science, but apparently little to no grasp on reality. I find it strange that people can turn out that way.
What's the name of that condition? They can accurately calculate the energy released when they open a bottle of soda, but when they can't find a belonging of theirs, the notion that a space alien came by and collected it for testing seems just as plausible to them as the possibility that they just misplaced it. No grasp on reality.
Having destroyed our base on Tempel 1, prepare to meet the wrath of the full Saturnian space fleet.
Hmm, and I note that although you slashdotters have welcomed every other overlord, you haven't welcomed us.
We will remember that.
We brits hit Mars a few months back already!
:P
You remember - it was called "Deep doodoo" or something.